Day 9- Homeward bound, with a stop in Salt Lake City

After a late night, we were all glad to sleep in a little and then enjoy the breakfast buffet at the hotel. After breakfast, we headed for the Kansas City airport, and again were blessed to board with no difficulties.

After landing in Salt Lake City, we took TRAX to downtown Salt Lake, where we feasted on the amazing buffet at The Roof. Everything was sooooo good. We had a magnificent view of the Salt Lake Temple, and the surrounding buildings. 

Then, we had about an hour before we needed to catch the train back to the airport. Most of us walked around Temple Square, enjoying the visitor's centers, the Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall, and of course, the beautiful Salt Lake Temple. It was a fitting way to end our trip. I am reminded of what President Gordon B. Hinckley said: "Today, facing west, on the high bluff overlooking the city of Nauvoo, thence across the Mississippi, and over the plains of Iowa, there stands Joseph’s temple, a magnificent house of God. Here in the Salt Lake Valley, facing east to that beautiful temple in Nauvoo, stands Brigham’s temple, the Salt Lake Temple. They look toward one another as bookends between which there are volumes that speak of the suffering, the sorrow, the sacrifice, even the deaths of thousands who made the long journey from the Mississippi River to the valley of the Great Salt Lake."

Pictures:

Waiting at the Kansas City airport

 (does anyone know why their airport abbreviation is MCI?)

In the air headed west

On the light rail train from the airport to downtown Salt Lake

Views from the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

 At The Roof buffet restaurant at the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

In the lobby of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

Inside the Tabernacle

The Christus in the North Visitor's Center on Temple Square