Salt Lake City

I love the welcome sign at the Utah border! We stopped at a welcome center and received free books about the sights to see and the state. They are beautiful booklets with great information! We feel so welcome and are really looking forward to spending some time here. First we will stop at Camping World (thanks, Clem, for telling us about this place). We spent the night in the parking lot at Camping World and got an oil change, new potty and a new awning. They also fixed the tv. They had power and water in the parking lot so it wasn't as bad as it sounds!

While the work was being done we took the Jeep and Mindy out to see the sights. I've been trying to get Cameron a hockey jersey the whole trip but Montana doesn't have a team (HUH!!) and in Idaho we couldn't find any place to buy one. The guy at Fanzz said to go online to get one. Finally here we found the Grizzlies Hockey headquarters and they called a guy in who dug in boxes till he found a jersey for me to buy (don't tell Cameron). They were SO nice to us. Who knew that hockey would be more popular in Alabama than these snow states??

We went in search of the Great Salt Lake. After seeing the "great" Falls I didn't know what to expect of the great salt lake. If there is a word bigger than great to describe this beautiful lake I would us it! Spectacular!! We saw buffalo, prong horns and a little lizard that I thought I had taken a picture of but when I downloaded it to the computer the lizard wasn't in the picture I took! Fast little bugger!! Anyway, the lake is beautiful and seeing the same animals in this different setting was totally worth seeing.

It's hard to tell in the picture but those are little, long legged birds in the water. There were hundreds of them! Also white sea gulls are plentiful. It was like being at the beach on the ocean except that it is a lake. Amazing!

Tomorrow we head south and will visit Bryce Canyon and Zion. I can't wait!