Monday, September 19

This morning Michael and I headed back to the LDS Family History Center just up the street.  We had been working through building our family trees, but we knew we weren't doing it the most efficiently and knew there had to be more to learn.  Sister Fischer was very helpful.  She was able to show us how to search for records, make sure they were the right person, and then attach that record and update our information.  She also told us about the Granite Mountains Records Vault, which is in the hills not far from Salt Lake City.  It was built in 1965 to house important family and historical records.  Some countries store their original documents there because it is so safe from natural disasters.  The Pacific Island of Niue lost all of its genealogical records in a cyclone, but were able to get copies from this site.

We had lunch in the unit, then spent a little time around the pool before heading off to the Park City Olympic Village for a 45 minute tour.  The winter olympics were held in Salt Lake City in 2002.  Park City was the site of bobsleds, luge, and ski jumps.  The site is now used for training and we watched some athletes go down the practice ski jumps and then do loops in the air and land in a big water pool.  We saw the ski jumps from the bottom and the top and the various bobsled and luge tracks.  It was a little hard to picture the scene in 2002 since it was currently 77 degrees at the site.

Then we went across the road to the movie theater to see Tom Hanks in  "Sully" which we all really enjoyed and highly recommend.  Dinner was at Butcher's where they had 2 for 1 entrees and my salmon and Michael's chicken fried chicken were delicious.  We especially enjoyed the brussel sprouts with bacon and garlic.  We haven't had a bad meal, or even a mediocre one, on this whole trip.

I've finally figured out how to add pictures.  Here a few from the olympic site, the hot air balloon show and the rehearsal of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.