Lake Powell 2011

This is where we got to live for a whole week!! The first 4 to 5 days at Powell this year were heavenly. The weather was perfect. We found a lovely place to park the house boat. We were with a super fun group of people. Then the ear infections struck. I'm not going to say much about it because I want to focus on the positive. I'll just say that 13 or 14 of the 23 people in our group ended up with some degree of swimmers ear, ranging from pretty mild to horrible, ear swollen closed, sicker than crap. Six of those people and a total of 9 ears were from my family. Yuck!!! Now back to the beginning of the week, the super good part. We got there on Saturday, August 27th. Got the boat loaded up and headed back to the buoy for the night. Sunday morning we took off to find the perfect spot to park for the week. We stayed in Forgotten Canyon on a small beach with lots of great places for climbing and playing. Just a short swim from the back of our boat was a great big rock island for us to cliff jump off of and climb and play. The kids spent a lot of time rowing the hot dog or swimming to the island to play. We went knee boarding, and exploring Indian ruins and playing games and spent lots of time relaxing in the sun.

I put together a collage for each of the kids so get ready for picture over load.

See the rock McKay is sitting on in the bottom left picture in his collage. He came to me and said "come er mom. I'll show you where the Indian's leader is buried." He brought me to this rock. I asked him who told him that and he said Bryce did. Of course Bryce did. After this picture McKay started digging for the bones of the Indian leader.

McKay was scared to death to get in the lake when we were there in July, but this time he was so brave and swam around like a little fish the whole time. He even did tricks jumping off the back of the house boat. I finally got to see Abby on the knee board and she was awesome! Nate jumped off the cliff into the lake. His advice to Bryce was, "You just have to go for it before the common sense part of your brain kicks in." Great advice. Gracie's favorite part was going to the Indian Ruins and playing with friends. Bryce never did jump off of the cliff but jumped off of the top of the house boat a lot. This year we had a mini field day for the kids because their school field day was while we were gone. We also did wish lantern's which was really cool.

I think the kids are all caught up with the school work they missed and most of us are felling mostly better, so we are settling back into the regular schedule. Our big family night was supposed to be tonight but I couldn't quit get it together so it will be tomorrow night, I hope.