Piggy Banks, Salt Lake DUP Museum, Council Hall, Temple Square flowers

We emptied Isaac's, Jovie's, and TB's piggy banks into a bucket to cash them in. My piggy bank is a Christmas tree decoration and it's full, but it's too small to empty. (Note: When buying a piggy bank, choose one with a large coin-retrieval hole or you'll just be frustrated and have sore fingers.) So that took a long time.

We went to the "expensive car wash where they write things on your window" as requested by Isaac. The operator drew a smiley face and a sailboat on our window.
We dropped our coins in the noisy coin machine at Zions Bank, enjoyed some complimentary mints,  and ended up with $213 to put in college accounts!! I saw two coworkers from my previous career as a banker so I showed off my adorable kids for a few minutes.
We headed to the Daughter of Utah Pioneers Memorial Museum in downtown Salt Lake City near the Capitol. Every DUP museum we've been to so far has the sweetest and most patient and engaged ladies who you would imagine are wonderful grandmas, so the bar was really high for the main musuem. The Salt Lake volunteers must see too many buses full of kids because they did not seem like sweet or patient grandmas. They were more like my third grade teacher who definitely saw too many buses full of kids by the time I got there.

 

The museum is impressive in the way you might expect a large four story building (plus a two story carriage house) full of artifacts to be. There were 20 pianos, 200 quilts and 2000 photographs. The most moving thing was the yokes for the oxen, because that made the pioneers struggles seem very real. Ikey liked the replica Golden Spike and the super shiny steam-powered fire truck. Jovie liked signing in on the guest sheet which the docents didn't like.

Council Hall is a beautiful building with tourism offices and a gift shop. Not much to see here, people. Jovie wouldn't pose.

The flowers on Temple Square were really beautiful. We ate lunch at Lion House pantry, at Ikey's request. He specifically wanted carrot cake, so we got it of course.

Back when I worked for a living, I did it in the shiny building in the background. Now I just play for a living and I do that wherever we happen to be.