But today we welcomed Sara to Utah (my niece; she flew in from CA to visit her dad for a while before returning to college at the end of the summer), visited a burger place (ok - not my thing! But the shakes were great :-) ), and the world's largest copper mine.
Pretty cool place! One of the few man-made objects that can be seen from space. A hole in the ground so deep the Empire State building could fit in there and still not reach the top. It was a fun visit (especially so because of cousins being together)! If you are interested in learning about the copper mining and refining process here's a cute video http://www.kennecott.com/ore-to-more/ only 6 minutes and it will do an infinitely better job explaining than I could!
Here's the crew: Micah, Dylan, Sara and Steve (big bro). The tire is one from the rock moving trucks - only $25,000 per tire! Six tires per truck and they last a year....talk about overhead!
We topped the day off by watching the Pioneer Day fireworks from high up on a hill, you can see the whole of Salt Lake City from there; really gorgeous! You might think that is a low cloud on the horizon, but it's really the Great Salt Lake (our tour guide has promised us a closer look, smile) surrounded by mountains.
So this extended-stay hotel may not be generous with the toilet paper - but they do have decent internet, so we added the Old Faithful pictures if you're interested.
Blessings - and good night!
u got to love the toilet paper in the vending machine my dad would need that really bad if he was going on a road trip
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