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We spent Thursday night mounting our flat screen to the wall - that was quite the adventure since this wall was added in order to divide the house in half (you can just make out the handles of the sliding glass doors that used to divide the space.

Flat Screen

On Friday night we tried another restaurant in our neighborhood (our neighborhood is very residential but has an interesting vibe in which there are businesses and restaurants sprinkled in right between homes). This place - Third Avenue Bistro - uses only locally sourced ingredients (we were sitting right next to our tomato source). I had their quinoa burger and Nick had the regular one. Much like the Avenues Proper Brewhouse that we went to a few weeks ago, this place knows how to make an aioli!

Avenues Bistro

The next day we biked over to the Natural History Museum on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail (the shoreline of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville), which would have been better with mountain bikes - we ended up having to walk a good part of it.

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The Natural History Museum did not disappoint - lots and lots of dinosaurs!

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The building is beautiful, but as you can see by this photo, a storm came through and we had to wait a half an hour before biking home!

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We came back via the cemetery - this is a view southwest toward downtown SLC.

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And my latest adventures in cooking - some pork and beef tacos!

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Date: 2013-08-29 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarahmarvelous.livejournal.com
Man, SLC seems like the perfect spot for you two. I'm glad there's so much to do outdoors, not that you wouldn't do that wherever you ended up, but it just suits you both.

Also, I've never been interested in visiting Utah before, but you do make it look so fun!

Date: 2013-08-29 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brdgt.livejournal.com
Haha - I should start working for their tourism bureau! This weekend we are going to go to Temple Square and do all the free Mormon history stuff - I can't wait!

Date: 2013-08-29 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] monkeyhouse.livejournal.com
i'm loving all these photos of your new environment.

Date: 2013-08-29 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brdgt.livejournal.com
Thanks!

Date: 2013-08-29 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squiggle.livejournal.com
perfect home for your books! but i think you might need a bigger tv!

i spent a day in SLC and was really fascinated by the mormon stuff. looking forward to hearing your take on it.

Date: 2013-08-29 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brdgt.livejournal.com
I know, right? We did make sure to buy a wall mount that supported up to a 60 or 70" screen for future uses :)

So far the Mormon stuff has been... minimal. We live in the most liberal part of SLC (not that Mormons can't be liberal, but we're not running into them at the brewpub or in Nick's department) and the city itself is only 30% LDS. You notice it in little ways - the liquor laws are quirky, people dress really nice on Sundays, and the historical markers all have to do with the pioneers and the church. I'm actually really looking forward to checking out Temple Square this weekend and getting my Mormon history on :)

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