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Salt Lake City and fun times!

April 28, 2014 by shelley

We arrived in Salt Lake City and knew we would have to wait a few minutes at the airport before our ride arrived.  The Salt Lake airport is not a bad place to spend a few extra moments…it is a place you can witness a moment (and secretly share) the joy and happiness of perfect strangers.

We watched families welcome home and joyfully celebrate their returning missionary.  These missionaries were returning home after serving a two year mission somewhere in the world for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). They had not seen their families for that entire time.  Only Christmas and Mother’s day are they allowed to call home.  Weekly emails were their only form of communication.  Cheers would erupt as a young man in a suit would appear at the top of the escalator and slowly descend to the waiting group below.  The cheering would continue, signs would wave and people would jump up and down.  But when the young man reached the bottom, and it never failed, the first person he would embrace was obviously his mother.  It was always a long, sweet and very emotional embrace.  And then his dad would receive a big hug.  And then siblings would “glom” onto him and  create a mass hug.  Other relatives and friends followed.   So very heart warming.  We knew no one, spoke to no one, but we witnessed, shared and thoroughly enjoyed, the sheer joy and happiness of perfect strangers watching their sons come home from their missions at the Salt Lake City airport.

Joyful reunions at the Salt Lake City Airport

Joyful reunions at the Salt Lake City Airport

And then it was on to other activities and a full few days we enjoyed with Jen, Adam and kids in Salt Lake City.

It was a busy time in Salt Lake City.

One of the reasons we came to Salt Lake City was to see the kindergarden production of Mother Goose nursery rhymes.   More specifically the Queen in Sing a Song of Sixpence.  We had to see her in the parlor eating bread and honey!

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The Queen!

The Queen!

 

The Queen awaits

The Queen awaits

 

The Queen shows us her classroom.

The Queen shows us her classroom.

 

We spent a fun day at This is The Place Heritage Park.

First a quick look at the map…

looking at map

looking at map

 

One of the things Becca, Henry and Caroline were excited to show us were the baby animals.  First stop the baby chicks.

Henry, Becca, Caroline, Bob and Myself viewing the baby chicks at Heritage Park SLC

Henry, Becca, Caroline, Bob and Myself viewing the baby chicks at Heritage Park SLC

Becca holding a baby chick

Becca holding a baby chick

Bob holding a baby chick for Caroline

Bob holding a baby chick for Caroline

Henry holding a baby chick

Henry holding a baby chick

Henry,  Becca and Myself at the baby chicks

Henry, Becca and Myself at the baby chicks

Becca and myself with the baby chicks

Becca and myself with the baby chicks

Next stop the baby goats.

Becca and Caroline with baby goats

Becca and Caroline with baby goats

Becca and Caroline with baby goats

Becca and Caroline with baby goats

Becca with the  baby goat

Becca with the baby goat

Caroline feeding the baby goat

Caroline feeding the baby goat

And of course the pony rides!

Craft making:

Making an Easter Craft

Making an Easter Craft

Making a craft at This is The Place Heritage Park

Making a craft at This is The Place Heritage Park

Henry's craft

Henry’s craft

The blacksmith…

Visit to the blacksmith shop

Visit to the blacksmith shop

The rope maker…

Becca and Henry helping make rope

Becca and Henry helping make rope

Henry and Caroline watching Becca make rope

Henry and Caroline watching Becca make rope

Tooling leather…

Becca showing her tooled leather

Becca showing her tooled leather

Henry and Becca working on tooling leather

Henry and Becca working on tooling leather

Jen and Caroline tooling leather

Jen and Caroline tooling leather

Henry, Caroline and Becca working on their leather.

Henry, Caroline and Becca working on their leather.

Train rides…

Jen and Caroline  taking a little train ride

Jen and Caroline taking a little train ride

Train ride

Train ride

 

But we came for gold, so pan for gold we did!

Becca panning for gold

Becca panning for gold

Gold Rush!

Gold Rush!

Caroline panning for gold.

Caroline panning for gold.

Caroline panning for gold.

Caroline panning for gold.

Henry and Becca hard at work.

Henry and Becca hard at work.

Henry finding gold

Henry finding gold

Henry counting his gold.

Henry counting his gold.

Jen, Caroline and Becca at the stream.

Jen, Caroline and Becca at the stream.

And we struck “GOLD”!

Gold!

Gold!

and Brigham’s doughnuts

Becca enjoying a Brigham doughnut

Becca enjoying a Brigham doughnut

 Brighams Donuts

Brighams Donuts

And then it was time to go.

Jen and Bob

Jen and Bob

We enjoyed seeing friends.

Lunch with Carole and Sam Cowley

Lunch with Carole and Sam Cowley

We built recycling trucks at Lowe’s.

Building at Lowes

Building at Lowes

Becca building at Lowe's

Becca building at Lowe’s

Becca building at Lowe's

Becca building at Lowe’s

Henry

Henry

Caroline

Caroline

Building team

Building team

Building at Lowes

Building at Lowes

Henry

Henry

Ballet class.

Becca at ballet.

Becca at ballet.

Soccer game.

Henry at soccer game.

Henry at soccer game.

Caroline enjoying soccer game.

Caroline enjoying soccer game.

We checked out Adam’s office.

Daddy's office

Daddy’s office

Went to City Creek.

City Creek

City Creek

And played in the park.

Caroline

Caroline

Becca

Becca

Henry

Henry

Caroline

Caroline

Becca

Becca

Bob watching Becca

Bob watching Becca

Adam helping Caroline

Adam helping Caroline

Henry and Caroline

Henry and Caroline

Henry and Caroline

Henry and Caroline

Henry

Henry

Becca

Becca

Henry

Henry

Becca

Becca

Becca and Caroline

Becca and Caroline

Jen helping Caroline

Jen helping Caroline

All in all a busy wonderful time!!

Filed Under: Church, Family, Friends, Travel Tagged With: Adam, baby animals, Becca, Caroline, Henry, Jennifer, missionaries, panning for gold, park, pony rides, Salt Lake City, soccer game, This is the Place Heritage Park, tooling leather, Utah

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