7/6/2014 Firsties Day Two Recounting Day 1-2

Today we probably went to the worst smelling place in the world, even worse than my sister two which is REALLY hard to beat. We went to Salt Lake City in Utah (Yes, in the U.S.) and we had a four hour delay and we left at around 10:30 P.M. and my two sisters and my mom and dad were sleeping but I was hyper, probably from Dylan's Candy Bar. My older sister ( No. 1) was ready to punch me in the face because I just had to do something and that something was talking to her but she was really, really tired and of course, with our luck, when we arrived it was around 2:30 and we got our rental car except it was a different one from what we wanted but it's still pretty nice. Luckily, my hyperactivity wore off and I was exhausted so we arrived at the Sheraton after a short ride and got some nice rooms since we were SPG (Starwood Preferred Guests) and of course, continuing with this unlucky day, I got the SPG room with sister one and two. While, my mom and dad got the club level and got a dang MINI FRIDGE!!!! All in all, we had a good sleep of about 4-6 hours (Don't really know, don't really care) which strangely filled me with energy. We had the greatest breakfast of me eating a really sweet danish. Later I figured it was a bad choice because of the night before becoming super hyper but the best thing already happened, and I got my own camera from Sister 1 (Worth 600$!!!!!) and I was very happy. Since the nearest thing to exciting was a McDonald's I just took a picture.

Then, my sister 1 taught me the beginners stuff and I was really excited. Looking back at most of my pictures though, made them look really blurry around the edges and slanted and were pretty bad. We went to a mall, the state capitol, learned the great fact that this city was the only actual "city" in Utah, and ate at some great places. We stocked up on food and water for the two week trip from Target and found fireworks that could have been easily set off inside. I feel like that we still didn't get enough stuff for that period of time but we could not pack up like campers because of our luggage and our car problems. But later in the day, we went to the actual Great Salt Lake and according to Sister 1 it was made when half of North America now was underwater it turned into a valley with sea water in it so it became a salt lake and after so much time the salt condensed and is 4-8 times as salty as the ocean. It was one of the worst smells EVER and there were so many flies that the steps to a observation points was covered in them. The while flecks are actually the flies.

I took some great pictures that will be included in the bottom and really liked the view of the mountains around. Also nearby was a copper and gold mine and a huge smelter that was almost as tall as the Empire State Building not including it's point. We looked at some signs and gathered some basic facts. The Great Salt Lake is so salty it is unable to inhabit and living organisms besides bacteria, algae, the flies, and some shrimp. It also said there was an official north and south area of the Great Salt Lake and it was so big that the signs said the Salt "Lake" was actually a sea. We stayed there until 30 minutes after sunset and my sister actually got pretty mad because she is a photographer and she was doing a time lapse of the sun setting which looked beautiful and got it ruined by one guy and his baby who had to walk by the camera at the end and ruin the whole hour thing when she left to get her phone. We took some nice pictures of the sun and I was actually confused for a bit about a sort of beacon that appeared in my lenses but not in the actual picture but I realized it was the sunlight on the lenses.

We also met this guy who was quite literally was homeless and he was native american and he was Navajo and his whole family died. He owned three yachts but he did own four but he sold one. He was kind of stuck there because he had nowhere to go but we talked a bit about the Salt lake but then we were saying some funny jokes like how long is a chinaman's name? And also Knee Hao which was pinting your finger at your knee while raising your hand to show instead of Ni Hao it was Knee Hao and it was pretty funny. We had to leave because it was getting late and it ends with me here, typing on my sister's laptop at eleven P.M. and it already felt like we had a whole trip even though it was two days out of two weeks and I'll be sure to post more daily!