Day XIV - Leaving Yellowstone, Potato Museum, Downtown Salt Lake City, The Mormon Church, Johnny's on Second & LOTS of Train Time

We woke up today and well, present Conor & Ryan were pretty concerned that we wouldn't be able to get out of town, but the roads were now open, and although a little sketchy, we should be able to leave! Yay!


We kept on driving and eventually the packed snow turned to slush, and then faded away and we were back driving on normal roads.  We stopped in Idaho Falls, for what other than the Potato Museum!  We saw the worlds (sadly, broken) potato chip, and learned all kinds os spuddy stuff.
Naturally, then we had to get a baked potato!  So we stopped at Martha's Cafe in Idaho Falls (we both highly recommend the baked potato experience there!).



Getting back to SLC, we returned the rental car and got an Uber downtown after asking our old hotel if they could hold our bags for a couple hours (they did!).  After some quick tourist shopping, we made a list of a few of our must-see's in Salt Lake City.  Naturally, we had to go to the Mormon Church, The Mormon Office Building, and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, which were all very impressive buildings dominating the skyline of Salt Lake City.

After walking around the church grounds, and talking with a few people there, we walked around and saw a flower garden which was Brigham Young's original house.  We left the church and took a stroll down the Center Creek Shopping Center, which was an amazing shopping center in the middle of downtown with a creek that goes through the entire length of the center.

At this point, we were running a bit short on time, and since we wanted to make sure we took a look at some of the nightlife SLC had to offer, we made our way to Johnny's on Second after a bit of indecision.  Johnny's on Second was an excellent place.  We highly recommend the $4 "Shot & a Beer", and the chicken quesadilla wasn't half bad either!

We decided to play one of those bar-games that sort of looks like a slot-machine-virtual-poker-video-game-type-of-thing.  Well, neither of us had ever played one before, and lets just say this one was definitely rated adults only, which was both completely unexpected for Salt Lake City, and a bit awkward.  Hmm..  Maybe time for another shot & a beer.

It was starting to get pretty late, so we needed to make our way back to the Sheraton to pick up our luggage and then back to the train station for our 11pm train.  After we picked up our luggage, we saw that we were actually about 30 minutes early, so we decided to kill some time in the restaurant/bar of the hotel.  Pretty random, but also awesome, the Harlem Globetrotters had apparently decided to do the same thing!

We finally made it to our train, sat in our seats and found out that it was going to be leaving a bit late. It was around this time exactly that Conor mentioned that she "didn't know what everyone online was complaining about, Amtrak had been just perfect and on time for nearly every stop we'd had far!"

Apparently Mistress fate was listening to Conor Tempt her.