Spring Break Salt Lake

When we lived in CA we used to love going downtown to visit Nathan at work and to go out to lunch together. So with time off from school, for spring break, we drove to Salt Lake City and went into the State Capitol to continue our lunch out with Dad tradition. We enjoyed the gorgeous weather on our walk down from the Capitol.

My boys love water features!

Temple square was beautiful.

Liam Joseph next to his namesake Joseph Smith.

And here's our Daniel in the lion's den.

I couldn't help myself. Every mom needs a ring around the rosie picture infront of this statue!

We had lunch at City Creek Mall. It was really busy and really beautiful. We followed the creek, but didn't actually go in any stores--just the food court. The boys loved watching the fish.

After lunch, Nathan hiked back up to the Capitol and I took the boys to the interactive kids' area in the Church History Museum.

The boys got to help build and sail Nephi's ship.

They did some fishing from the ship.

They translated and handled the gold plates. They built temples,

They rode missionary bikes,

Liam had some fun with puppets....Don't you love Liam's expressions?!

Worked the primary children's song turntables,

Planted and harvested gardens, Prepared a missionary feast,

Made pioneer buzzsaw toys, Sounded the trump (the boys thought it was so cool to see how big the angel Moroni on the temple actually is),

More Daniel in the lion's den, Looks like Caleb is one up on the lions!

On our way out, we went to the Visitor's Center. They have a really neat 3-D map of Christ's final week. It had been a long day, but the boys didn't want to leave until they got to see each of the areas located in Holy Week. I think that needs to be our new Easter tradition.

To be honest, I thought I'd have to carry Caleb the whole way back up the hill to the Capitol, or possibly call Nathan to rescue us in his vehicle. But the boys were troopers. They made it the entire way.

One more lion photo op. We played hard and Caleb was asleep just a minute after climbing back into the car. What a fun day. There is so much to see, so close to Nathan's work. There will be many more lunch outings in the future.