Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sierra's Birthday

To celebrate Sierra's 22nd birthday I decided that we should go downtown and grab some lunch at one of our favorite restaurants "City Cakes" and then wander around the University of Utah. We had a very good time! I grabbed my camera and started snapping right after lunch.

The mailbox right outside of the restaurant. I hope you don't mind but I've developed a new love for black and white, so this post will contain all black and whites.

We headed up to the U of U and the day couldn't be anymore perfect. Sun was out and the wind was barely blowing by. Our first stop was to the library and campus center.

The stairs leading up to the campus library. Thought the lines made a very interesting picture. Sierra being cooperative and standing still for a minute for me to take a picture.

After the great stair adventure we headed to the "Center" of campus. The architecture was just awesome.

This is the top of the fountain in the courtyard. Very pretty..

If you look very closely, right next to the light poll is a woman painting the exact opposite of this picture... I thought it was a nice ironic piece of art.


Sierra found a pine cone... she's blowing the dirt off it.

We then headed towards an older area of the campus, which had some great buildings. Many looked like old government offices and museums.


Cool building... bout all that needs to be said about that.

This is Gardner Hall, one of the first buildings built on the University campus.

We decided to start heading home at this point because we needed to change and get into some comfy clothes for dinner. On the way back we saw some great scenes of downtown Salt Lake.

Standing in the middle of the road I was able to capture this shot... Sierra yelling at me the whole time to get out of said road... So glad I ignored her long enough to capture this.

Big Ed's... Serving breakfast all day and famous for their $3.75 cheeseburger and fries. seems like a very classy joint. May have to try it out someday.

And thus ends my U of U adventure. Remember if you know of any cool places I should visit please let me know. I only have so many ideas...

1 comment:

  1. well now I am going to have to go check out that area. I still want to wait a little longer for them to clean up some more, but I think I will go soon. Great shots, love the black and white. I have a few, but should see what some of my other shots do with it.

    Also, hopefully my blog will give some great idea's for places to go, well that is if you're up for a hike hehe. And also, since you are into architecture like me as well, you should do the West Temple self guided tour. It sounds awesome!

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