After our lovely evening last night in Cheyenne, we packed up the car and headed west back to where this part of the adventure with Alex started: Salt Lake City. We decided we weren't going to spend a lot of time in SLC because it sounded like a cool enough town we may make a trip someday to explore more. Naturally, I had one thing I needed to see on my list: the Mormon Temple. Every time I have seen pictures, the temple looks like something out of the future. The spires are all illuminated to make it look like Oz and I am just dying to see it for myself to see how much is good photography and how much is just a majestic building.
After checking into our hotel, we journeyed the mile by foot down Main Street to Temple Square. The blocks are surprisingly long compared with many of the places I have been, the city is much larger as well. The culture and personality of the city could be seen on the main streets. Though it was a Sunday, there was still a soft bustle of commotion on the streets. I cannot imagine how crowded this would be on a weekday.
When we arrived at Temple Square, there was construction that directed us towards the capitol building. We saw several buildings of all shapes and sizes that proudly displayed "Church of Latter Day Saints". This gave us both wonderings into how large this community actually is if they have several large buildings full of offices. When we couldn't find a building with futuristic spires, I caved and looked at Google Maps. We were apparently standing right in front of it. The whole temple was under construction and the iconic spires were no longer on the building. What?! You mean to say I finally made it to SLC, over 1800 miles from home to NOT SEE the famous Mormon Temple?! How so very disappointing!
You know, on most of this trip, I have had few preconceived notions or even "to dos". This trip has mostly been about trying to be present in each place and explore where I feel pulled. There were very few "to dos" and most of them were natural (so way less likely to suddenly not exist or be closed). I didn't even think to have the Northern Lights on this trip at the beginning because I know how fickle they are and did not want to send myself on a goose chase. But here I had this simple "to do" - I wasn't even going to try to go inside (word on the street is I wouldn't be able to anyhow). I guess some research ahead of time would have been good here, but seriously, who thinks to look up if the outside of a building is under construction?! I guess that just reaffirms that there are no sure things in life, everything is temporary.
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