Salt Lake and Gilgal Garden

This weekend my mom, Aunt Renee and brother Kory came to visit for Hannah's birthday. On Saturday we went out for a little bit of sight seeing. First we went to the Great Salt Lake.

I don't think I'd ever been to that exact spot, so I was pleasantly surprised to find this giant rock to play on.

Hannah actually did really well. I know you can't tell from the pictures, but she was climbing rocks much bigger than she is.

And she got quite a bit of help.

Devan and Kory edited some inappropriate writing in the sand.

Next we went to a park called Gilgal Gardens, another place I'd never seen. Here's what their website had to say about it, "Formerly the secret garden of Salt Lake, Gilgal Sculpture Garden is now a public city park, open daily for the enjoyment of all...Tucked in the middle of the block behind houses and businesses, many are still unaware of its existence and enjoy a true sense of discovery when they visit the garden for the first time. Gilgal Sculpture Garden contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems, and literary texts. As a whole, Gilgal Sculpture Garden is significant as the only identified 'visionary art environment' in Utah." It was designed and built by a man named Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. in his back yard in the 1950s and 60s. It's his artistic interpretation of his faith. There were also tributes to his work of masonry and to his wife.

It was pretty and interesting, but we were already pretty worn out by the time we got there.