Seventy-eighth Passage

Last weekend David and I took the family to Utah for a quick weekend.
David borrowed Lydia's dollar store sun glasses for part of the trip down.

We had a not so happy incident while driving. David rolled down the passenger window to throw out an apple core. But when he went to roll it up it wouldn't work! It would roll down more, but nothing could make it go up. So on we drove, freeway speeds, with horrible hot air blowing in and noise it creates. The pressure in the car was also screwy because of it, so my ears were pretty unhappy. I wasn't thrilled about the situation.
So when we stopped at a rest stop David put his handyman skills to work.

The kids ran around on the grass, terrorized and man and his dog, and got some energy out while David tinkered. It didn't take long before the window rolled up again. It didn't, however, roll down anymore, but we were just happy that it was up.

We stayed with my Aunt and Uncle who are always so nice to have us.
Saturday morning we dropped Morgan and Lydia off with their dad. They had a full day of Lagoon ahead of them.
The rest of us found a trax station, parked the car, and took the commuter train into downtown Salt Lake. Owen was apprehensive about riding a train at first, because he was sure it would be scary, but once on the train there was no more fears.

We took the boys to Temple square. We walked a lot. We toured the old Tabernacle, the new Conference Center, along with the big gardens and fountains on the roof. They got to throw coins into the fountains, though Owen refused to make a wish. :)
We spent lots of time in one of the visitors centers. I was surprised at how much the boys liked it. My patience was waning before theirs. William really liked seeing all the art work of Jesus' ministry. Owen loved outer space and the ramp to get there. Lol.

We went to the Joseph Smith memorial building. We rode the elevators to the top and looked out over the city. A cool view of the temple.
We were trying to take a picture of the whole family by holding the phone out and scrunching. Then a nice older gentleman offered to take it for us. The iphone was a little advanced for him, and our picture ended up not being great.

But because it would have seemed rued to take another one by ourselves while he was still there, we didn't get another family shot there.

We got some of the boys though.

And we had William take a picture of us.

We also watched a movie in the Legacy theater.
It was a good experience for all of us, though my poor pregnant hips and feet were quite through with the walking when we were done.

It was a good trip. Fun playing tourist, fun visiting with family, and the six hour drive was better than we expected with 4 young ones.