Salt Lake City

We are in Salt Lake City. Yesterday we toured the city.

First stop was the Natural History Museum. My kids gave me tickets for Mother’s Day.

 

 

 

 

 

We had lunch at the Garden Restaurant at the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Temple Square. 

 

 

We had a great view of the Salt Lake Temple (pretty much the center piece of Salt Lake City) from the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, where we had lunch.

 

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building is an elegant building that was originally a hotel and later was named after Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (aka Mormons).

 

We walked around Temple Square after lunch.

 

 

 

 

 

Today we took a ride out Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake. The lake is extremely low and many of the places you would expect to see water are salt and mud.

 

The day was overcast and I don’t know if it was the weather or the salt that made the unusual colors below.

 

 

 

One of the great treats on the island was the Fielding Garr Ranch that was established in 1848. It  was an active sheep and cattle ranch until 1981 when the Antelope State Park was established.