Steve and I both really like Utah. Steve attended BYU and I lived in Provo for a about a year in 1979. We recently took a trip to Tremonton,Logan and Salt Lake City the end of May first of June.
Our main reason for visiting Utah was to see Dorothy Gunnell. I never met Steve's mom,Olive Gunnell. Unfortunately she died before I met Steve. When I started dating Steve his father,J.Darwin Gunnell had been married to Dorothy for approximately 2 years. Darwin passed away just over two years ago and at that time Darwin and Dorothy had been married for 16 years. We had not seen Dorothy since Darwin's funeral and she celebrated her 93rd birthday June 4th. We knew it was time to pay her a visit! Dorothy is living in a care facility in Tremonton where her daughter Rita lives. Tremonton is where Dorothy grew up and lived with her first husband until he died. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Dorothy at our visit. We were happy to see she is doing remarkably well. We enjoyed a nice dinner with Dorothy, her daughter Rita and Rita's husband Vaughn.
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| We spent one night in Salt Lake. We toured temple square and we always love to eat at the Lion House resturaunt by temple square. |
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| I loved the reflection of the tabernacle in this office buildings windows. |
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| The Salt Lake Temple is so beautiful. Built with sacrifice and love. |
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| We stayed two nights in Logan. We took a 40 minute drive to Bear Lake. Along the way we stopped and took a little hike in a wildlife preserve. It too was beautiful. |
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| Bear Lake. The little town at the bottom of the hill down by the lake is Garden City,famous for their raspberry shakes. We decided to give them a try and they were berry,berry,delicious! |
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| Logan has a cute little Zoo called Willow Park Zoo. Its a 2 dollar admission for adults that on the honor system you place in a metal box. They claim to have over 600 animals. I believe they do but they are mostly birds and water fowl. We were so impressed with this little zoo. It was clean and the enclosures were very nice. There were some very beautiful exotic birds and fowl that I had never seen before from the middle east. They did have bobcats,coyote,raccoons,elk,turtles and deer. |
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| If you enlarge this photo of the Emu you will see a baby on the left side of the Emu on the right. There were two babies. |
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| One of the beautiful pheasants. |
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| An albino porcupine. |
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| The grounds are gorgeous. |
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| We paid a visit to the Logan temple another beautiful house of the Lord. |
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| We enjoyed our short trip to Utah. We will be back. |
2 comments:
This is a very nice post. The pictures are beautiful. I always love to see pictures of the temples. I can see why you were impressed with the little Willow Park Zoo. It is lovely and looks very well kept. The animals/birds look healthy. A fun trip.
Great state. I look forward to visit the place as well.
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