Salt Lake Cemetery

 In keeping with Nelson Halloween tradition we put the Salt Lake Cemetery on our Autumn Bucket List.  First we stopped to get Square Pumpkins at Artic Circle for dinner and then we were off.  I truly do love this cemetery and am always overwhelmed with how peaceful and beautiful it is.  Is that strange?  It is one of the high points of Salt Lake City and you can see out over the valley.  Here are some other times we have gone 2010, 2009, 2008. 

 We used to have to bring our map to find the graves, by now we know where they are.  It is always fun however to find one that we haven't seen before.  There are so many church history graves stones in here that we couldn't possibly see them all in one night. 

 The boys' hair was still crazy from their Halloween parties at school.  Lincoln's was grey and Palmer's was getting very puffy from being slicked back all day long.

 The sunset was just perfect and we found this really great tree that had shed most of it's leaves.

 We had to take a minute out from our history hunting excursion to play in these beautiful fall leaves.

 They had the perfect "crunch" to them.  We don't have many trees around our yard so we haven't had much of a chance to jump in them (which was also an item on our bucket list).  We had to take advantage of this great bit pile.

I sure love this tradition.  There is such a reverent feeling around this old cemetery and I think the kids have grown to love to come here as much as Josh and I do.  It is great to take a second and talk about each of the graves that we visit and the people they represent.  We try to tell any good stories about them.  This year I got to tell Palmer some neat stories about Porter Rockwell.  I am gong to need to get some more for next year.