Utah Trip Day 5

We did a lot on this day, but still didn't fit everything in that I had planned. It didn't help that in between doing these fun things Kirk was talking to or on hold with the insurance company. I have a friend in Salt Lake that is a Urologist. Convenient, right? Seriously, love her and am so grateful for her help through all this. She wanted to do a procedure to actually take out my kidney stone so that I didn't have to worry about it driving home alone with the kids, but the insurance company was saying no, I had to come back to CA. Kirk was pretending to be in CA and not in SLC with me and able to bring me home so they could see the importance of me getting this done while there. No such luck. They wouldn't budge. So, this was all going on while doing these fun things...

The movie at the Joseph Smith Building was on the Prophet Joseph Smith's life. It was very interesting and the kids were really good through the 68 minute movie! So grateful for these wonderful depictions of the history of our church. And even more grateful for Joseph Smith. He was truly an amazing person!

We then went over to see Brigham Young's house. In all the times I've been to Salt Lake I've never done this tour! Beautiful home!

In the grounds around the home.

Right after taking this picture we ran into a former past singles warder of mine, Don Love. He sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and invited us to a concert of theirs on Friday night. Said he would leave tickets at will call. So nice and we were excited to go! Too bad things went South and we weren't able to use them.

View from on top of the Church Office Building (another first for me)

View of the top of the Conference Center

The Capitol Building

We toured the Conference Center, which was very good!

Went over to temple square and found this new model in one of the visitors center. So neat that the kids (and everyone else) can see what the inside looks like.

Temple Square

Inside the Tabernacle

Still wanted to do the Church History Museum, but not enough time. We had tickets to the Angels minor league, The Bees. So, we went to dinner and made it just in time for the first batter.

Reggie Willits. Kirk's "favorite" player (said very sarcastically). He finally got sent back down and we were able to see him.

It rained a little towards the end of the blow-out game (12-3). Bee's lost, but we had fun!

Tamara called while we were doing Temple Square to tell us that her youngest, Thatcher had the stomach flu. Lovely. My first thought was Avery or Devin will get it and most likely it will be Avery. She's very susceptible to sickness. So, we were sure to stay away for as long as possible. Gone the entire day and not back until almost 11:00...I think we accomplished that. Great day!