Temple Square

It has been years since either Joel or I have been up to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. We figured this was the year to go since Jenna is just fascinated with Christmas lights.

We had to wait until Joel was done with school for the semester (by the way, he got straight A's) so it wasn't until December 21st that we could go. We also had to wait until Joel got off of work for the night which wasn't until 5:00.

We got all bundled up and filled the trunk with more stuff to bundle up in once we got there.

Well, we hit rush hour traffic then realized that neither of us had been up to Salt Lake in quite some time so we didn't realized all of the construction that was going on. It took awhile to find a place to park but about an hour and a half later we were out of the car and walking only a few blocks to Temple Square. There were some people out playing Christmas carols just outside of the gates as well as some vendors selling hot drinks. It made it so much more festive. We walked in the gates and quickly had to find a bathroom. We walked in the visitor's center and it was wall-to-wall people. Joel went in the men's room and of course there was no line. The women's restroom, however, was like a twenty minute wait. Really, people??? We were able to find a hidden bathroom and were soon on our way.

Well, kind of.

We walk out of the building and Joel stops to take a picture. Well, the battery was nearly dead on the camera and he couldn't figure out how to take good pictures of the lights (new camera). So we spent about ten minutes playing with the camera, all the while getting colder and colder. We walked around until we got our fill of lights, then headed back to the car. We realized at this point that it was 8:00 and we hadn't eaten dinner. Luckily we were parked right next to the Red Iguana so we just went there to eat. Another hour later we were on our way home.

Even though it was cold and fairly uneventful we had a great time and hope to make going to Temple Square a tradition for our family.

Jenna is prepared with her all important glow sticks and cheese.
Ben was all bundled up; all you could see was part of his face.
One of the few pictures we were able to get.