Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City was next after our night in Carson City. We stayed less than 24 hours in Carson City, but got a good appreciation for the dump it is. Salt Lake on the other hand was pretty cool. We arrived fairly late and hungry, so we got dinner at a restaurant called the Red Iguana. Their specialty was mole. I got the mole negro which was made form mexican chocolate, bananas, chilies, and spices, with chicken. Not the best choice I could have made. Butros got the mole verde which was made from green chilies, spices, and avocado(a better choice). Matt got the Red Iguana sampler which was also delicious, rumor has it. We then went back to the hotel where we observed a scene by the pool reminiscent again of a Mel Gibson classic, Thunderdome. Chaos was erupting along the concrete as two children went nuts in the water. It was as if the forty guests staying at the hotel with us had never seen a swimming pool before.

The next morning (a Sunday) we went to an aviary in Liberty Park. There were many native and exotic birds, but the shimmering gem of the morning was The Bird Show. Arguably the best bird show in Salt Lake City. Birds would fly one direction, and before you knew it, they would fly another!

We then got a delicious lunch at Squatters Brewery. I highly recommend it if you're in Salt Lake City, but if you go and don't like it you only blame yourself since you went based solely on my very inexpert and unqualified recommendation.

We then went to Temple Square. Obviously there was a heavy Mormon overtone throughout the Temple Square area(the headquarters for the LDS church). We saw the cathedral and the Bee house( where Brigham young lived). We then went into the tabernacle, where the Mormon choir rehearses and preforms and met Sister Austin and Sister Woo, missionaries in Salt Lake City. They explained about the tabernacle and the church of Latter-day Saints and tried to help us join. We explained that we had dinner reservations and couldn't stay.

We traveled next to the Clark Planetarium. This was recommended by most travel sites. It looked like a fun and interesting place for younger children. While there we found a kiosk for a movie theater next door. We got tickets to see the Hangover 2, which was really funny, but a lot like the first one as far as plot twists and layout.

We had dinner at another brewery, called the red rock brewery(far worse than Squatters).

We wanted to got the the family heritage library to research our genealogies but since it was a Sunday this was closed.

We left the next morning after getting another oil change for Yellowstone.