It felt really good to be back in civilization after only one freezing night out in the "wild". After checking into the motel, we showered and made some dinner. I made brown rice and toss a can of chili which hit the spot on cold nights. After dinner, we took the doggies out for walk and went to replenish some supplies at nearby Walmart. We saw one guy in shorts walking into Walmart, wow in that temperature, that was a first for us.
We were also able to do one load of laundry and had a good night sleeping in warm comfy bed. In the morning, we walked the doggies around the motel and it was funny to see their reaction toward snow.
As usual, they're excited to go out for walks, but after a couple seconds in snow, they started to lose the excitement, especially Matthew he started crying and can't decide which paw should he take off from the snow!
After packing all our stuff back into the car, we drove around and spotted photo ops, these are my favorites:
After that we headed north toward Salt Lake City which is only half hour drive. It began to snow slightly when we were on the freeway driving toward SLC. The road looked like they were just recently ploughed making it safe to drive at regular freeway speed. The falling snows were mesmerizing as you drive into them, hypnotizing you of its gracefulness. It continues to fall harder reducing visibility forcing me to slow down but we were approaching the Mormon HQ so no hurry there.
We found a parking spot right outside the compound. It was so cool to walk around while snowing, even managed to catch one snow falling in action.
They also have nativity staged in the compound, it looked pretty awesome in the snow.
It started to get a little wet so we went inside one of the many buildings to warm up and also restroom. Chit chatted with one of the volunteers and found out they come from all over the world, saw one from the Philippines.
The lot the church and other buildings sit on are quite big. I can only imagine how much money they're making to maintain all this.
Simply put - it's huge!
All that walking made us hungry, we yelped around to see what's good, first option what Vietnamese based on reviews, even drove to the restaurant only to find out they ran out of food and couldn't accept more customer. Bummer!
Yelped again and this time we settled for Thai. Not too far but the restaurant was empty. By this time we were famished and just decided to try anyway.
We ordered green curry, cashew chicken and pad Thai. Oh ya we also got a yelp deal for half off on the pad Thai. Food was not bad, ta pao whatever we couldn't finish and continued on to Evanston, Wyoming. Just can't beat these kinda views.
2 comments:
the fluffy dog so cute!! So fast snowing already ah
The fluffy dog is Matthew haha
now his hair is also the same length, picks everything up
Nolar, this was from Dec/Jan. See the subject?
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