After breakfast from our cooler (the hotel doesn't serve anything during Covid time) we headed over to Temple Square. Whenever we come to Salt Lake that's always a required stop - to see what seasonal flowers look like! Always beautiful! Well, to our shock and surprise, we found a major construction project going on around the Temple. Apparently its a four year project to "earthquake proof" the Temple. They've completely torn down the South Visitor Center and excavated all around the base of the Temple. What a mess! And a fascinating construction project! (On our way over we came across security preparations for tomorrow's V.P. debate - a long line of very large dump trucks).
In spite of the mess, there are lots of late summer flowers around that are beautiful as always. We then crossed the street and wandered around City Creek Center - a high end shopping center. Very few people around. It seems like the center has only recently re-opened after being closed down for Covid-19. In fact, the whole downtown area is quite deserted - its really creepy, in a way!
The weather today is sunny and mild, although there's still a lot of smoke in the valley.
After visiting downtown, we drove about 30 minutes up to Park City on I-80 to meet John for lunch. He doesn't live right in Park City, but a "suburb" called Kimball Junction. Its all new with lots of apartments, condos, restaurants, anything you could want. Very attractive. And very monied. John has a small two bedroom condo in walking distance of everything. It adjoins a 1000 acre nature preserve and has access to a paved bike path that goes for many miles, up to Park City itself. There are three major ski areas here.
After a great outdoor lunch at Hearth and Hill John drove us on a tour of "Old Town Park City" about 5 miles further up the hill. Lots of art galleries, quirky eateries and pubs. A ski lift passes right over the main drag.
We were back in SLC by 6:00 and a light supper at Denny's, followed by Yankees vs. Rays on TV!
Tomorrow we had south toward Cedar City, with stops at IKEA and Thanksgiving Point.
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