Temple Square

While in Utah we visited Temple Square.  It's the headquarters of the church, along with the Salt Lake Temple and some visitor centers...and a lot of other church buildings in downtown Salt Lake City.  It's a big tourist attraction for the LDS church or anyone who wants to learn about the LDS church.  Here we are on top of the convention center overlooking the Salt Lake Temple.  It was a blazing hot day! 

 

I've never seen the convention center in person before, and the roof had a lot of fountains and plants on it.  It was pretty, but so hot!  I wanted to sit in the fountains, but I think they frown on that.  Here are Uncle Cody, Matthew, Anna and Aunt Alycia (Scott's sister) looking at the fountain.

Here is a kind of dark picture of the inside of the convention center.  The LDS church holds a general conference from here twice a year.  We watch it on the internet, but you can also come watch it in person.

 Here we are down by the side of the Salt Lake Temple looking up.  It was so tall!

 Grant was warm.  We rubbed sunblock on his head which just made him look extra sweaty.

Here are Olivia, Anna and Matthew resting and having a few snacks.  Olivia (Matthew and Anna's cousin) was nice enough to share her snacks with the other kids.  I brought a few snacks too but no one wanted mine.  ;)  Olivia had the good stuff!

Inside one of the visitor centers the kids posed by the Christus statue.  It was good to see some of the things there are to see on Temple Square, although we didn't see nearly all of it!

It was so hot that we went to the shopping center across the street after and let the kids play in the fountains.  Matthew went all out and got completely wet!  I bet it felt nice.  So we didn't see everything, but we saw some and had a good time.  We need to leave ourselves more time next time we come through Utah!