Day 12 June 24 2010

We started the day off by doing a few chores around the rv. We went to post office, then went to the This Is The Park pics to follow, we then came back to rv and waited to go hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearse, we met a friend George knows from the Mall back home they had just got in town. We got an unexpected pleasure of a second tour a top their Convention center. You feel you are on ground level but you are quite a few stories high with all these trees, flowers and water fountains it is beautiful.

Looking up from inside the Convention Center thru one of the Skylights above the fountain.
One of the many sculptures.

The Fountain inside the center under the skylight.

Man playing the pipe organ.

Conductor leading the rehearsal this evening.

The Choir during their Thursday evening rehearsal.

Look who we met up with here this evening. A friend from the Mall in Houston Texas.

A girl getting pictures taken for her quintessal maybe, in the park.

Memory park in a valley by the Capital in Salt Lake City UT.

The Capital Building.

The entrance to "This Is The Place Heritage Park"

The Pony Express Station on the grounds.

This is the actual station.

Statues in the park area.

A monument in the park.

A layout of the town, where Brigham Young first settled in Salt Lake City, in the visitors center.

We took the train ride around the park first. Then we walked around the park and took more pictures.

Just an old wagon.

Young's Home that was moved to the park, this is his original home . It was taken apart and then put back together here.

The NewsPaper Building. We got to see the first edition of the paper made just the way they did in 1858.

Drying the paper.

The press.

Inking the plates for printing.

I got to assist him printing the paper.

An Old Old Bathtub. notice the wooden rim around the top of the tub. this is on the second story of the following building.

Where we had lunch today on the grounds of the park.

Some visitors took our picture for us. We were good and shared a Cheeseburger.

The Cabinet Shop, and they still make things here.

Nice lathe.

The driving force for the Lathe.

The Tinsmith.

He was making a canteen and they sell them in the gift shop. He can make about two or three per day.

The Bank. He is making a pickup for delivery.

The School House.

Teacher was teaching a class today with a group of visiting children.

Explaining the reason for the "Dunce Cap". She also explained that she would take for tuition the boys to chop wood, girls to clean the school house and also needed a place to live as her family she had been living with had been called by Brigham Young to move on and she had no place after Saturday to live.

The Deseret Alphabet. Very interesting.

One of the cabins where passers could stay for the night. It cost a dollar and that included breakfast and a supper when they arrived.

Making candles the old fashion way, dipping in wax and then water to cool.

The inside of what they called The Halfway House, this was like a bed and breakfast in the old days. Cost was $1.00 per night. The next few pictures are of the inside of the house.

This was their parlor were they could gather after meals.

This was the owners bedroom.

One of the Guest bedrooms, notice the potty under the bed.

A small cabin. This was a cabin where the children were taught to do all the chores children had to do many years ago, like beating the rugs on the fence with a stick or broom, washing clothes in a tub and hanging on a line to dry, etc.

Smoot Hall "Brigham Young Academy" at the park.

University of Utah sign.

Stadium in Salt Lake City.