Salt Lake City

Well, I was home for the weekend and thought I would write about what has been happening lately since I have no internet down there yet. I settled in to my apartment and I'm quite pleased with it. It is very cute...the only bad thing is that it is on the top floor and the stairs are very awkward and tiring to go up and down. Last Monday I went to Family Home Evening and met some of the other people in my student ward. A lot of them are pretty cool...too bad I won't be to church for a couple of weeks.

My little space.

This is the little living room area. And a very little TV to fill up that big spot. And yes, notice guitar hero in the corner. :D

This is the kitchen if you can't tell. Very cute and where I spend most of my time. Not really...

Wednesday, my roommate, Haley, took me around downtown Salt Lake and we went on a few tours. First, we went to the Conference Center. There was an organ recital going on so we went to that and then went on a tour through it. There were a lot of cool pictures from the scriptures. One hallway had painted pictures of all the current members of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency. Then the next room we went in to had sculptures of all the modern-day prophets, starting with Joseph Smith and going through to President Hinkley. The next room had painted pictures of all the apostles that are moved in there once they die. Then we went on the roof. There were lots of trees and flowers. Our tour guide told us at one point that on one side of the walkway, the pine trees and other trees represented the way the area looked in the mountains and such and on the other side was a meadow with short little pine trees that represented how it looked when they arrived in the valley. I wish I would have gotten a picture of it. I don't know why I didn't!

This is the view from the top of the Conference Center.

Next stop was the Church Office Building. We went up to these little lookouts and you could see a lot of things from them. There are a few pictures that I got from up there. It was 26 stories up and it was really high...

This is the State Capitol building. It is very big and our tour guide told is it is the one that is most like the White House in D.C.

This is from the other side of the Office Building. If you follow the street to the right of the temple up past the Tabernacle, the little parking lot, and the huge parking lot, you can see LDSBC on the corner right next to the KSL building.

Last stop was the Beehive House, where Brigham Young lived. It was very cool to learn a little more about his family. They played lots of musical instruments and did a lot together as a family. The stairs were very steep, but it was a very nicely decorated house. They matched a lot of the original style and decorations.
Well, Friday I drove down to Provo and got Logan and we headed up to Shelley to go camping with his family for their family reunion. We drove to Nat-Soo-Pah over by Twin Falls and stayed there Friday night through Monday afternoon. We played a lot of games and swam a lot in the pool. The water was naturally warm. So it was very nice yesterday when it was cold. Saturday night while we were playing Settlers of Catan, a skunk came in to our campground and was TORMENTING us! We had to throw things at it to get it to go away. Then when we thought it was gone for good, it came around to the other side of us and into the pavilion we were in. It was scary, but funny! We finally just wanted the game to end so Logan's Uncle Scott gave in and gave his Uncle Jason the cards he needed to win. So we hurried and cleaned up and went to bed. Once again, I have no pictures. But it was very fun and I even made a little leather bracelet that I am very proud of.