Oquirrh Temple Trip

We just arrived home from our YM/YW trip (up and back in one day) to see the Oquirrh Temple open house. (These are my kids in front of the temple.) There were 28 of us--four vehicles full of kids. I'm thankful it went off OK because I was in charge of the activity.

I think this may be my fourth temple open house (St. George remodel open house about 1974, West Jordan, Las Vegas and Oquirrh temples). I thought the decor was very beautiful. It was not what I was expecting and different from what I've seen in some other temples. For instance, today my first counselor had pointed to a chair in one of the rooms and whispered to me, "Funky chair!" There were natural wood doors, door frames and other molding. There was marble on most of the floors. There seemed to be more framed art than I recall from other temples. The chandeliers were amazing! I loved the frosted glass with little diamond clear spots in it. It was smaller than I anticipated. I thought the temple floor plan was very well thought out for traffic flow.

I was completely taken with the planned community surrounding the temple--Daybreak. Several months ago, I'd read about that community in one of my magazines that I subscribed to (before it went out of business) but I hadn't known it was right around the Oquirrh Temple. I could have taken the day to just look around that community. I loved it. I'm a nut for architecture and design. Other than the fact that the lots are city lots (B would prefer some acreage), we'd have to shovel snow and live with snow, and the kids don't want to move anywhere, I was ready to move (you remember that I'm always wanting to move somewhere and this is today's "somewhere").  Here are a few of the houses L managed to photograph as we left town.