Salt Lake City

I forgot to mention yesterday that we passed a beautiful waterfall on that Provo Canyon Road.  I didn't get a pix because I didn't know it was coming, and for some reason, Joe chose not to slam on the brakes!   

Well, today was a day of Excellent Adventures.  First we took the dinghies and drove into SLC to the Mormon Temple Square.  What a magnificent place.  We toured the visitor centers and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir building, as well as other buildings on the grounds.  It was all very beautiful.  There is a gold angel between the first two spires on the left, if you are able to see it. 

Next we went to a classic car museum.  Collins and Paul are old car buffs (you can decide whether "old" means cars or Collins and Paul).  It was not in a fancy building but the guy did have quite a collection.  Then we drove to the Sweet Candy Factory, where we had a tour and free samples.  Due to federal regulations, we had to remove all jewelry and wear hairnets (which might have been an improvement on our bad hair days). 

We concluded our day with a trip to the Brigham Canyon to the Kennecott Copper Mine, the largest open pit mine in the country.  It is over 2 1/2 miles across and 1/2 mile deep, and is the deepest human-made excavation on earth.  It is visible on Google Earth, and has yielded over 17 million tons of copper, more than any other mine in history.  Plus, we saw 2 antelope on the way in, 2 cow elk on the way out, and another antelope (may have been the same one, but that was a couple hours earlier, so it gets counted again).  It was a truly excellent day!

We are leaving this beautiful camp site tomorrow and heading north -- don't know if we will get out of Utah or not.  But we are moving.