Gilgal...a wonderful place

Ever heard of it? I hadn't either, but my incredible husband seems to educate me a little bit more every single day.

After Annie and Travis' wedding on Saturday, Matt remembered that the Gilgal Garden was near, so we took a little pit-stop. As mentioned before, this was my very first visit to this special place...and to be honest, I thought it was kind of creepy! It could have been because it was pitch black outside in a backyard. OR it could have been because of a creepy sculpture of an old man head haha But overall it was pretty cool.

The story kind of goes like this... (I don't remember the whole story...) there was a guy a long time ago who was LDS and really liked to sculpt stuff, so he began gathering large pieces of stone throughout Utah and put together this really awesome "art gallery" in his backyard. They're all very symbolic, so you'd have to grab a pamphlet in order to get it all. But it's now actually owned by Utah and open for visit. It's pretty sweet, you should check it out sometime. It's located in Salt Lake City. So here are some pics from our late night visit:



Here's Matt reading some of the poetry engraved on some of the stones. This one had something to do with scattered body parts haha but even though I don't remember the real symbolism (i was tired!), it's not a gross story. I promise.


Books are always sweet


Here's the scary old man head I was telling you about! Along with a wicked sweet grasshopper!


The Joseph Smith Sphinx....go figure...


Blurry poetry....WAY hard to focus in pitch black lighting


We can't get enough of this one


as you can tell...