We started the day with Kneaders unlimited french toast for breakfast. The restaurant was packed, but we were still able to get our fill. Although we did have to wait in line for about 15 minutes waiting for a refill on the french toast...
After breakfast we ran home, showered, packed a lunch and drove to Salt Lake. Once we were in Salt Lake we toured the visitors center and took a few moments to sit and ponder in front of the Christus.
We then attended a session at the Salt Lake Temple. What a gorgeous temple!!
Photos courtesy of Dallin... he's quite the photographer. :)
After the session we walked around temple square a little more, and were pretty much the only people around because it was raining pretty hard. We did see one bride and groom trying to get wedding pictures... I felt so bad for them!
After I was sufficiently froze from walking around, we went back to the car and got our not-church clothes (which were much warmer.) We then toured the new City Creek Center in downtown Salt Lake. It is so beautiful! There are waterfalls, fountains, trees, and even fish! We had a great time going in all the stores (I especially loved looking at all the baby girl clothes in Baby Gap and Gymboree!)
After a few hours of walking around and sight-seeing, we ate our lunch and then headed back to the tabernacle on temple square. On Thursday nights starting at 8pm the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has practice that is open to the public. It was incredible to listen to them! And it was quite entertaining to see the choir director interacting and critiquing/mocking them. We had a grand time!
Dallin and I literally could have stayed all night to listen to them sing, but we were getting a little hungry so around 9:30 we headed out to go get dinner. We ate at our favorite restaurant. The Cheesecake Factory!!
There was a surprisingly large amount of people at the restaurant for that late on a Thursday night, but we only had a 15 minute wait so I can't really complain. :) We got our favorite appetizer, Sweet Corn Tamales.
We also ordered a really delicious entree; some kind of carmel chicken dish. And cheesecake. This time Dallin and I couldn't decide on a flavor we both wanted, so we each got our own.
I picked white chocolate raspberry and Dallin chose chocolate chip cookie dough. I love how they pile on the whipped cream!! OH YES!!!
We got out of the restaurant pretty late, and had forgotten that temple square would be locked, so we had to take quite a nice stroll to get to the car, but who doesn't love a nice romantic walk, with the hubby, at night, by the temple?!
We arrived home pretty late, due to traffic and missing the Provo exit... but it just extended the already perfect day. Thanks Dallin for a wonderful trip! It was way better than Vegas! :)
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