We decided to stay in Spring City at a bed and breakfast called the Osborne Inn. It was a great little place. Spring City is well known for having more historic homes than any other city in Utah. It's listed on the national registry of historic places.
Our B&B - The Osborne Inn
The largest upstairs room in the home served as a jail for a time. Tradition has it that this stair rail was built by a prisoner of the jail in order to repay the lady of the house for cooking his meals.
The balcony to our room.
Our room.
Detail on the window to our balcony.
The inn has bikes free to use to tour the historic homes of the little town. David talked me into going on a bike ride and it turned out to be a blast. I don't remember the last time I was on a bike. My bike was one of those beach cruiser types and I loved it. I think I need one of those.
While riding, we saw these deer in a yard. They jumped a high fence and were just looking at us. It was pretty cool.
Orson Hyde home
School house and fire house
Gas station
School houseWe went to the Manti Pageant, just like we did the night before we got married. We ate Navajo tacos, which we did back then too. One thing that was new were the protestors. It was all very peaceful, but strange. There were a lot of policemen making sure things stayed calm.
The Manti temple is beautiful, especially at night. This picture looks like daytime, but it was completely dark when we took it, the temple was all lit up.
The next morning we went to the temple and went inside. It is so beautiful. There are remarkable murals painted by Minerva Teichert.
On the way home, a semi hauling a load of hay caught on fire. (This can happen if hay is baled while it's wet.) It was pretty wild.The best part of all was just being with David. It was nice to just be the two of us, talking and laughing and remembering what it was like when we had time for each other. I think we'll have to do this at least once a year in the future. I sure love my husband!
3 comments:
Yay! What a fun post!
1)Did you buy some Joe Bennion pottery while there? I wish I was still within driving distance so I could purchase a few more pieces...boo.
2)Protesting what? Huh. I don't get it. Why go all the way to some remote location like Manti to protest...take to DC y'all!
The pottery shop was right next to our B&B, but we didn't even go in. We're too poor to buy anything anyway. I think the protest was against the pageant, who knows?! Miss you!
Sounds like fun! we need to do that again too...it's been too long since we've gone anywhere without kids.
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