On November 14, Joan Pappa, her sister-in-law Polly, and I (Patsy) left DFW on American Airlines headed to Salt Lake, Utah for 8 days. Mary Ganey flew into Utah from San Antonio and met us at the Airport.
The flight was fantastic and I was clicking pictures with my camera out of the airplane window as fast as I could do it. The mountains with snow were breath taking to see. Just before landing in Utah, we ran into a snow storm and the view from the airplane window was like cotton balls.
I was praying that we didn't hit a mountain when we landed, but it a safe landing. There were snow flakes as big as a quarter falling from the sky and for a native Texan, it was a miracle. We rented an SUV, had lunch at a Utah style Mexican restaurant and finally headed out to the Jeremy Ranch Condos near Park Cities. It was snowing hard and making the roads very hazardous. After stopping at Albertson's, we made it to the Condo. Our plans for Sunday were to make a trip to the lake, but black ice kept us in the Condo.
Monday morning, we headed to the LDS Library at Salt Lake. This is an experience that all genealogists should have at least once in their lifetime. There are 3 floors with a basement and sub-basement. We began our research on the 2nd Floor which contains books on all the states and Canada. Joan told us to prepare before going by locating information we were searching for on the internet. This way we knew which sections to look in to find our books.
The front half of each floor has tables to set up your laptops and supplies. It is advisable to take along a cable lock for your computer so that you can look at the shelves without worrying about your belongings. You can even go to another floor by doing this without having to pack everything up. There are also tables with research computers you can use if you don't have a laptop next to the worktables on each floor.
I copied about 200 pages or more which I brought home to review, but I was also able to scan documents onto my flash drive. The workers were very helpful with locating our items. They even had someone who could translate pages from foreign books. Just about anything you need, could be found there.
The temple across the street is beautiful and has lights on it at night. They are open Mondays from 9:00 to 5:00 p.m. then the rest of the week they are open from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
When we left on November 21, a snow storm was coming into Salt Lake and our take off was a little bumpy, but safe.
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