Merry Christmas, Here comes the bride and bats in the belfrey

We were to the temple yesterday when we noticed some ladders near the trees on the east side of the Conference Center, where we walk to the to the temple each day. We found out, by talking to the workman there, that it was time to start putting up the Christmas lights. The base of each tree was marked by different color flags to show what color of lights were on the tree. Some how seeing Christmas lights on the trees in August didn't really put us in the Christmas spirit. It takes five months to put the lights up and two months to take them down. The special feeling of being on the Square on Christmas time does take some effort.

Today is the eighth of August 2008 or 08/08/08. Three infinity signs if turned on their sides. Well this did not escape the notice of prospective Brides. The Temple was totally overwhelmed with Weddings. There was hardly any room for pictures of the Wedding groups. The outside of the Temple, the fenced in area where pictures are to be taken was a mass of white dresses.
We were preparing to end our shift, 9:00 pm, at the west gate of Temple Square when some maintenance people came by and told us to come and see one of the secrets of the square "bats in the belfry" we went over by the Assembly Hall to watch as the bats emerged from the top of the building they came out by the side of the stained glass window under the moulding, a lot of them. I was not able to get a good picture of the bats but you can see where they came out.

We did Temple session in the morning and ran in to some of our friends from our mission in Nauvoo. They are working as Temple Workers in the Salt lake Temple. We had a good visit with them. There is going to be a Nauvoo Temple Reunion here on September the eighth, our anniversary. Should be great fun.

We had a unusual demonstration outside of the Square yesterday two stupid girls from PETA where taking a shower to protest the amount of water it takes to produce a pound of meat and also the fact that cows produce a large amount of Greenhouse gas. I guess the solution to the world's problems would to stop giving water to animals or some how figuring out to stop them from passing gas.