Touring the LDS Conference Center

This year we finally took our kids to the LDS Conference Center for a tour. For those of you not of my particular faith, this building is where the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs, and more importantly, this is where our prophet and apostles gather to broadcast General Conference to our members around the world twice each year. It holds a special place in my heart and I was eager to show our children this unique building.

Highlights include-

The children loved entering the huge conference room and 'oohing' over the 21,000 seats and the cavernous size of the room.

The rooftop gardens were surprisingly beautiful.We could scarcely tell we were in downtown Salt Lake City.

The halls of this building are filled with art galleries. We LOVED seeing the originals to many of the paintings we were already familiar with.

Sarah particularly loved the statue collections in the lobby.

Daniel really loved the water fountain- this unique fountain is made from several panels of rippling glass. The water creates the sound of a babbling brook as it rushes over the glass. The sound of rushing water creates a peaceful white noise to fill the large lobbies.

We created wonderful memories and enjoyed exploring someplace new. (And -can you believe it- we toured this place immediately after our long hike from my earlier posts. We didn't even of home and take a nap!)

I'm thankful for the moments like this that we are blessed with.