Lake Powell

Last week my family got the opportunity to go to Lake Powell. It was really fun! We drove first to Kamas to attend Jodi's Baby Shower. We stayed one night at Jodi's before attempting the eight hour drive to Lake Powell. We were all split up, Lexie with Grandma, Grandpa, and Ali. Kaleb with Derek and Stacy. Sophie and I in the Minni-van with my parents, what a peaceful ride!


Wake boarding
Sophie, my mom, and I all got up on the wake board! I did first day we were there, it took a while but I did eventually! Sophie got up a few days after me, it took her even longer to get up than I did but still did really good! My mom got up on the first try, but she was drug around the lake a few years prior to this in Flamming Gorge. Both Sophie and I are crossing the wake on purpose now.





Tubing
Tubing was another fun thing! Kaleb was the bravest out of all of us...of course! He and I were riding together and the whole time I was holding on for dear life he was giving Derek the thumbs up sign to go faster! Sophie and I also got on the tube together, I thought I was going to die! (I didn't have a picture of Kaleb, Sophie or me on the tube so this is Cam and Livvi)

Fishing
Holy cow! Kaleb caught lots of fish! The first camping spot we were camped at there was fish everywhere! In the mornings and nights you would catch a fish about every other cast! In the afternoons or 'off time to catch fish' you could see billions, I am serious BILLIONS of tiny bass everywhere, only about five feet off the back of the houseboat! It was amazing!

Rainbow Bridge
We decided we wanted to go to Rainbow Bridge before the 10% chance of rain hit. It was really nice weather. The boat ride over was a little chilly, but that was in the front of the boat in the morning with the wind blowing in my face. My dad said that the Indians thought Rainbow Bridge was a holy thing and would never walk under it, always around so he forbid us to go under it. He said it would be bad luck for us.

Bathing

We wanted to save water so we took showers off the back of one of the boats with a heated water

spicket-shower head thing. For the little kids we filled up a cooler with hot water. Good times, Good times.

We would like to thank the following for a great time:

Derek (who provided the boat)

Stacy

Ali

Malia

Sydney

Grandma Maxfield

Grandpa Maxfield (who went all out and wore a swimsuit one day

Cam

Mindi

Livvi

Jax

My mom

My dad

Sophie

Lexie

Kaleb
~~~Thanks for so many great memories....and more to come!~~~