Downtown Field Trip

Can you see the Capitol behind the kids? This was the first day in weeks that you could even see your hand in front of your face. The air quality in the valley is not very good during the winter. 

Miss George gave us a friendly personal tour of the observation deck on the 26th floor of the Church Office Building on Temple Square. I had been telling the kids that it's the tallest building in Utah, but it turns out that the Wells Fargo building is two feet taller. We'll have to go look at that, but I'm not sure we'll get such a cheerful tour guide.

We ate a delicious meal at The Pantry at The Lion House. Our dining room used to be the vegetable cellar. We had two desserts and only one vegetable.

 

We had a nice tour of The Beehive House from ladies from Germany and Latvia. The kids loved the women. Ikey said, "You're being so polite!"

 
Ikey told the tour guides that he is a railfan (it's part of his regular introduction) so they pointed out this banister with a locomotive and a train track. Ikey said it's "a really old Trax."

 

We stopped at the beautiful new OC Tanner building in the old Hansen Planetarium building. We looked for amber and were hoping to see a piece with an insect in it, but they don't sell amber...but can I interest you in a Rolex? Yes, you can.

 

We checked out the Social Hall museum and the tunnel under State Street. It was snowing by the time we left our downtown field trip, so we pretended it was Christmas the whole way home.