Salt Lake Getaway

This past week Seth and I were just itching to get away.  Itching down in our bones I tell you.  We debated going down to Southern Utah for some warmer weather-but neither of us were really feeling the long drive there AND back-so we cast our votes and unanimously Salt Lake City became the winner for our getaway.  I had read where The Pioneer Woman visited Salt Lake recently and stayed in the glorious Grand America and had only positive reviews.  I was uber excited about it and thought that is the place for Seth and I to stay-no questions about it.  Needless to say we discovered the prices and chose to look elsewhere :).  Across the street was a mini version of the Grand America called the Little America--catch my drift?  Anywho-it was a lovely hotel (just as good as the Grand in my book!) and we both had a great time.


We went to the movies and saw 'The Adjustment Bureau' and my date splurged and bought us Popcorn and a Soda :).  We went into a HUGGGGE kitchen store where we spent at least an hour browsing.  Neither of us wanted to leave without purchasing something-Go Figure-so we narrowed down our choices to:


1. Porcelain Mixing Bowl with Handle and Pourable Lip.
2. 12 inch Cast Iron Pan
3. Cast Iron Dutch Oven
4. Pretty Decorative Cake Plate


After Much A-do about it-we narrowed it down to the two Cast Iron items--and Still couldn't decide!!  Who other to call than Seth's sister Emily to help with this Cooking Dilemma :).

Dilemma Discussion w/ Emily.

Dilemma Resolved--We are now PROUD owners of our First Dutch Oven.

Coincidentally Dutch Ovens are Utah's State Pot-so now we are Common Utah folks with this new purchase.  And again we are very excited about it-Seth has already informed me that we are rearranging our menu this week so we can use our new Dutch Oven multiple times.  Thanks Emily :).

View At Night from the Room.

View During the Day from Our Room

We took a stroll to Temple Square-which is Downtown Salt Lake.  Salt Lake offers Trax for traveling downtown (which we used one day to travel to the mall-movie-dinner) but we just walked from our Hotel to the Temple on this occasion.  

By a water fountain.

The Salt Lake Temple

Fun Fact:  It took them 50 years to complete this building.

Temple.

The dome looking thing in front of it is a Tabernacle-which is a Church for LDS.

It was fun to see the some of the monuments that Salt Lake is famous for.  We are planning on showing these things to my Mom and Aunt Macka when they come visit!

Now Seth and I are both just itching to try out our newest addition to our kitchen items-so I will be off now!  Have a good week!

The Cook's :)