Seeing Salt Lake City

As it has often done before, my traveling job has allowed me to visit yet another place I have never been to before. This time to Salt Lake City. Heck, I’ve never even been to Utah at all before this trip. The city itself look much like most other cities when you hotel is in the middle of downtown.

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But… you also get to see snow-capped mountains!!

We don’t get to see things like that from metro Atlanta.

My hotel was only a couple of blocks from Temple Square where I was able to wander around and take some photos of this beautiful area.

From the size of these buildings, I assume this is the heart (and the administrative complex) of the LDS church.

The prettiest structure in Temple Square is the Salt Lake City Temple.

The Assembly Hall behind it was pretty nice, too.

There were more “administrative” buildings across the street.

I found this cool model in the visitors' center.

It was nice to see those snow-capped mountains among these beautiful structures.

I found the famous Tabernacle and was surprised I could go inside.

I decided I was churched-out for the day, so headed back to the hotel for a break and enjoyed the beautiful, and well-integrated, outdoor mall on the south side of Temple Square.

Back at the hotel, I grabbed my rental car and headed out of town towards the Great Salt Lake. I clearly could not get enough of the mountains in the distance.

I finally made it out to the Great Salt Lake State Park for some views of this incredibly salty body of water.

Yes, you see those mountains from every direction you go!!

That is really about I was able to do on my extra day on this trip and spent the rest of the week with a great client teaching them about Apache Hive and Apache Spark.

Rest assured, there were views from there, too!

This is probably not one of my “exciting” posts, but I am still very thrilled to have these opportunities to visit communities & sights I would not otherwise get to see first hand. Blessed indeed.