Oquirrh Mountain Temple

So, on Wednesday Kurtis decided to take the day off and told the girls to decide what they wanted to do. We had many ideas for what to do, but when it came down to it they decided they wanted to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open house. So when Mike got done with Drill we headed on up. It was a very interesting day and for all the entertainment we had we got off pretty darn cheap. We still joke about how cheap our day was......or just how cheap we are. So it started out like this, we were trying to decide where to go for lunch when I remembered that I still had a gift card from about a year and a half ago that was good for either Chilies or Macaroni Grill. So we decided to go to Macaroni Grill. Sam and Steph had the kids meals (Sam only has a few more weeks to qualify for a kid meal) Me and Mike shared a meal and Kurtis had a lunch special. With the tip and meal, we only ended up paying about $15 for our lunch. Not to bad for Macaroni Grill. Then of course we went to the temple open house. The temple was very pretty. The lights in the celestial room were just radient. The temple from the oustside seemed pretty small but from the inside was good sized. The colors inside were a littled muted, I pictured brighter more white color, but it still was amazing. They had the water and cookies afterward, and I had the oatmeal rasin cookie......they were soooooo good! So we had a nice tour of the temple and snacks to boot.....of course free of charge. We then took a ride through the community of Daybreak. That was quite entertaining. I loved the variety of house styles. Each house was unique, and built as if from different time periods. Most of the driveways were hidden behind the homes with a little road through each block for everyone to enter from. There were lots of ponds where everyone played on it like it was a beach. It was fun. And for anyone who knows what Sam likes to do for fun...well this was up her alley! She loves looking at homes. So that was free entertainment. Then Kurtis had a gift card he needed to use up from Cabellas that he had got for Christmas. We went there looking for a certain item, but of course they didn't have what we were looking for so we ended up buying Kurtis 3 shirts which was a buy two get one free deal.....can't beat that. Then still had money left over so Sam and Steph bought beef jerky, Mike bought peach rings, and I bought 2 bags of horehound candy and some Cinnamon bears. After the gift certificate we only had to pay 79 cents. Not to shabby. Then by the time we were heading home it was almost dinner time. I didn't have time to make dinner because Kurtis had a ball game at 6:00 so we stopped at Arbys and got their buy any drink and get a sandwich for free deal. Which ended up costing us about $7.00. Again not to shabby. So that was our day of entertainment and I think we got off pretty cheap. So we probably ended up only spending around 23 dollars for a whole day of family entertainment. You can't beat that! Wish all family entertainment could be that cheap!