Just Us and the Geo: Salt Lake City

After spending ALL day in the car yesterday, we arrived to a campground just outside of Salt Lake City late late at night, tired and glad to have finally arrived. To our dismay the gates at the entrance of the island (we were actually camping on "Antelope Island") were closed for the night- something the lady we had spoken to on the phone earlier that day about our reservation had apparently forgotten to mention- leaving us sitting in our car with blank stares on our faces and no energy to come up with another plan! Taylor looked around the entrance but could not find any information or instruction for such a situation and just as he was getting back into the car, the Berglin side of me (any of you who know my mother will understand that one!) suggested trying to lift open the gate and see if we could squeeze in! Well, it worked! The gate lifted right up and our little car safely slipped underneath it! I share this with the hope that none of our readers are Park Rangers or National Park/Forest employees, but if there are any who ever come across this blog, I promise we are not terrible people and we went back to the entrance station first thing the next morning to pay for our stay! Pinky Swear!

The campsites on the island were a welcome sight when we pulled up and we quickly set up our tent and hopped in. Minutes after our heads hit our pillows we jumped at a thunderous sound beating past our tent walls!! People from the surrounding campsites were yelling to one another to look at what was going on! It turned out that there are quite a lot of Bison on this island, and this particular herd had decided that they needed a change of scenery! This sent them running, not walking, just feet next to our tent. They almost had some Motsenbocker Mush on their Bison toes!

Thankfully, we lived through the Bison stampede and went into Salt Lake City for some exploring today. It was a beautiful and warm day and we enjoyed walking around. We took a look at the Mormon Temple and though we could not go in, we enjoyed what there was to see from the outside. Then we popped our heads into the Tabernacle and were just in time to hear a woman practicing the organ. Lovely!