Salt Lake Trip

Friday February 11 Russell had an EMS Conference at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake so Emily and I went up with him. While he was at the conference, Emily and I had to entertain ourselves for 10 hours. We started the day by taking Russell up to Primary Children's and then we headed back to our hotel. We enjoyed the great Howard Johnson continental breakfast of Corn Flakes and bagels. While we were eating, Emily was talking to everyone she saw telling them about our room and Baby Apple and anything else she could think of. After eating, we headed back to our room to get packed. After checking out, we headed to Temple Square. Our hotel was only two blocks from Temple Square so we just walked so we wouldn't have to find a parking spot. Unfortunately we forgot Emily's stroller at home so she had to walk the entire day because I couldn't carry her.

Our first stop was the Church History Museum. It was really cool seeing all of the exhibits especially the exhibits dedicated to each of the latter-day prophets. Emily's favorite part of the Museum was the children's museum which had toys and activities and other things for her to play with. We spent a couple hours here playing.

Emily loved driving the car, checking to see if the chickens had laid eggs so she could cook them in the play kitchen, and building towers with the large foam blocks. She also liked dressing up the paper dolls, playing match game on the computers, and playing with all of the other kids.

Her favorite part of the whole museum was dressing up like Spanish dancers and dancing and twirling in her skirt. She loved dancing and as you can see she was very good at it. We danced for quite a while before Emily got tired and I realized it was time for lunch.

We headed out of the museum and went to look for somewhere to eat. I didn't want to walk forever so we went across the street to find the food court in the mall. I couldn't find it and Emily was starting to get mad because she was tired of walking so I saw a JB's right across from the temple so we went there.

After eating about half of her lunch, Emily crashed on the table and took a little power nap before we were off again. I felt so bad for her for making her walk so much and I didn't want to wake her up so we could leave so I spent a few minutes searching the Internet on my phone to see what movies were playing at Temple Square. I really wanted to see the Testaments but I could only find information on the Joseph Smith movie so we decided to go to that one. I noticed that the next showing was in about 20 minutes so I had to wake up Emily so we could leave. She wasn't too happy to be walking again so I carried her up to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building so we could see the movie. After carrying her and speed walking up a block and a half, I was sure I was going into labor because of the contractions but once we got into the theater and I sat down and relaxed, I was okay. The Joseph Smith movie was really good and I am so amazed at the great life Joseph Smith lead despite all of his trials. I really don't think I could have done what he did. I also have a greater respect for Emma Smith too. Emily liked the movie too until the prophet was martyred and then she was scared and said the movie was too scary.

After the movie, we had about a half hour before we needed to go pick up Russell so we just walked around Temple Square and looked at all of the water fountains. Emily loves water and I had to keep a careful eye on her so that she didn't fall in the water!

We also went to the North Visitor Center to see the Christus statue and while there, I noticed that the Testaments was playing in that building so we could have seen it but that is okay because the Joseph Smith movie was really good too.

On the way back to the car at the hotel, Emily was crying that her feet hurt because she had been walking all day. She was crying for daddy so he could carry her. I carried her for the last bit of the walk. I felt really bad and I am definitely not going to forget the stroller again.

Russell said he had a good time at the conference and learned a lot. He also got 9 CME hours to put toward his Paramedic license.

On the way home, we stopped at Krispy Kreme (our tradition) and picked up a couple dozen doughnuts as well as getting our free sample because the Hot Light was on! Yum... fluffy clouds with icing! Then we were on our way home and we were both so tired the drive seemed to take forever. The nice thing about it was that Emily was so tired she slept from Nephi on. We had a great time on our trip but were definitely glad to be home.