Lake Powell Family Trip

Ahh this was a fun trip. Jancia and Cam was was wanting to do this trip because its been so long since they have had a real vacation. With Cam doing school has not allowed him to vacation!! So this was a week off for them both and we went to Lake Powell! And hey I'm right along with them!! We left on a early Saturday  morning like 3am so that it would be cooler to travel. We were having some very hot temperatures and we had less traffic to deal with as well. And the road going up to Page Az is still closed so we had to go around through Tuba City. Made the trip a little longer. We got to Page and went right to Wal-mart and shopped  for groceries and headed out with the houseboat about 3pm in the afternoon. That is against David's better judgement. We usually don't take it out that late in the afternoon. But we did it! What our plan was is that we got the houseboat out and tied down then we had to take David back to Wahweap and he had to head back home and work for a few days. Then he brought back Jaylyn and Jacob and Breken on Weds before the 4th of July.   

These were the sunsets heading to our camping spot. Sooo beautiful 

These sage brush in the water is not a good sign! Big storm hit and it was not pretty! 

It made a mess!! 

Cleaning up that mess was just miserable!! We vacuumed up a whole bag of sand! 

We were taking a boat ride and saw these people up on top of the rim and said what are they doing? So we stopped and this is what we saw. They were jumping int he water. It was so cool to find this. The water is way down right now so this is a fun find. When the water is up you wont see this. 

Janica was brave and jumped.

We headed up this canyon called Cathedral Canyon. Such a fun one.  

It's oreo time

Then we went up Twilight Canyon. That's where we have Dave's drive in for lunch  

Then we were at Dangling rope when they announced that a weather storm was issued and that we needed to find a beach and park and wait for the storm to pass. They estimated  winds to be 70mph. Well we did not have 70mph winds. More like 30 which was till strong. It was  a mess in the main channel for boating. The rain was hitting us so hard. We laughed a lot and I will have to admit I was a little scared. Not the first lake powell storm I have been in and certainly not the last either. 

We stopped and found a beach to wait out the storm and let it pass so the boys climbed this mountain to see where the storm was heading

Glad to know it passed and we found out house boat all ok !!

These two boys had fun FISHING!!!!

What a life for Tawni!! She is actually sleeping in Janica's arms! 

Shadows on the mountain! Breken had fun seeing his shadow on the mountain while playing in the dark

And yes he liked playing in the sand naked!! Only 3 yr olds gets to do this kind of fun......

Jaylyn, mine and Janica's legs. Checking out who has the best tan going on. Jaylyn is a white girl...Mama has the best but Janica is second in line. The kids used to get really taned when we would be at powell for the summer. But when you have school and work you don't get to see the sun to much. 

Mr. B....

On the 4th of July we wanted to head to Antelope Point and eat and watch their fire works there. But we decided that with all the storms coming and going we decided to stay close to camp and watch the fire works from on top of the houseboat. Other houseboaters bring some pretty awesome fireworks to the lake. so we watched about 3 different boaters displaying their fireworks. 

We had a great time. Even with all the 10% rain and that 10% seemed to be around us all time. We did have some really sunny hot days. This was a much hotter trip then what we usually have. It was unseasonably warm this 4th of July. But I know that we all had fun!! Whoo hoo I love Lake Powell!!