In my eyes there is nothing more beautiful than the Salt Lake Temple, but add a bunch of Christmas lights, and the result is unbelievable!! (Notice the flag in the 2nd picture is at half staff. That is in memory of Elder Wirthlin who passed away the evening before. Good for you, Elder Wirthlin!!)
As a family we have decided to spend more time together this Christmas season and forgo the busy, hectic Christmas rush searching for gifts. Our first activity was to go to Temple Square and look at the lights. The ride on Trax was most memorable, and a definite 'blog moment'. A young man boarded a few stops after ours, and was very festive; his hair was in spikes all over his head, he had so many tattoos that they all blended together, he was wearing tight, girl pants, which is probably a good thing because he had so many chains dangling from the pockets that if they hadn't been tight, they would have been falling off! Luckily, Alex didn't see him when he got on. I say "luckily" because as soon as we all saw this gentleman, we all were worried about what Alex would say. PHEW! Nothing!! At least for 10 minutes, then he got a good look at this character. Alex turned to me and said, "Nice costume!" The attention was quickly diverted from pokey hair to 2 more men that entered the train; the first a tiny man who looked homeless, and the second man still smoking his cigarette. Wrong thing to do around Alex!! The first man just went 1 stop, so stood up soon after sitting down and walked toward the door preparing to leave, just as Alex got the guts up to say - or should I say yell - "NO SMOKING!!" The smoking man didn't hear him, but the poor tiny man stopped, looked at Al, and said, "I'm not smoking. Smoking is dumb!" To which Alex replied, "You tell him!" This was a very serious confrontation, and Alex meant what he said!!
Well, we thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful sights at Temple Square and headed home later in the evening back on Trax. Alex noticed his reflection in the window and sat and pulled funny faces at himself - and at the people in the cars sitting near the train that Alex couldn't see because they were in the dark. I'm sure more than one person replied, "Look at that funny looking kid!" Then, Alex realized his buddies weren't on the train, and asked, "Where's porcupine guy!!"
Gotta love it!! So, Merry Christmas Porcupine Guy, Smoking Man and Tiny guy!! Hope you enjoyed your evening as much as we did!!
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