We had a rare sunny weekend with nothing to do. So instead of doing much needed chores around the house, we decided to go on a budget tour of our city (everything we did was free!). First stop: The Utah State Capitol Building.
There was an amusingly strange / alternative festival out front, and I was pleased to see that there is at least a small bit of diversity in Salt Lake, even if was only from the hours of 2-4 pm. Most of the rooms were closed for the weekend, so we definitely need to go back when we can see it all. So if you come and visit, you very well might get to go on a tour of the Capitol with us.
Although there were no bizarre governor’s portraits like there are in Sacramento, we did find an incredibly awful Photoshop Cloning FAIL.
Really? It would have taken about 2 minutes longer to clone it properly. But that’s besides the point… Why on earth did they need to even add extra head to her?
Poor Chief Justice Christine Durham.
Afterwards we mosied around the Capitol area until we saw a monument on the top of the hill. We weaved our way through neighborhoods until we found a trailhead, and soon we were on a mini hike up to Ensign Peak.
The weather was warm (for a snow-less weekend in February in Utah, that is. I think it got up into the low 60s), the views were spectacular, and the company was lovely. We’ll add this to our list of places to take people when they visit. The list is getting quite long. Someone had better come and visit us soon.
Is that a beard in the making I see there?
Groan. Yes. I really dislike the months surrounding Mustache March.
Great find on the photoshopped hair haha.
I’m waiting for pics and writeup of Yurt adventure. An excellent beard. I’m sporting my first ever..
You’ll have to wait a little bit longer for the yurt write up. First attempt was a fail. We drove all the way out there and were stood up. Apparently they canceled it because there weren’t enough people but failed to inform us. So instead we were treated to dinner at the fancy restaurant at the resort (I had the duck!) and we will reattempt the yurt adventure this weekend.
Bummer! At least they covered for themselves somewhat. Looking forward to the weekend pics.
Haha- we were just at the Texas State Capitol and we too were disappointed there were no 5 year old renditions of any of the Governors!!
We were there this fall and we also noticed a severe lack of odd portraits.
http://shaneswenson.smugmug.com/gallery/6915888_LdqLb#442555527_72fGd