Utah Olympic Park

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4-Jun-2019 Today we visited Park City Area: - The Utah Olympic Park   This is one of the two Olympic Winter Training Centers for the USA.   This also was the sight for many of the events during the the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic's. After the 2002 Olympics it was decided to keep the site for future training.   The cost to build the site and put on the 2002 Olympics was 2.5 billion dollars and they had a profit of 100 billion dollars. This has been used for park maintance, but several years the Park became self supporting.   We took a tour that went to the top of the 120 meter Ski Jump, the top of the Bobsled, snf yjr Freestyle Pool - Downtown Park City   Prospectors discovered silver in1868 in the area and they soon become Park City Mine owners and made fortunes.   After the mins closed Park City survived until a fire distroyed most of the town. For the few that remained the ski resorts have reinvented the city.

Old Park City Mine train	Park City Downtown

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3-Jun-2019, Today we visited the teo attractions in Salt Lake City - The Cathedral of the Madeleine - The Utah State Capital

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2-Jun-2019, Today we visited the area South/East of Salt Lake City. - Drove up the Big Cottonwood Canyon to about 9000 ft. - Drove up the Little Cottonwood Canyon to about 8000 ft. The Snowbird Sky Resort was still operating.

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1-Jun-2019, Today we visited the Salt Lake City Temple Square. - Toured the Assembly Hall. - Attended an Organ Concert in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. - Attended an Organ Concert in the Conference Center, 5-Jun-2019 - Visted the Family history Library and started a search for our family tree. In the Family History Library we were introduced to the FamilySearch application. We spent over 3 hours with the volunteer tutors learning how to use the application and Working on our family Trees. For the 1st time I learned about my Fathers side of the family and now have 3/4 of my family history ploted back 6 generations and I have learned how to research the remaining 1/4. The missing links are relatives of my Father's Mother. - Visited the Family History Library a 2nd time, 5-Jun-2019

Assembly Hall	Organ, 3,489 pipes / 65 ranks
Salt Lake City Tabernacle Organ, 11,623 pipes / 206 ranks.

The Conference Center Organ, 7,708 pipes / 130 ranks.

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