Greetings from Salt Lake City

Hi Jackson and Riley! We miss you, so we thought we would send you pictures of what we are doing. First, let me tell you my camera wasn't doing great, PLUS I'm not very good at taking pictures! Oh well.  Click the pictures and it will make them bigger so you can see them
better.
Here we are on our airplane trip to Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is about 1800 miles from Florence. That is a LONG way from home!
This is how it looked from the airplane for a long time.

Uncle Murray had been playing Plants vs. Zombies . . .

until it started looking like this!

I put this picture on here because it reminded me of what another planet might look like! It didn't remind me of earth.

We thought this was the Salt Lake. We were wrong!

That light brown, orange part is a copper mine.

The mountains were big, but they didn't look THAT big until ...

we saw them with some houses -- those little dots are houses!

LOTS of houses!

After we took a rest, we decided to go to the REAL Salt
Lake. We passed this part of a hill that had been cut away
to make room for the road. Check out those layers of
rock. It took thousands of years to make each layer.

This is our first look at the real Salt Lake. We are on a road

taking us to Antelope Island, an island in the middle of the Lake.

You have to look REALLY hard to see it, but

as we were walking up a path, Uncle Murray said "Don't

step on the rabbit." The rabbit was about 2 feet away

from me.

Uncle Murray decided he would try rock climbing.

Then he decided he would just climb on top of this one.

This is why it is called Antelope Island.

He is using the dried branches to scratch his neck.

This is like the "beach" there. But I wouldn't go

swimming there! There is so much salt in the water.

Picture this -

you put water in 3 of those bottles of drink from my

house and pour them in a pitcher. Now fill 1 whole bottle

with salt and add that to the pitcher. If you

stir those together, amount of salt that would be in that

much water from the lake. It is so salty fish can't live there.

Only a certain kind of shrimp. I don't think I want

to eat those!

If your dad is going to cooking anytime soon with sage, he can get

LOTS of it on Antelope Island. (Of course, it's the wild kind, but

it smells just like the kind we buy at the grocery store.)

There are 500 - 700 bison that hang out on the island.

This is the beautiful reflection of the moutains in Salt Lake as

we left the island.

More news tomorrow! Love, Uncle Murray and Aunt Donde