Salt Lake City

On Thursday we made a long drive (for us)....... 320 miles, to reach Salt Lake City. Wonderful weather, we could eat dinner outside.
First item of sightseeing we took a city bus tour. It was great, only four people on a 20-passenger bus. In addition to the usual sights, the tour included an organ recital in the Mormon Tabernacle and lunch in one of Brigham Young's former homes, Red Lion.  Huge highlight of the tour was the flower gardens in Temple Square.....full Spring bloom with thousands of flowers of all colors. Awesome!

The Utah State Capitol recently finished a 10-year restoration project and Wow! it is stunning. The rotunda is snow white polished marble, unbelievable. I was captured by the sculpture of the lion named "Integrity".....smooth, white polished marble.

Today I went out alone to sightsee while Jack "relaxed". LOL

I visited the new City Library...it has to be the grandmother of all public libraries, a magnificent building,  humongous atrium, a cafe, shops, four floors of stacks, hundreds of nooks with desks and comfortable chairs for reading and a roof-top garden with a 360 degree view of the city and the mountains. slcpl.org I could live there!

What a great city, so beautiful in the Spring!