Readers who are familiar with Salt Lake City may wish to ignore this post. I will be writing a few travel type posts for those people who have not yet made the journey to Salt Lake City and this is one of them.
I think the sun may have been up early in Salt Lake City but Mr and Mrs Geniaus, who as they get older take a while to adjust to a change in time zones, had a comfortable sleep in at their hotel. We have a view of the mountains that encircle the valley in which the city is sited.
We arrived in Salt Lake yesterday around 22 hours after leaving home yesterday. Lubricated by the beverages in the Qantas Club we were happy travellers when we boarded our A380. Thankfully our seats gave us plenty of legroom so we were able to stretch our legs, enjoy the movies and get a reasonable amount of shuteye. Our luck continued on our "full flight" from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City where we had the only empty seat on the plane in our row of three.
We collected our rental car, fired up our US GPS and made it to the hotel without taking a wrong turn. On our short pre-dinner drive around the city I managed to visit Best Buy to look at techie toys and Batteries Plus to source a spare camera battery. These are less than half the asking price of $AU130 in Australia.
I had a peek at the email and Facebook this morning and was perplexed by a message from Dear Myrtle "Jill, Are you on B-2 yet? Cannot spot ya!" All I could think of was Bananas in Pyjamas." All was made clear when I read Audrey Collin's comment " I'll be in the Library (B2) most of today." B2 is the floor in the Family History Library where the British and Australian records are stored.
A library visit is on the agenda for this afternoon but now it's time for brunch.
We arrived in Salt Lake yesterday around 22 hours after leaving home yesterday. Lubricated by the beverages in the Qantas Club we were happy travellers when we boarded our A380. Thankfully our seats gave us plenty of legroom so we were able to stretch our legs, enjoy the movies and get a reasonable amount of shuteye. Our luck continued on our "full flight" from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City where we had the only empty seat on the plane in our row of three.
We collected our rental car, fired up our US GPS and made it to the hotel without taking a wrong turn. On our short pre-dinner drive around the city I managed to visit Best Buy to look at techie toys and Batteries Plus to source a spare camera battery. These are less than half the asking price of $AU130 in Australia.
I had a peek at the email and Facebook this morning and was perplexed by a message from Dear Myrtle "Jill, Are you on B-2 yet? Cannot spot ya!" All I could think of was Bananas in Pyjamas." All was made clear when I read Audrey Collin's comment " I'll be in the Library (B2) most of today." B2 is the floor in the Family History Library where the British and Australian records are stored.
A library visit is on the agenda for this afternoon but now it's time for brunch.
4 comments:
Great view Jill! Thanks for posting :)
Glad to see you and the Mr. made it there safely. I'll be in on Sunday. See you soon!
Those mountains are much prettier in January than they were when I saw them in mid-summer many years ago.
Thanks Jill, for your description of Salt Lake City. Sounds and looks great. Will have to get there one day - it's on the bucket list:)
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