RAINED YESTERDAY

We wanted to go to Temple Square yesterday and decided to go when it wasn’t raining…I stayed at home and studied my Spanish lessons…Mary Ann has gone to wash the clothes and I am waiting for the detail man to come by and detail the motor home…I took this time to study again…and write in the blog…I will let you know how well the man cleaned up the motor home…Talk to you later in the day…Hope to get some pictures and publish them of our activity today…We are planning on going to the square tomorrow…We will definitely take pictures then…Philip

INVITED TO DINNER TONIGHT

Karen and Rob invited us to dinner tonight…Had a wonderful time…The stake dinner was excellent…Ryan and Kelsi had just returned from their honeymoon from Mexico…They showed us the pictures of their trip…They seemed to have had a wonderful time…We are planning a trip to Temple Square in down town Salt Lake…I will try to remember to take my camera and show some pictures on my blog tomorrow…As you probably have guessed by now, I forgot it tonight…We have two more weeks in Salt Lake and we have several more places to visit before we leave…I am spending a lot of time on my Spanish lessons…Talk to you tomorrow…Philip

THE GOLDEN SPIKE

When I was younger and saw movies about the Golden Spike and read the book by Zane Grey, I have been intrigued about that portion of history…We are here in Salt Lake, Utah for a few weeks and decided to drive the eighty some miles and see the spot where the spike was driven…I am sure that I will be able to find the golden spike and make me a rich man…HA HA…We left about ten in the morning and drove up I –15…Well you guessed it, Mary Ann had to stop for the inevitable pit…We saw a Flying-J and she rushed in…Out she came with two donuts…We consumed the sugar rush and continued to the spot in the middle of nowhere in the desert plains of Utah…They have made a National Park where the driving of the spike occurred…We arrived at eleven thirty and the movie was just beginning…This was some of out unscheduled luck…The movie was about thirty minutes long and as soon as the movie was over, the ranger lectured about the spike being driven…Then came the demonstration of the two trains…These were made from the actual plans of the original engines…The trains backed up about a quarter mile and switched to a side rail and made a pass where we could observe…I hope my pictures will give you the idea of the activity…I could not give you the experience of smelling the coal being burned, the vibration of the ground as the engine passed, the sound of the whistle and the excitement of the kids that were present…Here are some pictures…Hope you enjoy…Philip

This was another adventure that will not be forgotten…I don’t know why life has been so good to me…I am thankful for this time in my life…Philip