Decmeber 15th-Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert

So from New Plymouth we made our way to meet more Christensen family for the Mormon Tabernacle concert!! We made our way past Burley (we didn't even have time to stop for a visit!! How sad!!) and then headed south to Salt Lake City, UT!!! We were meeting Mom Christensen, Derik & Megan Christensen, Shandarae Williams(nieces and nephew), and Kim Jensen( Derik's date) for the concert. I had made arrangement with my brother, Brek, to meet for dinner and we came up with game plan of what would be some good restaurants to go to, but they all had long waiting time. So our big plans to stop for dinner before we went to the concert were crushed and then we left our plans into Brek's hands cause we couldn't even get reservations for one reason or another at any of the places we'd picked. So our concert was 6:30 pm and lasted about 2 hours. We were so hungry and new it'd be worse by the time we got out.

But we went to the concert and loved every minute of it. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Temple Square Orchestra and Bell Choir performed with the King Singer's from England. I can hardly wait until it comes out on PBS to be seen again. It was wonderful and we even had dancers to watch during a few of the numbers. I only had my cell phone so the picture of the set isn't that wonderful, but it was spectacular and we decided it would be worth putting in for tickets every year!!

But I do suggest that if you go, don't have it on the night that a Jazz game or another ballet!! We took about 50 minutes to drive 3 blocks to Buca di Beppo's the restaurant that Brek was kindly enough get us all reservations for. We didn't walk cause it was really cold out side and I already had blisters on my feet from the walking we already had done, but I'm sure we would have made it there faster had we gone that route. It was painfully slow, especially to start with because we sat with in the 5 car lengths from were we started for over 30 minutes of the travel time. And who could forget when Derik got caught in the intersection on a red light and almost ran over some pedestrians trying to get out of the way!! Here's Buca's during the day light, just down the street from Brek's apartment!!

We were all starving by the time we to got the restaurant, but we enjoyed the food(the lemon chicken with artichokes was my favorite), but it was even better to spend some time with Brek! We don't seem to see him as often as the rest of the family since he lives right there in SLC and not closer to home.

Brek also gave a great Christmas gift of 2 buddy passes to fly on Delta sometime in the next year!! Thanks Brek!! We're so excited to actually be going somewhere for a real vacation!! That means I really need to get my new passport with my new married name!! Anyone been a great vacation that you would strongly suggest?

So I think we left the restaurant about 11:30 pm and still had our drive to South Jordan to stay with the Larsen's (Chad's cousins). They were gracious enough to put us all up for the night and we didn't get settled until about 1:30 in the morning!! What great sports!