After returning our hire car and spending the evening in the Anchorage Airport departure lounge (our flight to Salt Lake City - via Phoenix - departed at 01.45am so we decided we could save on a night's accommodation!) Not sure why we went via Phoenix as we passed Salt Lake on the way but short of parachuting out of the plane with our luggage in tow we had to go with the flow! We had booked a cheap flight with US airways which involved a connection in Phoenix to board a plane for Salt Lake City. Unfortunately our flight from Alaska arrived late and we missed our connection by seconds (the plane was still on the tarmac but they refused to let us board!) so we had to wait a c
ouple of hours for the next flight. This was overbooked which is apparently normal but they asked for volunteers to give up their seats and take another flight several hours later in return for a $250 voucher towards future flights with US airways. Surprisingly to us they got plenty of volunteers and we got to board the next plane! We were very relieved to finally arrive at our accommodation - the Carlton Hotel - after such a long day! We only had 2 full days in the city so set out the next day (after our included free full cooked breakfast!) to see the sights. What hit us first was that, despite being a Saturday in the middle of August, the city was quiet and seemed almost deserted. So deserted in fact that a c
ouple of guys about 10 floors up in an apartment block waved to us from their balcony and there was no confusion about who they were waving at as there was nobody else on the street! They must have thought "hey look - there ARE other people here - let's make contact!!" It was a very clean and tidy city and the p
eople we did meet were very friendly and helpful but it definitely seemed to be lacking in character and personality somewhat. We did the rounds of the tourist sights on the first day, visiting the Utah state capital building and the Mormon temple. When we arrived at the temple we saw that a wedding was taking place ... then we saw another bride ... and another! All in all we counted 9 brides in total all getting married at the same time on the same day! Later we wandered down to an outdoor shopping mall at the other end of town which had a bit more life a
bout it and, needing to escape from the intense 104 degree heat at this point, went to see "the time travellers wife" in the air conditioned movie theatre. The next day (after another full cooked breakfast!) we set off to walk the nearby City Creek Canyon trail, thinking it would be just a short relaxing hike. It tu
rned out to be 8 miles long and all uphill(!) but we persevered (well we did have that breakfast to work off!) and looked forward to the 8 mile return trip which was all downhill! On our third morning we had to miss our lovely breakfast (we were gutted!) due to having to get a 6.35am Greyhound bus to Glenwood Springs, Colorado which was to be our home for the next week (and where we are at the moment). Sleepily we watched the Utah landscape pass by and looked forward to seeing the lush green slopes of Colorado!
ouple of hours for the next flight. This was overbooked which is apparently normal but they asked for volunteers to give up their seats and take another flight several hours later in return for a $250 voucher towards future flights with US airways. Surprisingly to us they got plenty of volunteers and we got to board the next plane! We were very relieved to finally arrive at our accommodation - the Carlton Hotel - after such a long day! We only had 2 full days in the city so set out the next day (after our included free full cooked breakfast!) to see the sights. What hit us first was that, despite being a Saturday in the middle of August, the city was quiet and seemed almost deserted. So deserted in fact that a c
ouple of guys about 10 floors up in an apartment block waved to us from their balcony and there was no confusion about who they were waving at as there was nobody else on the street! They must have thought "hey look - there ARE other people here - let's make contact!!" It was a very clean and tidy city and the p
eople we did meet were very friendly and helpful but it definitely seemed to be lacking in character and personality somewhat. We did the rounds of the tourist sights on the first day, visiting the Utah state capital building and the Mormon temple. When we arrived at the temple we saw that a wedding was taking place ... then we saw another bride ... and another! All in all we counted 9 brides in total all getting married at the same time on the same day! Later we wandered down to an outdoor shopping mall at the other end of town which had a bit more life a
bout it and, needing to escape from the intense 104 degree heat at this point, went to see "the time travellers wife" in the air conditioned movie theatre. The next day (after another full cooked breakfast!) we set off to walk the nearby City Creek Canyon trail, thinking it would be just a short relaxing hike. It tu
rned out to be 8 miles long and all uphill(!) but we persevered (well we did have that breakfast to work off!) and looked forward to the 8 mile return trip which was all downhill! On our third morning we had to miss our lovely breakfast (we were gutted!) due to having to get a 6.35am Greyhound bus to Glenwood Springs, Colorado which was to be our home for the next week (and where we are at the moment). Sleepily we watched the Utah landscape pass by and looked forward to seeing the lush green slopes of Colorado!
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