“Sometimes I forget it’s true/ I could use a reminder”

by chuckofish

Hello, readers. Daughter #1 here. Back from a conference in Utah. Thank you Daughter #2 for covering for me. Yes, I travelled to Utah for 3 1/2 days of talking to people I don’t know and wearing a very large nametag, even in public. I had not flown in over a year and a half and it’s just as hellish but now with a mask! At least if I sat at a bar nursing a diet coke, I could remove it. A warning–the Salt Lake City airport, though brand new and featuring a security set up that looks as if it were designed and implemented by Chick Fil A employees, has a walk that must be at least two miles long from the pick up/drop off to the Southwest gates. At one point, half-way through, there is a sign that literally says “7 Minute Walk to B Gates” OKAY.

Anyway, the first night, I braved an enclosed tram full of 50 people to ride up a mountain for this view. I can’t imagine skiing down! The conference itself was interesting and I am I glad I went. But I was also glad to get home.

We also got to see the Utah State Capitol–and while it was pretty, I like Missouri’s more.

Our tour guide told us that the seagulls you can just glimpse at the top of the rotunda have a wingspan of six feet when you are up close. From the floor, obviously, they look quite small. My mother, of course, knew the the significance of seagulls to the Mormons–read more here.

Beehives are also of importance to Utahans and their State Capitol is full of them. Beehives are a favorite of mine–and I enjoyed spotting them throughout (much like visitors to the Missouri State Capitol can go on a scavenger hunt for bears).

And lest you think I would travel to Salt Lake City and not go see the LDS temple, never fear, I went. But! It is closed for four years as they totally retrofit it and raise it to put it on shock absorbers to protect it in the event of an earthquake. They did the same thing to the State Capitol in 2004. Wild stuff.

Anyway, it all makes me glad to be back in Missouri–even if I did overschedule myself this week and try to cram two weeks of work and travel into three days! This made me laugh:

And I thought it was interesting that my mother included a link to an article about the power of singing on Monday’s post because I had planned to include the song below after hearing it for the first time on my drive back to Mid-MO on Saturday.

Life, as we continually discuss on this blog, is more than we know.