The Jumping Tour in SLC

This past weekend Cole attended a sewing workshop at Alt Summit put on by the talented Susan Petersen of Freshly Picked. Susan had enlisted a group of her friends all equally skilled and knowledgeable in various textile arts: There was some leather work, some sewing, some silk screening, and a little crash course in crocheting...

Cole had two hours to bounce around this big ballroom at Alt and dabble in each thing, and she walked out of that room a total addict. She seriously would not put the crotchet needle down. Saturday night was like a scene right out of New Jack City, "put it down Pookie." It wasn't long before she was out of yarn, and on her phone tracking down a yarn shop in SLC. So on our last day in town, we ventured off into downtown to get this girl some more yarn. The nice thing for me, was that it gave us a chance to get out and see more of the city, and we had our vacation tradition that we still had to shoot, thejumping picture. My big plan was that I wanted a shot of her leaping into the air in front of the Temple.

I just didn't do such a great job at paying attention to exactly where the temple was all weekend. I was so focused on Alt Summit, that I just assumed it was the great big gorgeous building we saw from our hotel room balcony. It was huge, hand carved stone, old, and had many pointy towers. Duh.

Our walking tour of SLC for yarn


Cole couldn't get over how Salt Lake City has greener grass right now than Florida, so she dove in.

This was the only snow we found to stand in, so we could say we stood in snow.


**Since people are asking about the shoes, HERE they are.

The first picture below was before we realized this was not the Mormon Temple, Cole thought we were going to get in trouble for jumping in front of the sacred towers. She said "This is like against the rules isn't it? it's like not taking your picture in front of your Kim Jong Il poster or something!" Nobody came and took us away, because we were just jumping in front of the old regular City Hall building. Turns out not every gorgeous castle looking structure in SLC is a temple. So we regrouped, and found a cab driver that wanted to show off his town, and he drove us up to the top of the "bowl" and showed us a great view of everything, he said we would want to hug him. It was in fact a gorgeous view, but we chose not to hug. And then he took us to the temple for some great big leaps. Mission accomplished. Our vacation was complete.







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