Lake Powell

I think it is pretty obvious that Brett loves the mountains and I love the water.  Not that I don't love the mountains too, but being out on the water is one of my most favorite things.  So I don't think Brett was too up set that I went to Lake Powell with my family while he had to stay home and drill for Guard.  We left Friday afternoon and got to State Line right before dock. We decided not to camp too far away, so we stayed at Wahweap Windows, just across from the Marina.  By the time we got all of our stuff loaded on the boat, drove across the lake, and unloaded all of our stuff it was dark.  So we had to pitch our tents in the dark.

Saturday morning we woke up, ate some breakfast, and hit the water. Only 9 of us could go out on the boat, so it was Dad, Krista, Zack, Wyatt, Lacey, Hunter, and I. My brother in law, Travis, lent us their slolam ski, so I got to ski for the second time this year. Dad even tried!  After skiing we did some wakeboarding.  Wyatt and Hunter both attempted wakeboarding for the first time.

Got up first try!                     Can cross the wake now

Dad's pilot                       Dad slolam

Zack wakeboarding                           Krista had to cut off part 

.                                                            of Zack's toenail before he could

.                                                          go out

Krista wakeboarding                        Lacey wakeboarding

Wyatt's first time                   Hunter's first time

Hunter lost our flag               Me wakeboarding

so we improvised                                            .

And what would a lake trip be without the water weanie! Knox, Krew, and Kastle went out on the weanie before the big kids got their turn.

Knox and Jeremy                       Krew and Meredith

After we got back to the beach we decided to take a break and play there for awhile, while we ate lunch.

Zack skim boarding             Krew on the floaty

Lacey building a sand castle        Floating with mommy

Hunter rowing in the boat      Lacey digging a hole

Dad's famous dribble castle              Kastle and dada floating

We all decided to hike up to Wahweap Windows later that evening after it had cooled down a little bit.  It is a neat archway that has a cave in the middle of it. We got up there and took a picture of everyone that decided to go up there, but while Jeremy was setting up the camera for the picture, Knox decided he needed to go potty (he's being potty trained). Everyone got a pretty good kick out of it.

Wahweap windows                                                     Hiking

Cave inside the arch                   Vertical panoramic of arch

 

Knox ha ha ha

After the hike we all went back, ate dinner, played Catch Phrase, and went to bed.

The kids sand castle                                  Catch Phrase

We had been lucky enough to dodge the bad weather that had been forecast for the whole weekend....until Sunday morning.  We woke up, packed up, and barely got to the loading docks when it started to pour.  Even though it wasn't fun to get soaked on the way out, the weather was great for the rest of it, and it was great to be able to go to the lake!