One Million Cookies Served: Draper Temple Trivia

This weekend in the Church News I read about the dedication of the Draper Utah Temple I fixated on something Sarah Jane Weaver shared that caught my immediate attention. I wasn't impressed by the spiritual setting as I have read countless examples of the temple dedication of at least one hundred temples over the last several years. I examined closely what was placed in the cornerstone box but it wasn't overly exciting. I was glad to see which child was highlighted and why. It was nice to see him get his fifteen minutes of fame. All this was nice but the one thing that stood out to me during the open house and proceedings of the dedication was the fact that over one million cookies was served. I wondered who had baked all those cookies. Were they bought from someone like the Mormon Cookie king or did members in the local relief societies bake one million cookies which would have been a vast undertaking. I also wondered how many cookies each visitor received. I thought about my wife telling me you should only take one in a social setting and wondering if I would have taken two or three. In the piece describing people's reactions it mentioned that the soon to be dedicated Oquirrh Mountain Temple would probably even draw a bigger crowd and then I wondered if two million cookies would be served. Then I wished I had been in Utah so I could have gotten my free cookies while visiting the two new temples as an incentive for going. I have attended a few temple dedications in my life but have yet to get a cookie. You can tell my priorities in life are driven by simple basic Maslow needs. I am sure had I had enough cookies I would have move up the hierachy and thought about the spiritual and sublime aspects of the temple.