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Pictures: Sightseeing
We've never done much sightseeing at conventions because Roger was always too busy with meetings. But this year we were able to spend 2 days visiting various points the mountains, both east and west of the Salt Lake valley. Wasatch: Sundance. Park City; closer to Salt Lake: Kennicott Copper Mine; and in Salt Lake City: Mormon Temple.
This was our first stop on the first day' s bus tour: This shows Roger at a lovely "Bridal Veil Falls", this one of many throughout the USA, in the hills approaching Sundance, which is the truly beautiful rustic area developed by movie star Robert Redford.
I could not resist "publishing" this gate scene at Sundance. Although there are hundreds of photo opportunities there, this one especially caught my eye. The area features many rushing water mountain streams (heard from any point), mountains, valleys, meadows, ski lift, and a small resort with somewhat rustic cabins, many wild flowers, a restaurant, gift shop, and just one spectacular vista after another.
Here is one of those streams, with mid-morning shade and shadows . Do you hear the water rushing by?
Again another must-shoot photo opportunity (as far as I was concerned). We have a hundred more.
Roger strolling down colorful and quaint main street of Park City, the famous ski area. Souvenir shops of all kinds. you can get an ice cream cone, or you can spend $!0,000 and more, on original art. (etc.) Note the newly purchased tote bag from Sundance!
In Salt Lake City, this is the brand new Mormon Tabernacle Conference Center. It sits on adjacent property to Temple Square, and is really a "must -see" in Salt Lake City. Huge, and first-class everything. Inside there is an auditorium with cushy theatre seats for over 20,000 people. The many and vast vestibules are beautiful and accommodating for crowds. Additionally, there are meeting rooms of every kind. Things are tastefully elegant. Most of the staff is apparently volunteer lay people from the church, and there are a great many at any event; all of whom are totally congenial. We saw no uniformed guards as in other facilities. I think these civilians, stationed every several yards, do all of it, all the while smiling and courteous, making short conversations where applicable.
You see how the original Temple is now dwarfed by surroundings, many of which are also Mormon office buildings, etc. This scene is shot from the courtyard of the Conference Center, mentioned with the previous photo.
Roger viewing the Great Salt Lake. It is vast and, in some way, both unremarkable and remarkable at the same time. The tour guide referred to it at America's Dead Sea. The only thing which grows in it is brine shrimp. The salt harvest is Morton, and mostly used for water softeners and road salt. Table salt comes from elsewhere.
Theresa at the famous and huge Kennicott Copper mine. It is almost at deep as the Grand Canyon. Not as "long", or wide, though.
Another view of this vast mine. Check out the "tiny" trucks (because they are so far away), deep into it. (NOT those on the road at the bottom of photo, but down further, in two places.)
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