Is what we heard as we sat outside this restaurant that was recommended to us. It's called Mayan Adventure. Oh, by the way, yes we made it to Salt Lake City. We got to the city about 4:30pm and got checked into our hotel before venturing out for dinner. We have a hotel room in the Radisson with a sleep number bed! Oh, and they're not worth it...at least we don't think so. Unless the thing works for you, then that's cool. Anyway, we decided to venture out about 20 minutes out of the city to this Mayan restaurant. It took about 30 minutes to be seated but that's not really bad because as you already might know, the Salt Lake area is majorly LDS and a lot of things are closed on Sundays, which means that there's hardly any traffic on the streets! So, we thought that no matter what the wait, we were sure it'd be worth it! When we sat down in the lobby while waiting on our table, the restaurant had all these background noises like a rainforest would have--along with flickering lights to make it seem like we were in some sort of cave or something. There were old pots sitting around and large boxes piled on top of each other, some with the word "specimen" on them. HA! Our name was finally called and we were led into the eating area portion of the restaurant. The dining area was dark except for those few flickering lights and multicolored lights for mood/tropical feeling. In the middle of everyone was a huge cliff with a large body of water that was, of course, fenced in so that we wouldn't jump in. Kyle and I were seated at the side of the pool and were soothed by running water off of the cliff. As we were waiting on our drinks to be brought out, this person walked out from a door with tribal clothing on and a head piece and started yelling at us--we couldn't really understand it for all the water sounds and background forest calls. All of a sudden, there was a HUGE splash in the pool--and then another! and another! There were people standing on top of that cliff and they were jumping off and doing flips into the water!!! Where we were seated, though, we couldn't exactly see why they were doing it. So, we got up and walked to the front of the exhibit (I guess you could call it that). The person with all the tribal stuff on was doing some sort of ritual play acting type thing. There was a voice that was recorded and would play every few minutes between the diving that we guess was explaining the rituals but we really couldn't hear it. It was awesome, nonetheless! Unfortunately, we were dummies and forgot to bring the camera! However, the place was pretty dark and the pictures might not have come out so well. Eh...it'll be ok, you'll live.
The food was decent. I mean, it wasn't gourmet or anything but it was good. It was basically a Mexican type of food with your tacos and burritos and whatnot. I know, I know...real authentic, right? Well, regardless, it was a great experience and that place is known as SLC's largest themed restaurant! After dinner, we went back to the hotel and let our food digest a little more before hitting the fitness room. I jogged for about 20 minutes. We also got into the pool after I rinsed off in the shower in the hotel room.
Tomorrow we will stay in the city and go to Temple Square, which is where (you guessed it) the HUGE LDS temple is that is recognized all over! It was begun in 1853 and dedicated in 1893 by the Mormon pioneers. The temple has 6 towers topped with finial spires. Sadly, since we're not LDS we won't be getting any tours into that gigantic place (my information comes from a brochure we picked up in the entryway of the hotel). Oh well, we'll be sure to take plenty of pictures of the outside for ya'll. We might also go see a thirty minute organ recital at the Tabernacle. My friend, Maren, told us to also go see the Family History Museum and maybe see if we can look up any of our family. We probably won't spend a lot of time there but we'll just go out of curiosity. Anyway, I don't want to spoil the rest of the entries so I'll stop here. We'll keep ya posted on the things that we've seen and did over these next 2 days. Love ya!
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