The Extended Adventure

This year I asked Derek if we could extend our car show adventure and stay in Salt Lake overnight and walk around temple square on Saturday before heading home.  I thought we needed a break, and I also thought it turned out well.

We went to Chili's for dinner and I found a sandwich that was delicious while Derek enjoyed some ribs.  Saturday we had breakfast at the hotel and discovered that instead of waffle makers, they had pancake making machines.  Naturally, we had pancakes so we could watch it work!  There were eggs and sausage and gravy and biscuits too.  Then we checked out of the hotel, put our stuff in the car, and went walking.  Our first stop was The Church History Library where we watched a short film on what is done there and had a little tour.  Next we went to The Conference Center, which is huge.  We even got to go outside on the roof / gardens.  It's been a lot of years since we've been up on top of the building and the trees have grown since then.

I wanted a picture by the giant statue of Joseph Smith to send to my parents.  We had just finished lunch in the Nauvoo Cafe that you can see in the background.  I had turkey pot pie.  Derek had a triple cheese grilled cheese with bacon on it.  I couldn't eat all of my pot pie and so Derek decided to try it.  He doesn't usually like turkey pot pie, but he liked this one!  He knew it had some spice in it besides just pepper that he liked but he wasn't sure what it was.

We headed upstairs (This was in the Joseph Smith Building) and found another nice lady to give us some information.  As we were headed in to see the chapel she suggested that if we hadn't eaten we should have the turkey pot pie because it had sage in it and is really good.  Wasn't that nice of her to answer our question without being asked? 
Above you can see the organ.  The ebony and ivory is reversed!  

I wanted a picture with all of the Joseph statues so I ran back to get a selfie with this one.  He's holding an axe, but you can't see it because I was standing too close.

We walked by temple square and saw that they had started taking out the south visitors center, and we walked in to Deseret Book which has been totally changed since we went with the kids last year!  There was an entire Crumble Cookie shop inside!

On the way to the car we walked through City Creek Mall including walking through the bridge that crosses the street and gives a great view for a long ways!  It was really nice to get away for a while and just enjoy walking around.  It was also nice to come home.