Where do I begin! This was one of the funnest most adventurous trips I have been on in a long time. My Dad rented a house boat at lake Powell for a week. It was so fun. The weather was wonderful. The water was cool but not cold. We had lots of yummy food and many friends were there. Aron and Wendy came with thier kids. Summer and Cade were there. Christie and paul Broderick came and of course Mom and dad with the kids. The first night we slept on the top of the boat. Little did I know what was going on around me as I slept. At one point during the night I felt something big crawl across my face so I swapped it and it landed on Joe. He immediately woke from it and batted it off to the side of our bed. I had a hard time sleeping after that thinking of bugs crawling on my babies. Shyloh was in her pack and play covered with a blanket so I wasn't as worried about her but Nolan was totally exposed sleeping near the side of the boat. Finally I slept and woke to a horror i never could have imagined.... There were spiders EVERYWHERE. And not the normal little spiders you find in your house, these spiders were HUGE and scary looking. I stood up from my camp bed and my head went right into a spider web! I am almost certain that the thing crawling on my face was a giant spider. We immediately left that spider infested beach in search for a less buggy campsite. The remainder of the day was spent ridding the boat of our new passengers. Everywhere we turned there was a spider but with the use of an old fly swatter and a broom we finally swapped the last one into the water. There are now about 100 more spiders at the bottom of the lake. I guess during the night the spiders had crawled along the ropes we had used to anchor the boat. They thought they could catch better insects on the boat. We slept inside the next night though we never had another spider problem that bad again.
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| This was one of the smaller ones! I didn't think to take a picture until all the huge ones were gone |
The landscape was so magnificent! I was just in awe! I took a million pictures but here are my favorites
We had so much fun on the ski boat! We went to the dock and got ice cream and matching lake Powell shirts for the girls! We explored a few alleys of rock. We skied and tubed to our hearts content.
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| Shyloh was so stinkin cute in her life vest! She didn't like it at all but got used to it by the end of the trip. |
The house boat was fun too! We fished off the top and jumped off into the water. We layed up there tanning, it was wonderfully warm! We ate lots of super good food and had lots of laughs.
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| Summer, Kayala and Sorin |
My camera died half way through the trip so I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted. I will never forget this trip and how much fun I had with people I love.
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