Cemetery Romping

I read an article about someone who went to the Salt Lake City Cemetery and looked for the Prophets and Apostles. I thought that sounds very fun. So we did it. One of the favorite memories I have of our trip is stopping the car and everyone piling out of the car and taking off in different directions. I would hear, I found Pres ________ come and see. I found Elder _______ come and see. The interesting thing was there was a lightening storm and a bad wind blowing but we just kept running through the graves finding people and taking pictures.

Some graves we snapped a picture and we were off to find the next one. Others who we had known and loved we lingered a bit and said a silent thank you for the influence they were in our lives. Some people we looked for were people we had heard about our whole lives.

If you happen to find yourself with a few hours with nothing to do check out the Salt Lake City Cemetery and pick up a "Prominent People of the LDS Church map." You too will find yourself running and announcing look who I have found!

Mike and Alyse went up to the Olympic Venue in Park City and got a small taste of what was up there. We tried to take the kids on Saturday but they had a special thing going on and we didn't want to pay their going price. So we tried again on Tuesday and were able to get on a tour of the Venue. For those of you who live there and haven't done this you need to take your kids and do it. It is very interesting and you might even have time to take a zipline or two. Perhaps you would like to make a run down the bobsled track. Yes you can do those things. It is a bit pricey but I am sure worth every penny. So much to do and so little time and money do to do it in.

This is the home to a few countries who train for winter skiing type activities. But you can take a tour that doesn't cost very much and they will show you the bottom of the slopes and then the top. You will see the bobsled run, the skeleton and the luge runs. You will stand up at the top of the 120 and 240 ski jumps. One interesting fact we learned is they start to train kids at age 4-6 for the ski jumping sports. Kids that young aren't afraid and when they tell them to jump the only question they ask is how far. So by the time kids are 9-11 they are jumping from the 120 and 240 hills. Amazing and must cost a fortune!

Makes you proud to be an American. It was a great day to be in Park City!