lovin lake powell

8.6-9.15

My favorite 4 days of the year has come and gone!!!

Our family and Hughes headed to Kanab on Wednesday

to stay in a hotel and just chill that night... The kids 

and I had a late night run to Wendy's for a treat!!!

Thursday morning we were on the lake by 9:30 and our

plan was to head to our usual spot at Gunsight.

There were about 4 houseboats on the beach but one of 

them were leaving that afternoon so we just hung out off

to the side until they left. There was a little drama but it all

worked out and we got our beach!!!! We got camp set up and

the kids were ready to go tubing... I was ready to paddle board 

so it was a win/win! The usual gang made the trip again

Laub's, Hughes, Graves, Ludvigson's and us along with

Decker! Friday we got rained out, the 6 years we've been 

doing this trip we've never been rained out for one complete

day. So we hung out on the beach under a pop up or in the boat 

with a tarp over us.... It was miserable but we survived!!!

Once Saturday hit we needed to make up for lost time

so we played hard from sun up to sun down.

We did not do our traditional ride to Dangling Rope

which later would not turn out so well!

We did head up West Canyon and we did the hike

we did a few years ago. It was so pretty and it's 

always fun to see how things change with the water

level being different. We also went cliff jumping today!

Sunday we played until 3ish and headed for the dock.

Of course a storm was rolling in and it got nasty 

real quick. About 2 miles out we ran out of gas

and Wade had to tow us in which made for an

adventure. We were getting soaked between the rain 

and the waves coming over the boat. We were quite the

sight! As we approached the dock, Mason was up front with

a rope to tie off. Well we were heading in fast and had no 

way of stopping and Mason tried stopping us with his legs

which could have resulted in something very bad. But it 

just scared everyone and pinched his leg, Decker hit the 

window with his lip and Brooklin hit her head on the steering

wheel... we hit pretty hard. Everyone is ok and we were 

saying a prayer!!!! We made our usual stop at Wendy's in 

Kanab on our way home and I think we hit Mesquite

around 10pm Sunday night!

I love Lake Powell and despite our one bad day of weather

everyone had a blast! The kids all got along for the most part

and kept themselves occupied. The paddle boards are a huge 

hit with everyone!!! Brooklin wakeboarded and the boys 

kneeboarded and everyone loves tubing!!! This year we

 even did a water slide which was a riot and everyone

got in on the action. The people before had dug one out so 

we fixed theirs up and had a great time!!!

Here's to another year in the books.....