During this trip we took over 300 pictures so here are my most favorite from around Temple Square. I can't share all because that would be to many pictures. We had a blast. The kids loved the South Visitors Center where they learned about the hisotry of the church, saw a model of the inside of the temple, The North Visitors Center let them see the spiritual aspect of the church. The kids LOVED seeing the Book of Mormon and Bible table in so many languages. They saw displays covering different sections of the scriptures and different messages.
The Jospeh Smith Building was fun to explore with the cars inside and take the elevator to the top the look over the temple grounds. The older kids enjoyed seeing how many brides they could find dressed up and getting pictures taken. At one point they found 6 couples.
The old conference center was so pretty but small compaired to the new one. The new conference center is simply amazing and can hold so many 21,000, I think they said.
But the time we were done the kids (and parents) were exhausted, after looking at the pedometer we understood why. We walked nearly 8 miles total during the day.
All the kids lined up waiting and looking for the next tram
All but one looking down the track
Our kids were thrilled to be on the tram. A new experience for them. Their cousins however, have been on the tram many times, just not with their cousins...
Arriving at our stop. Oh by the way the Olympics were held here in SLC in 2000 (see the rings)
love this statue
the kids thought this was the coolest car ever!
wow another one and both started with a crank in the front of the car. That puzzled the younger kids...
seeing the temple
Look it is Angel Moroni!
pretty pretty flowers
the boys standing so nice and looking handsome together
AWESOME shadow! I got the youngest on his uncles shoulders giving his mom a high five and the shadow was in the middle! LOVE THIS part of the picture!
This has always been my most favorite picture and I have never known why. Well I just learned that this was painted just for the World Expo in the mid 70's in Spokane Washington. I know I was there from stories I was told. Having been there, this would have been the biggest and first real picture of Jesus I would have seen as a child.
To this day this is still my most favorite painting and one I would LOVE to have a printed copy in my home with smaller pictures of my children in frames along side this one.
On top of the conference center. The inside and outside are totally amazing. The kids were amazed by the pipe organ. The tour throughout was amazing. The rooftop was even more amazing. The greenery on top is kept alive using a man made soil like product that is very light and allows for less friequent watering. The plants on the ground around temple square changed about every 6 months, however those on the conference center rooftop are watered and let to seed and pretty much do what they would in nature.
This fountain circulates the water running the waterfall falling down the side of the building
Awesome mural that sketched using sand blasting methods in the stone wall
wild flowers and grasses that would have been found along the wilderness showing visitors some of what the wagons had to roll through on the trip across.
The kids were awestruck with the Christus. Zach shispered to me "are we in heaven in this room?"
Celidah took this shot
a black and white version of the shot
a replica of the Golden Plates Ellie wanted to bring this home
The cousins descending down the temple steps oldest to youngest. Had to be quick as the littelest is quick and just wanted to run and see everything
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