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Showing posts with label USA Part 27. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA Part 27. Show all posts

Thursday, August 25, 2011

SALT LAKE CITY

We left Yellowstone N.P. and Wyoming and headed south to Salt Lake City in Utah. It is a clean, neat and beautiful city.
The Capitol Building

The Memorial Gardens

That evening we went on a tour of the Temple Square and the Gardens on the Plaza. It was a very hot day and I wasn't feeling the best because I had started with a bronchitis cough. Consequently I didn't take my camera on the evening tour. The gardens and buildings were magnificent and I am mad with myself for not taking the camera. There are many buildings all to do with the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, which makes sense as this is the headquarters of Mormon Church.




The gardens were absolutely beautiful.They surround the 35 acres of the headquarters of the LDS. There are 250 garden beds with over 165,000 plants and 700 varieties from all over the world. The gardens are redesigned every six months and replanted by hundreds of volunteers.
After the garden tour, the whole group of us had dinner at the Mormon restaurant called The Lion House Pantry. It was one of the best meals that we had on the tour. 

The Cultural Centre, Salt lake City. 
After dinner we all went to a rehearsal of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It was held in The Cultural Centre that evening and not the Tabernacle. The choir was a pleasure to hear they had fabulous voices.