Utah: The Beehive State (Part 1)

I remember watching the Winter Olympics when I was in 2nd grade and thinking that it was so cool that the Olympics were being held in the United States. (I also thought that Sarah Hughes was a fascinating skater, but that's beside the point.)
I remember back in 4th grade (Fall 2003), we were in Social Studies talking about maps and different types of climates. Usually I was pretty good about paying attention in class, but I don't remember a thing that was discussed that day. I just remember looking at all the pictures of beautiful landscapes, especially a photo of red and orange arches, which, upon further inspection of the caption, were of arches at Zion National Park in southern Utah. Now, to just see them in person...
A decade later, I finally made my desired trip to Utah. No, I didn't get to see the arches (hopefully on another trip), but I made it to the 2002 Olympic city, Salt Lake City, and saw the sites. My goodness, it was gorgeous.
I'll tell the story in pictures.

Welcome to Utah...at 7-something in the morning. What a beautiful sight!

Breakfast stop to visit a good friend and one of my old missionary-teachers. Food was good and company was great. And the city was Bountiful. :)

The Bountiful Utah Temple. It was on a hill and you could see so much of the Salt Lake Valley from up there. It was awesome.

After all day in the city, we came home for dinner. While we were waiting for our pizza, we realized that we didn't have any napkins...so T.P. would have to do.

Salt Lake's Wal-Mart was intense! Never before had we seen a Wal-Mart that had a 2-story parking garage and escalators inside.

U of U Utes, or BYU Cougars?