Salt Lake City: Research and Music

Since the breakfast buffet the Legacy Inn in Price advertised was a little less than interesting, we headed north on highway 6 and 89 toward Salt Lake City.  We climbed until we were well over seven thousand feet in altitude, crossing a rather impressive mountain range that was forested.  We passed ranches with beautiful horses, grasslands, and a few little towns before getting to Provo, the home of Brigham Young University.

Klep pulled into the parking lot of a place called Kneaders which advertised as a restaurant and bakery.  The aromas surrounding it told us that bread was being baked there.  We were not disappointed.  Basically, it is a fast food restaurant which features sandwiches, soups, and salads along with a wonderful selection of freshly baked pastries.  We each sampled soups:  tomato bisque for me; creamed cheese cauliflower for Klep.  Klep also had a sandwich and I had a serving of some of the best sour dough bread I've ever eaten.  We chatted with one of the workers as we were leaving and discovered this is a small Utah chain that began with the restaurant where we were in Provo and had expanded to twenty stores.  I predict that the chain will spread.  I think the food is better than Panera which generally fails to impress me.

After lunch, we headed up to where 89  joined I 15 and merged into traffic until we exited for the center part of Salt Lake City around Temple Square.  We finally found parking under the conference center and walked over to the Family History Library for an afternoon of genealogical research.  After three hours of work on the computer, in the book stacks, and on microfilm, I was no closer to finding anything else about my great-great grandfather and grandmother Brown than I had been.  I had some very nice help, but I left somewhat frustrated.

We checked into the downtown Hampton Inn, enjoyed a rest, got some information about the rail system, and walked to the station nearest our hotel for a ride back to the city center.  We had dinner at the Blue Lemon which serves delicious food.  Klep enjoyed salmon on rice with veggies and a really good oriental sauce.  I chose the braised short ribs with carrots and roasted new potatoes.

After dinner we strolled over to the Conference Center where we enjoyed listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearse.  Even though it was a rehearsal with starts and stops, it was an absolute joy to hear them sing along with the 60 plus piece orchestra which accompanies them.  Some of their selections were for their upcoming Independence Day concert:

  America the Beautiful, This Land is My Land, Shenandoah, 76 Trombones.

By the time we exited the rehearsal and walked back on the western side of Temple Square under the soaring sycamore trees to our train station, the temperature had started cooling some  which was nice.  We rode our little train the three stops to the Courthouse and walked the last three blocks to the Hampton.  The sun was just setting when we closed our drapes and fell into bed.