(high 103, low 63)
Here we are back again. We spent a great week at the Salt Lake Family History Library. We camped at the Salt Lake City KOA, 14 blocks down the road from the Library. The campground was very nice but the wi-fi had great connection but no bandwidth. Cell phone was good though. The days were warm, the nights also. One day got up to 104 but our recording thermometer said only 89. The evenings were in the low 60s and sleeping was pretty good. Humidity is practically non-existant so we were quite comfortable, especially since we were in the air-conditioned Library.
While there we met two great women, Laura and Doreen, two other Legacy program users. We spent an evening chatting about genealogy, Legacy, etc. They are from the state of Washington, Seattle I believe. They have a very cute poodle mix, Zoey, reddish in color who took a liking to Molly. Molly, however, played hard to get. We’re hoping to get back to the Li brary for another week and hope to see Laura and Doreen again before they go home!
Re genealogy, we found some stuff for ourselves and some stuff for our son in law Bob and his dad. I used the time to look for “hard to find” ancestors to save me from ordering too many films that would not be correct. I finally found a 3rd great-grandmother I had been looking for for several years.
The city and the Mormons jointly run a shuttle from the airport and the KOA to Temple Square. It’s free and runs every half hour. Worked great for us. We’d go to the Library in the a.m. and stay til the last shuttle at 8:30 p.m. I worked mostly on the International Floor where the German records are. Fred worked mostly on the
2nd Floor with the US microfilm. We did take a trip to the 3rd floor where the US books are to look for my church books. They are listed in the Library Catalog (smile)but are shown to be out on loan. I believe they are probably out to be hard covered. I wanted to take a picture of my books on the Library shelf.
The Library was closed on Sunday so we took it easy during the morning and in the afternoon we drove around a bit. I wanted to go up the mountains to see the Great Salt Lake from above. It’s really sad, it’s disappearing. So much of it has dried up.
We took some pics from up above. We also took some pics of the nice new homes they are building on the mountainside. Very lovely, kinda close together though. 
From there, we went across the causeway to Antelope Island, one of three islands in the Great Salt Lake. Along the causeway you can really see how the lake is drying up.
This is a large island where wild pronghorns and buffalo live. We saw very few pronghorns, too far away to get a good picture. There were a few buffalo also. The island is very baren, just roads and mountains. 
At the southern end of the island, there is a home, still on its original foundation, and barns that belonged to the first settler of the island. I got a pic of the old settler on his tractor.
More pictures of the farm...
There was another chuck wagon. Never saw one before and now I've seen three.
This is inside the bunkhouse that slept four.
The main house… 
And the root cellar...
During the week we saw a couple of vehicles from Australia, never saw anything like them before. Perhaps they are used to travel in the outback.
While traveling, we saw our first triple.
We also saw a black and white bird which we think is a black-billed magpie. If you have a different idea, let me know.
After Dazy-D got an oil change at a Camper’s World in Draper, UT, we drove south east today from Salt Lake. We are now at Shady Acres camground in Green River, UT. What we in the east call shady and they out west, are two different things. Off to The Arches National Park tomorrow.
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