Saturday excursion

Since we've been pounded with about 2+ feet of snow over the past several weeks here, today was the day we succumbed to our cabin fever and got outside. It was around 40 degrees today, so not too uncomfortable.

Aaron cleared all of the snow off of our patio, which took close to 2 hours. Heather spent a couple of hours at work, and Aaron made brownies. Once Heather got home, we got the kids ready and all piled into the car and headed north to Salt Lake City. We attended the "Soup's On!" geocaching event at the Utah State Fairgrounds, where about 40 people showed up. After an hour or so, we departed and headed east up to the State Capitol, and then down into the Aveneues towards the Salt Lake City cemetary.

Our main purposes for going to the City cemetary today was to try and find President Hinckley's gravesite, as he was buried there 1 week ago today. As we drove into the cemetary, we saw many large headstones and monuments. We stopped to look at one in particular, and found it was that of Wilford Woodruff, the 4th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Aaron marked the coordinates on his GPS and took a photo of the headstone.

As we continued north through the cemetary, we came across the graves of Heber J. Grant (7th President of the LDS Church); J. Golden Kimball (aka "The Swearing Apostle"); David O. McKay (9th President of the LDS Church); Joseph F. Smith (6th President of the LDS Church) and last, but not least, Gordon B. Hinckley (15th President of the LDS Church). We also saw a large monument dedicated to Hyrum Smith, older brother of Joseph Smith. Aaron made sure to get GPS coordinates for each site, and photos too. It was neat to see the graves and stand next to the markers, enjoying the silence and reverence that a cemetary commands.

Unfortunately, we ran out of daylight and were not able to locate any other graves of past Church presidents, so we hit the road and enjoyed a dinner out at Sonic Drive-In. We'll go back soon and continue our search.

We wanted to share with you photos of our day. Enjoy!