The tribes began to gather this week for the holidays. Jonny and Jenny arrived first December 15, our Midwest tribe from Chicago. "How does Salt Lake City look?" I asked Jonny as he drove in from the airport. "It looks like hell," he said. "It's so smoggy I can't breathe." The pilgrims don't always appreciate Jerusalem. Jonny has a list of his favorite SLC restaurants, which he tries to visit each time he's here--Lugano, Market Street Broiler, Red Iguana, Ruth's Diner. We treated Jonny and Jenny to brunch at Ruth's Diner on Saturday morning.
We tried the mile-high biscuits...
and the breakfast sandwiches and "Amigos plate."
"Why is this place special to you?" I asked Jonny. "It's the location," he said. "You're completely surrounded by the canyon and then you celebrate all that nature with good food." On our way home, we stopped at the new Museum of Natural History. It had stunning architecture inside and out.
The jagged vertical spaces were designed to look like canyons, and the outside was covered with tons of Utah copper donated by Rio Tinto.
The exhibits were also Utah-themed and excellent, especially the collection of dinosaur and early mammal and reptile bones.
The next tribe to arrive was the Eberts from the East.
The tribes began to gather this week for the holidays. Jonny and Jenny arrived first December 15, our Midwest tribe from Chicago. "How does Salt Lake City look?" I asked Jonny as he drove in from the airport. "It looks like hell," he said. "It's so smoggy I can't breathe." The pilgrims don't always appreciate Jerusalem. Jonny has a list of his favorite SLC restaurants, which he tries to visit each time he's here--Lugano, Market Street Broiler, Red Iguana, Ruth's Diner. We treated Jonny and Jenny to brunch at Ruth's Diner on Saturday morning.
We tried the mile-high biscuits...
and the breakfast sandwiches and "Amigos plate."
"Why is this place special to you?" I asked Jonny. "It's the location," he said. "You're completely surrounded by the canyon and then you celebrate all that nature with good food." On our way home, we stopped at the new Museum of Natural History. It had stunning architecture inside and out.
The jagged vertical spaces were designed to look like canyons, and the outside was covered with tons of Utah copper donated by Rio Tinto.
The exhibits were also Utah-themed and excellent, especially the collection of dinosaur and early mammal and reptile bones.
The next tribe to arrive was the Eberts from the East.
They came from Boston by way of Columbus, Ohio. We invited Dave's Mom and Darrell to join us for supper and good talk.
Sophia showed off her newly lost tooth.
We are eagerly awaiting the tribes from the north which, it has been foretold, will eventually arrive.
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