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I went on a recruiting trip to BYU, and we had a few hours to kill waiting for a plane in Salt Lake City, so we went in to Temple Square to look around. This is the main temple.

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Inscriptions that talk about the Mormon faith.

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The visitor center had a model of Jerusalem at the time of Christ's death.

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It also had a lot of nice artwork depicting scenes from the Bible - here's John the Baptist baptizing Jesus.

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At the top of the visitor's center there was an open space with a nice painting of the sky in the background.

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Inside the Mormon Tabernacle - it's smaller than it looks!

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We drove up to a hill and looked down on Salt Lake City, which was pretty neat. The ever-present mountains in the background never let you forget where you are!

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The streets are laid out in a very logical grid - even most street names are just a number and then a cardinal direction (the direction it is from Temple Square). Elegant!

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There's Utah's Capitol building.

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BYU has a good computer graphics department, and there were posters all over from Pixar and Dreamworks movies. After seeing this statue of Po (from Kung Fu Panda), I knew I wanted a picture with him :-)

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We went out to dinner at a nice outdoor mall in Provo. I'm not sure why things were lit up, given that it was the end of January, but it was a nice effect.