Tour de Temple Square

Ezra, Grandma, and I visited Temple Square, mostly for the purpose of finding one of my friends, a former roommate and a fellow intern at The Holden Arboretum from 2001.  She is now one of those really special few-and-far-between people who get to be gardeners on Temple Square.  She is on the crew that takes care of the Relief Society Gardens near the Church Office Building.  One of her co-workers helped us locate her; she was in a cherry picker stringing lights in preparation for the Christmas display.  (Yes, they have already started, in fact, they started putting the lights up August 1).  She is just as cheery and happy as ever; so nice to make connections with old friends!

Ezra loved the tour de Temple Square and was probably overstimulated a dozen times over.  There were golf carts, buses, trains, lots of water, fountains, and flowers all colors of the rainbow.  The little guy had plenty to look at and oodles to point at, and I think he wore himself out with all the observing.  He conked out in his car-seat after about 2.5 minutes in the car, slept all the way home, and took a two-hour nap when we got back to Grandma's house.