Saturday, the 14th we went on a fun family outing. We left early Saturday morning for Salt Lake. Our first stop was at a Denny's in downtown for breakfast with a girl Luke taught on his mission 10 years ago. Her name is Angela Charles. It was really neat visiting with her, especially for Luke, as he took a stroll down memory lane reminiscing about all the people he loved so much.
After breakfast (it was noon by now! haha) we went to the Dickens Festival at the South Towne Expo Center. Basically, it was like regular expo with booths selling fun things, but it was all decorated like old 1800 London. The merchants were all dressed in costume and we got to see Father Christmas (from afar--hello long line!, watch "Scrooge," and taste lots of yummy food samples) It was a lot of fun... not exactly like what we imagined, but it was fun and worth going to.
In the Stocks
After about 4 hours of that we left and ran to JC Pennys and Target for some tail end Christmas shopping..... we made ourselves some PB&J's in the car and headed off to catch the TRAX train, TEMPLE SQUARE BOUND.
I am pretty sure every other person in Utah thought it was a good night to go to Temple Square too. It was ridiculously busy! We even ran (quite literally) into my brother in law and sister and their family at one of the visitor centers. We had no idea they were even going to be there.
Without further ado, here are the billion pictures we took that night. (and yes, Luke was with us... he just was in a "I'm the photographer, not a photographee" kinda mood)
Waiting for the train
The kids thought it was pretty cool we were going to ride Trax.
what a silly girl.
We love watching the Nativity. It was our first stop at Temple Square
As we were leaving Temple Square we ran into Santa and Buddy the Elf.
It was on exhausting, but WONDERFUL day.
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