Jess & Neal-ville

Reprieve, by the way, is defined as: a temporary relief from harm or discomfort.

Salt Lake City was quite enjoyable! We enjoyed the 70 degree weather and not having to wear a jacket all the time! We enjoyed the zoo, which is quite a nice one.  Whenever we are in a big city, we do make a point to visit the zoo…so we have been to a number of different ones across the country. Atlanta, Nashville, Seattle, Memphis, Knoxville…and now Salt Lake. Am sure there are other ones in there, but those are just to start.

After the zoo we went to THIS IS THE PLACE…which is it’s actual name. We were a little confused as to what the actual POINT of the place was, but we enjoyed a nice train ride so it made it worth while.  It seems like it is normally a living museum which represents what Brigham Young saw to choose Salt Lake as the final destination for the Mormon migration…but as it was ‘dead’ living museum on Sunday, we weren’t quite sure.  We then enjoyed all-you-can-eat sushi!  Which is normally a GOOD thing except Jess decided she wanted to do a MORE-than-you-can-eat sushi extravaganza.  It took a little while for her to recover…

We went to Red Butte gardens after that, which was GORGEOUSLY in bloom.  We definitely enjoyed our time there and wish we could have stayed longer.

Finally we found our way to the Salt Lake City Temple. Of course we got a tour from some of the local missionaries, and we will probably be receiving a visit from missionaries as well in Casper.

We are back to the swing of things again in Casper. Unfortunately we came back to winter weather advisory and got 4 inches of snow last night with snow throughout the day.  Have to keep checking our calendar to make sure it’s May.  Jess sure does miss the sun!  We are counting down our days until our Austin vacation…it can’t come soon enough!!!

Sun Worshiping Jess and Neal

This post finds us, as you may have guessed, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Although we will still have to catch up on what we HAVE missed posting for the past week!

Jess was originally scheduled to work this weekend, but at the last minute her boss needed to switch weekends with her.  We are still planning our trip to Austin at the end of May, but both of us just needed to get away.  Since neither of us have ever been to Utah, we decided why not visit??  Our friends had mentioned how beautiful Salt Lake was…so that’s how we chose our destination!

We got here around 4 this afternoon.  Unfortunately we were reminded that this is Mother’s Day weekend, AND the NBA playoffs are going on IN Salt Lake.  Sadly for the Jazz, they were defeated by the Lakers (which we found out afterwards).  We enjoyed dinner at an organic cafe, walked around downtown, and saw The Hubble in 3D.  To end the day, we refreshed in the La Quinta pool.  We are now relaxing with Jada and Kodak and about to go to bed so we can start early tomorrow!  We got passes to enjoy the city so we have plans to visit the Zoo, the Tabernacle…and other exciting scenes!

Traveling Jess and Neal