Tuesday the 3rd: DAY 6

Today was a relaxed day because we were to stay in Salt Lake and visit a few friends of Jamie's. Amy and Brennan were at work and school for the first half of the day, so we went out to brunch with Trisha. She really wanted crepes so we looked up a place online. After getting lost a few times we finally made it to the restaurant only to discover it was no longer there but had been replaced by a Philly Cheesesteak place. So we decided to go to the Italian restaurant next door. Here we had a delicious Margherita pizza and fantastic dessert of chocolate cake with Italian cream. It was quite delicious.

(That's a LIE! Ashley is so funny because she will spare no verbiage while describing a days meals, but when giving guilty desserts she falls shamefully shy of the truth. We each ordered a different dessert. One was a chocolate and Italian cream cake with white and dark chocolate shavings. The second was a cream topped chocolate cake with fresh strawberries layered in the whipped filling and frosting. The third was a warm apple pie-lette, served a la mode with French vanilla ice-cream. You may be asking yourself "now what's so shameful about that?" The answer my friends lies in the proportions served to us (which, mind you, we had no control or inkling of). Each piece of cake was literally a fourth of a four tiered 8"round cake. And the apple pie-lette was actually a pie, just wrapped funny to be fancy)

We then headed back to Amy’s where Trisha, Jamie, Amy, and I all sat on the floor and chatted for a while. Amy, Trisha and Jamie got all caught up and were just having fun seeing each other again.

(Psst- Amy is almost halfway through her first pregnancy! Don't tell her I told!)

Trisha had to leave to get back home after a while, so then Amy, Brennan, Jamie, and I headed to temple square in downtown Salt Lake. We did not have time to walk around to all the buildings, but we were able to walk around the temple and see a movie about Joseph Smith. The movie was fantastic! It really made us realize the sacrifices Joseph Smith and the early saints made to restore the Gospel. We also thought it was neat to have been in Nauvoo and then to travel to Salt Lake. We were able to see the distance and topography the pioneers traveled by foot as they too started their trek in Nauvoo and finished in Salt Lake.

After the movie we were going to head to Café Rio because I was told I needed to have their pork salad, but it was closed by the time we made it there, so we settled for a bowl of cereal, goodbye hugs, and an early bedtime back at Amy and Brenan’s house.