The 5 Days of Lake Powell

We just got back from a very exciting trip to beautiful Lake Powell. Three families, one house boat, two speed boats, and too much cereal.

On the 1st day of Lake Powell there was...

Loading the boat up with all our junk to get on the house boat...as quickly as possible. We did manage it in one trip (lucky us!). We settled in and unpacked everything! A few people were anxious to get out on the water and went water skiing and wake boarding. I wasn't quite ready for that yet....

On the 2nd day of Lake Powell there was.....

Glassy water. Perfect for water skiing! Did I want to learn now? Nope. We also took a hike farther down on the beach we were staying on. This is when Nixon decided to go cliff jumping and broke his arm. Poor thing! Second day and a broken arm.

That's the scene of the accident. Pretty depressing. I love how my mom took a picture of it though! Later on, while they left to go to the doctor's office, three of the many boys took a tube ride. It was intense! Did I want to get in the water though... Nope. I just took some pictures and went along for the boat ride. The three boys on the tube seemed to have fun catching a lot of air though!

This is the air.

This is the landing.

They ended up all tangled and upside down.

It was hilarious.

On the 3rd day of Lake Powell.......

We boated to another part of the lake and hiked to some Indian ruins. It was pretty hot outside and by the end of the journey, even I was ready to get in the cool refreshing lake. I don't know how we didn't end up with any pictures of the actual ruins, but this was my family when we got to the top. It was fun... and hot!

Also, I got in the tube. Complete with a dry suit because I didn't want to get wet. Dry suits are amazing. That's all I have to say. Then I got off my first ride in the tube and decided I didn't get very wet so I didn't need the dry suit to go tubing after all.

Then we went to another beach (that had some more shallow water so it was warmer!) and played in the water and the sand.

On the 4th day of Lake Powell.....

I attempted to wake board (with the nice purple dry suit. Thanks Nic for letting me use your dry suit which is actually a girl's dry suit... but we won't go into that) . After a frustrating 20 (according to Nic. I think it was really only like 8 or so...) tries of trying to get up and stay up, I finally got up and stayed up for a short while. It was so fun. And tiring!! Talk about muscles dancers don't use! In all the pictures I look very angry. But I was really just concentrating really hard to not fall. This is what most of my tries ended up looking like though....

On the 5th (and final) day of Lake Powell.......

There are no other pictures to put. But... I went wake boarding again (even though I woke up and could barely move my body!) and got up every time and was able to stay up! I also had some interesting falls too. My favorite fall was the day before, and we have it on video!

We also went tubing one last time. This time, for the first time in the history of the tube we were using, it flipped. Easton, Wade, and Kip all got catapulted from the tube!

We also had to make stops to the poop dock (I didn't go on this little adventure) and the gas station, and we cleaned the whole boat. Said our thank yous and goodbyes and were on our way home.

It was such a fun vacation with 2 other really great families like mine!

Some details that happened everyday....

• We played lots of card games. But especially Nic and I. We played a lot of speed. He only beat me twice though.. and is pretty bitter about it. And also very determined to beat me again, until he can beat me at least twice in a row. We're going to be playing cards for a long time!
• Between the 3 families... we probably had around 20 boxes of cereal, lots of bagels, and too much food in general. That's ok though.. better safe than sorry!
• We slept under the stars on the top of the house boat. This is when I learned that my dad snores A LOT! And that I don't do well sleeping in a space with a lot of other people.
• We got to know the other families really well and made some friendships that will last for a long time. If the people I spent these 5 days with can still talk to me after seeing me with messy hair, no make-up, and totally myself, then I have some pretty great friends.
• Somehow I adopted some more little brothers. And two little sisters (finally!). We all had fun.. and it's sort of like we're all family now.