Iron Mission State Park

For Thanksgiving, my family all headed to Las Vegas for a family reunion and I figured the trip down would be a great opportunity to throw in some Utah Experiences.

So do you remember road trips growing up when your parents would want to stop at silly museums and all us kids would groan and then rack our brains for any reason that we simply could not go. "I forgot my shoes!" "Oh! Darn, sister's asleep." "I'm allergic to _(museum type)_." Trust me, we tried them all.

That's pretty much how I viewed the Iron Mission State Park Museum growing up. We never stopped before, but since I am soooo ma-toor now I thought it could be interesting. And I was right!

Seriously though, it was really cool. The museum tells the story of development in Iron County when, in the 1850s, Brigham Young sent Mormon missionaries there to mine iron.There were:

tons of original carriages




vintage clothes


tons of iron tools from the church's Iron Mission


Lincoln Logs (I built one inside and got outside and someone had copied me with bigger ones!)


tons of pioneer artifacts aaaand...

I thought this guy was a stuffed animal and then he looked up and meowed at me. Haha.

A tour guide told us he is the Iron Mission mascot. (My dad and I debated whether he was a real tour guide because he was kind of just hanging out in the back and then started guiding us. Hmm...? He was way cool though- he even grew up in Zion's National Park. Freaking cool, no?)

Savior of the World: His Birth and Resurrection

Last night, my dad flew into Utah and took me to Savior of the World: His Birth and Resurrection at the Conference Center.



Online almost every nights’ tickets are sold out, but if you go to the ticket office you have a pretty good chance of getting standby tickets. You can call ahead and ask at 801.570.0080. We went a couple of hours before the show started. I would say that you would probably be fine going just an hour before and you could still get good seats. Though, of course this might not hold true the same way on weekend nights.

The show is about two hours long and was really great. The first act is the events leading up to Christ’s birth and the second act is primarily his crucifixion and the events that followed.

The show was really well put together, the performers were all really talented, and I thought the stage was especially cool.

This Christmas lights will soon be up in Temple Square. Great date idea: get hot chocolate in the Joseph Smith Memorial building, walk around and see the beautiful lights, and hit the show.


Schedule and Other Temple Square Events

Geographical Oddity: 4 Hours from Everywhere

Looking at a southern Utah trip this weekend. Any takers?

Flour Girls & Dough Boys

So happy today to take a lunchbreak at my longtime love Flour Girls & Dough Boys. (Discovered via Scott Nibley) I think today may have been the first time I had their lunch food as opposed to just bakery food, but both are so yum.

Favorite desserts: pumpkin bars, shortbread chocolate chip cookies, and cinnamon rolls.

The bakery is so quaint with its trendy decor and it is not too far from Provo, just off the freeway in American Fork.

I didn't get any pictures, but I found these great ones at My Pemberley.


P.S. Yes, I do realize that Experience Utah has taken a recent decline into almost solely food experiences. If you think this has poorly affected the movement's validity, just imagine what it is doing for my health.

P.P.S. Legit Utah Experiences Coming Soon!

Bijou Market

Naomi of the Rockstar Diaries has been talking about the upcoming Bijou Market in Provo, UT.

Sadly, I am out of town and will not get to experience it, but I thought maybe you guys could take the opportunity since I cannot.

Here's what she had to say.

Harley Davidson Grill

Probably anyone who has driven from Provo to Salt Lake City has seen the huge barn structure that houses the Timpanogos Harley Davidson Grill. (Oh ya, and dealership.)


As fun as walking through the crazy cool motorcycles is, their sliders are even better. (Mini- burgers) They have little pulled turkey sandwiches and filet mignon sandwiches too. Personally, I say it is all about the burgers here. The Rickster has bacon, bleu cheese, ... and other delicious things. But who could want more than bleu cheese? Mmm.


Don't forget the shoestring fries. People seem to either love them or be pretty indifferent. To me: they're different and therefore cool.

Oh, How Lovely...

"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night."

-Hal Borland

Sweet...

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
-Robert Browning

Finally...

"I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible."
-Sue Grafton

Thhhhanks.

"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."
William Cullen Bryant

Welcome, Wednesday.

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."
-Stanley Horowitz

So very tired right now...

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
-Albert Camus

BYU-tiful!

I decided that in honor of 1- Experience Utah being featured in the Daily Universe and 2- me being in not Utah [NYC!] I will try to post a photo a day from my BYU campus photo shoot.

Last Sunday I got to thinking that I needed to take advantage of the beautiful autumn colors on campus, so I went and took some pictures. The weather wasn't ideal, but I think the pictures turned out pretty well and it was definitely fun playing on the dead campus all day.

"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne