What a busy day! We started the morning with “Breakfast with Santa” at the hotel. Santa came down and sat with us and after breakfast we took a few photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus. The kids loved it!

After breakfast, we drove over to the Utah State Capitol building and did a quick tour of the building. It is a fascinating building built on marble and granite. The dome has spectacular oil paintings adorning the inner dome.

Pictured above is the Utah State Capitol building and below is the partial inner dome.

After the State Capitol visit, we headed over to the Gateway shopping center where our first stop was the Clarke Planetarium. The kids had fun learning about the solar system and how much we would all weigh if we were standing on a neutron star. The kids got to touch a 4.5 billion year old rock and take photos of Bart and Lisa on Mars and the Moon.

We did a little shopping at the gift shops and headed for lunch over at AppleBees since that seemed to be the most agreeable place for everyone. The day was fairly cold with snow flurries starting and stopping randomly but the outdoor shopping mall has an amazing gas powered fireplace where people can stop by and warm up in between shopping.

After our shopping trip, we decided to go for a drive and opted to head over to Antelope Island State Park which is essentially a small island inside the Salt Lake. We managed to get spectacular photos and views of the mountain range and did manage to spot a few buffalo on the island. We drove the island and headed out before the sunset. It is the Park’s policy to close the bridge from the mainland to the island after sunset.

After our long day, we stopped for a quick dinner at McDonalds (for the kids) and then headed back to the hotel. We spent the evening in the heated indoor pool and jacuzzi before we turned in for bed.

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