Luz de Las Naciones

Who wants to make a trip to Salt Lake City?

I do!

Saturday, we made a trip to the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.  We went for "Luz de Las Naciones" cultural event called "My Family. Mi Herencia."  It was "an evening celebrating families, heritage, and latino culture."
Now I don't have latino roots like a lot of people who were in the conference center that night, but I sure can appreciate beauty and there was so much beauty in that event and in the culture represented.  Again, all of us on Earth are children of God so we do have that common heritage and that is also beautiful. 
It was a beautiful night with a beautiful program.  We enjoyed watching it live but they are rebroadcasting it on lds.org right now.  Here is the link.
Jeremy had the opportunity to build some giant (10-14' tall) balloon puppets for this event.  They danced on stage with the other dancers.  That was a lot of fun to watch (and can be seen on the broadcast).  He also built a balloon bouquet like a balloon vendor would hold to hand out balloons.  The balloons looked helium, but they weren't.

There was so much talent to see that night- great music, great singing, great dancing, great balloons, and everyone else who put so much work into it.  Well done on the sound and lighting and sets and just everything.  I'm so glad we went, even if the kids didn't get to bed until really late that night.  We had to stick around after the show for Jeremy to get some of his gear to bring home, then he had to find us in the auditorium (you know the Conference Center is huge, right?) when they made us move from the place he left us when he went backstage (they were really nice about it, though- they were just trying to clear the auditorium after the show).  He kept coming back onstage from backstage and looking around for us then going backstage again.  I was worried he was going to leave a different way and we wouldn't know how to find him.  Finally he came down off the stage and we chased him down before he left.  Phew.  Then we had to drive all the way home and eat something.  Yeah, it was a late night.  But it was so cool.  I am so glad we went.