The rest of our Thanksgiving trip.

On Wednesday my sister Amy flew in from Texas to spend the holiday with us. That day we ate at an Indian buffet in West Hartford where Kira lives. Great food. That was all the excitement that day.

Thursday was Thanksgiving and we got up and started making dinner. What a wonderful dinner we had. Kira was asked to have 4 missionaries over for dinner and they showed up right before dinner was ready. We played some games throughout the day and ate and ate and ate.

Friday morning we drove back to the JFK airport in New York City and began our travel back west. We left super early thinking there would be holiday traffic and it would take a twice as long to get to the airport. Well, it didn't. We arrived at the airport just after 10 am and our flight did not leave until almost 3 pm.We got into SLC at about 9 pm and stayed with our friends, the Loeras. The next day was just a day to chill and relax. After it got dark we went to temple square and looked at all the Christmas lights. What an amazing spirit of Christ there was. There were 2 nativity scenes set up in life like size.

This was gorgeous! It was a nativity set floating on the water with candles floating in it. Above is a close up of Joseph, Mary and Christ. Below shows the SLC temple's reflection in the water.

Here is the other nativity they had there. There were wise men to the east and also shepherds to the west. This scene was big. There was every detail of the story and as people gathered around, over an outside speaker, the story of Christmas was told. Also, at the end modern prophets bore their testimonies of this wonderful occasion.

A picture of the SLC Temple from the street as we were leaving. Beautiful!

After the lights we drove the 3 hours home and arrived safely to our cats at about midnight Saturday night. It was so sad to know it was over, but great to be home.