Creative Intermediacy: Lake Powell

I am a bit late on a bunch of posts mainly because for some of them (like Lake Powell) I had to collect the pictures from different people's cameras. Now I get to blog about my most favorite place in the whole world!

Once a year my family takes a trip to Lake Powell. As much as I wish it was more than once a summer, it is the most looked forward trip of the year for me. This year we decided to rent a houseboat instead of staying in a hotel in Page like we usually do. We had a large group of 40 people on one houseboat! It was a boat load of poeple but it wouldn't have been the same without every single one of my aunts, uncles, and cousins.

We parked our houseboat at warm creek on a great beach that had cliffs to jump from nearby, and a housboat full of teenagers for neighbors. Luckily they were very nice and never kept us up. It was of course the first stormy week of the summer that we decided to go and we ran into a bit of rain throughout each day. It was still hot at other times and we got plenty of sun. The only bad thing about the rain was trying to find somewhere to sleep where you were covered. With 40 people it was a little hard to do but we managed. One night we were all crammed inside the boat playing games and watching movies to wait for the rain to stop so we could set up our beds. Luckily it did around 11:00.

Another adventure we had was after a group of six of us went for a drive to the floating potty in the middle of the lake, we pushed off and soon realized our boat wasn't starting. The battery was dead. We were pushed by the waves quite a ways all the way into a beach. (Weird thing was the waves were pretty big when they were pushing us and as soon as we got to the beach they died down and the lake was pretty glassy.) Luckily a boat was docked a ways down the beach so in the dark my dad headed to the boat and asked them to come and give us a jump. They were a big boat that couldn't come all the way into the beach or else they would have gotten stuck, so we had to push our boat a ways out and Casey, Jordan, Megan and Chels stood in the water to keep our boat from floating back in. We were jumped and after being in the dark for over an hour surrounded by lightening in the sky we made it back to the houseboat. We had two other boats within our family and we wondered why in the world they never came looking for us but it turned out they had tried to come out but neither of the spotlights on the other boats were working so they wouldn't have been able to see.

The day after we had problems with our boat my grandpas boat started to have problems also. My grandpa took me out to slalom ski and once we got a ways out from the houseboat he turned off the boat, I got my ski, and gloves on, jumped in the water, he straightened out the rope, and the boat died. His starter went out and it had to be hand cranked the rest of the time. Ha at least I had gotten to ski another part of the trip. I usually have a hard time getting up right on skis my first time since I am more of a wakeboarder, but I actually got up my first try! Hey it's quite the accomplishment for me:).

The trip was full of tubing, wakeboarding, skiing, cliff jumping, sliding down the slide, visiting the marina, and lots of card games! I love my family and we had such a fun trip this year.