The Saturday Night before Christmas we walked the few blocks from Mimi and Opa's to Temple Square to see the lights. We planned to ride Trax, but after missing it by a few minutes, we decided we could get there more quickly on foot. We stopped first at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where we rode the elevator to the top floor so we could take in this sight:
On our way down, Santa greeted us as we stepped off the elevator.
And there was something about that gorgeous Christmas tree that made these kids feel a little goofy...
Then the serious shot...Trent takes serious to the next level...or maybe he just didn't want to get his picture taken in front of the Christmas Tree, either way....
OK, so here's the fun part. There is always a fun part. Life's a party with this crowd. So, Temple Square was ultra-crowded that night. It was like a Mardi Gras parade. OK, maybe not
just like a Mardi Gras parade, but you pretty much just had to move along in the mass of people and hope you didn't lose one of the children. We wanted to go to the North Visitor's Center to see the Christus Statue. So Ricky takes a couple of kids and goes to scope out the crowd at the South entrance to the Visitor's Center. The rest of us head to the East doors where we can see that to get up the ramp to see the statue, we would just have to jump in the crowd and hope to get a glimpse. Well, Bryan has the bright idea to sneak up the side stairs and go in the exit door. He takes off upstairs to see if they would let us in, comes back and waves us up. We text Ricky and he meets us at the bottom of the stairs. As our group of 12 sneaks up the stairs, we are met by this cute set of Sister missionaries who Bryan has already made friends with and they just watch us as we walk right in the door I think they were supposed to be guarding. Anywhoo, we got to see the Christus without waiting in the monster line and it was great. As we left Temple Square that night, the fog started to set in and I got this sweet picture of the Temple and Tabernacle.
The Saturday Night before Christmas we walked the few blocks from Mimi and Opa's to Temple Square to see the lights. We planned to ride Trax, but after missing it by a few minutes, we decided we could get there more quickly on foot. We stopped first at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where we rode the elevator to the top floor so we could take in this sight:
On our way down, Santa greeted us as we stepped off the elevator.
And there was something about that gorgeous Christmas tree that made these kids feel a little goofy...
Then the serious shot...Trent takes serious to the next level...or maybe he just didn't want to get his picture taken in front of the Christmas Tree, either way....
OK, so here's the fun part. There is always a fun part. Life's a party with this crowd. So, Temple Square was ultra-crowded that night. It was like a Mardi Gras parade. OK, maybe not just like a Mardi Gras parade, but you pretty much just had to move along in the mass of people and hope you didn't lose one of the children. We wanted to go to the North Visitor's Center to see the Christus Statue. So Ricky takes a couple of kids and goes to scope out the crowd at the South entrance to the Visitor's Center. The rest of us head to the East doors where we can see that to get up the ramp to see the statue, we would just have to jump in the crowd and hope to get a glimpse. Well, Bryan has the bright idea to sneak up the side stairs and go in the exit door. He takes off upstairs to see if they would let us in, comes back and waves us up. We text Ricky and he meets us at the bottom of the stairs. As our group of 12 sneaks up the stairs, we are met by this cute set of Sister missionaries who Bryan has already made friends with and they just watch us as we walk right in the door I think they were supposed to be guarding. Anywhoo, we got to see the Christus without waiting in the monster line and it was great. As we left Temple Square that night, the fog started to set in and I got this sweet picture of the Temple and Tabernacle.
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