Out of State Travel

I went to Salt Lake City yesterday for work. It was a one day thing. flew in in the morning, flew out in the evening. All in all I spent 11 hours in Salt Lake.

I was there for a college fair so my only luggage was my literature to hand out to students. I had checked the weather the day before and found out Salt Lake was having a cold spell and would be 25 degrees below normal (read: 40 degrees with chance of snow and rain) this same spell was hitting Arizona and Phoenix was also going to be about 25 degrees below normal (read: 75 degrees with plenty of sunshine). I dug through my closet to find a suitable jacket and a scarf and went off to Salt Lake.

I landed and my friend Justin (who goes to BYU) picked me up from the airport. we went to breakfast and then he dropped me off at my fair...as it was snowing. It was a wet snow that wasn't sticking, but still, it was snow. The fair went really well and it was very large, probably 50 or more colleges were represented.

Justin was late picking me up so I took a picture outside of the school


When he did come he and I went and picked up a friend of his, which was a mini adventure in and of itself since we had a hard time finding her house, but on the plus side we both saw a lot of the suburbs. He said he had planned stuff for us to do before my flight home so we picked up his friend and went off to...

The Mormon Temple! (I mean really, was that a shock to anyone?)It really is beautiful and I hadn't been there since around 2000 so it was fun. we took a "tour" of the visitor center and I was educated about Joseph Smith and how he came to find the true church of Jesus and...

anyway, we had to leave soon after so I could catch my flight home. It was great to see Justin and meet his friend. As I got on my plane snow trickled in where the gate attached to the plane. the plane had to be de-iced before we could take off which is something I had never seen before so I am glad I had a window seat. Still all my hopes were that we would take off since I did not want to spend the night in Salt Lake.

All ended well and I am back home, done with my out of state travel for the semester.

Although I did just find out I am the official Minnesota rep now, so a trip to Minneapolis in February might come up...good thing I had some practice in Salt Lake.