Week 6: Salt Lake City

This weekend I've visited Salt Lake City (SLC), to meet my parents and to show them around Utah and also to meet some exchange students to check out the nightlife in SLC. I arrived early in the afternoon in Salt Lake City knowing that my parents stayed at the Marriott. Although I didn't knew that Salt Lake City has 5 Marriott's, my second guess was fortunately the right one and I was happy to find my folks there.
We decided to explore the city almost right away and my father showed me the car he had rented. It turned out to be the massive Hummer H2, the huge car/tank. Nice to know we would be cruising around Utah in style.
The main attraction in Salt Lake City has got to be Temple Square, and although I had been there at the beginning of my trip with Haley, it was sure nice to come back there. After a small guided tour though the Latter-Day Saints/Mormon history we decided to go back to our hotel, after getting something to eat at the local grill house.
Later that night I joined some international students and we visited some of the local bars and clubs. The nightlife sure is different in Utah though; no dance music what so ever, only R&B, and the funny thing is that in clubs there are TV screens showing the video clip of the song being played. I was surprised that after a few beers I still felt 100% sober. It turns out that in Utah all beers, even imported ones, contain only 3% alcohol, which actually explained a lot.
The next day we drove our car to Park City, the center of the Winter Olympics 2002. The weather in Utah can be really unreliable, the first day it was around 23 degrees and sunny, the next day it was snowing and only 5 degrees. Actually this was pretty nice since it gave Park City more the image it had during the Winter Olympics. After having some fun at Park City, we drove back in the snow (which was no problem for the Hummer), and had some dinner at an All American steak house.
The next day we went to Logan, where the university is. We took a stop at Antelope Island, an island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. The weather was again great and we spend quite some time on the Island enjoying it. The rest of the day I have showed my parents around campus and we had some dinner down-town.

The next morning I woke up by a sms, with the great news that my brother's girlfriend gave birth to a healthy daughter, Leyla. This was absolutely great news and my parents were able to leave that very next day to Spain to visit them. All in all, a great weekend!