Our first stop was down in Utah county. Amanda had to go to the dentist to get a crown replaced. By the way, if you live in Provo and are looking for a dentist I would recommend Dr. Braithwaite. He replaced the crown free of charge because our dentist in Omaha thought that it needed to be replaced (Dr. Braithwaite did the original crown). They also put a rush on the lab so that the crown would be completed in one week. They were very accommodating even though Dr. Braithwaite didn't fully agree that the crown needed to be replaced. Anyway, back to the main story. Since we were down in Provo we had a fun time visiting BYU campus. It was fun to see what has changed and what has stayed the same. I don't even remember what the old SFLC used to look like, but the new building is really beautiful. The computer science building hasn't changed a bit in 10 years - well, maybe the equipment inside has changed. Maybe that's the next building on their list for remodeling, although it looks like they are gearing up to redo the JKHB. We went to the BYU bookstore and the kids had a good time picking out a BYU t-shirt. We ate in the cougareat and hoped that nobody thought that we were still students.
Later on we headed up to Fruit Heights to see the Madsens in their new home. The next day we went to downtown Salt Lake to take the kids to Temple Square. We did bring our camera and then left it in the car so sadly I have no photos :(. We ate lunch at the Lion House Pantry, walked around beautiful Temple Square, and took a tour of the Conference Center. Later in the week we were joined by Mollie, Harrison, and Noah. We had some fun swimming in the yard.
We also went to the This is the Place Heritage Park. It's like a little village of Houses and historical buildings. We arrived after the activities in the buildings had closed, but we were still able to take a train ride around the park.
We saw Brigham Young's Farm House
And a number of other log cabins and other buildings.
Here are the kids in front of an old log cabin.
They had fun playing with the old fashioned toys in the general store.
They had a school with desks, slates and readers.
And a petting corral.
Our last stop was play ground of miniature cabins and houses. Rachel claimed this yellow house.
Josh liked this one.
And David rang the fire bell.
There was also this wooden train to play on.
I highly recommend visiting this park - we had a lot of fun. If you get there before 2pm there are lots of different activities. We had a great time.
The rest of trip was spent mostly relaxing and visiting other relatives. We got to see Sarah's cute house in Sugarhouse, roast smores with Richard and Ranae Mann (Amanda's aunt and uncle) and their family. Aaron and the kids went and found some geocaches. We took two days to drive home with a stop in Little America, Wyoming. It was really fun to see friends and family but we are glad to be home and glad that we won't have another loooooong road trip for a least another year!
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