Time for another trip into the heart of Salt Lake City. This time the plan was to tour the capitol building, see the Tabernacle at Temple Square and visit the Clark Planetarium.
We parked the car by the capitol building. It was interesting that across the street from the capitol was a normal-looking residential neighborhood. Our tour was led by a very nice docent that fed us with interesting facts about the history of Utah and the capitol building.
We were told the marble for the building was quarried in Georgia. As an interesting, but unsubstantiated side note, we were also told the marble in the Georgia capitol building was from Europe.
About four blocks from the capitol building is Temple Square. It is the heart of the Mormon religion. The entire area is beautifully landscaped with a huge variety of flowers and very welcoming to tourists.
I guess I really had no idea what to expect, but the big gleaming aluminum helmet was certainly not it. It was just as unusual on the inside. Of course, the choir was not singing, but we did get to hear the organ being played. It has more than 11,600 pipes! We learned that the 10 largest pipes are not made of metal at all. Instead, they are made of wood, covered in plaster and then finished with gold leaf.
The old railway station has been refurbished and is now rented out for functions. Inside it is wide open so it can be set up for meetings or weddings or dancing or whatever you might want.
The Clark Planetarium was a museum on our ASTC membership list. Our membership allowed us each admission to a movie in the planetarium (we chose Back to the Moon), and free roam of the very nicely done museum. There were several displays I had not seen before.
Maybe one day I will have a room where I could display a 6 foot diameter globe - I really like globes.
If the moon display only had the moon's gravity, I would have been able to jump more than 6 inches off the ground.
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