We took our annual trip to Lake Powell this week. As usual it was amazing. The Wright's are an amazing family and we love spending the week. I am pretty sure there is nothing better Sacramento meeting on the house boat. The spirit is so strong there and it reminds me why I joined the church. All the talks always seem to be exactly what you need at that time! We got there Saturday morning loaded the house boat and headed out...with only a few glitches...(Johnny boat wouldn't start on the launch wrap and then we got a ticket hauling stuff to the house boat). It took almost an entire day to find a spot but we finally found one and set up camp...12 adults inside and all the kids up top it was craziness but so fun. Sunday we had Sacrament meeting and then took our annual trip to Rainbow Bridge and Dangling Rope for ice cream...we hiked up to the bridge (actually Hayley quit about half way so I went back with her) and Ryan took the rest of the kids up. It was so stinking hot...we all pulled out on the boats and swam to get cooled off for a while. We then hit dangling rope for ice, gas and a yummy root beer float (I got a Pepsi from the fountain with ice...it was so good). We wakeboarded, tubed and swam the rest of the day. On Monday we went to Sand Hill where Paige lost 1 flip flop on the way up....how exactly does that happen...just one flip flop? Anyway they all had a great time and did a little jumping off the rocks too. Johnny took a bunch of kids on a long boat ride to the Marine on Tuesday but other than that we just chilled, ate delious food and treats all week long. I think I gained 10 pounds but it was worth it! One of the funniest moments this week was from Paige...as adults it is customary that when every we pull in somewhere on boats we turn up the music super loud and everybody gets up on the sides of the boat and dances....it is hysterical. So as we pulled into Dangling Rope we tried to get our kids to do the same and Paige freaked out...she was so embarrassed of all of us we were dying laughing. Why knew at 9 years old we would already be embarrassing our kids :-) We had a couple good storms that brought the kids down from sleeping on top for a few hours but its to be expected at Lake Powell, all part of the adventure right? We took all of our kids except baby Sadie, sorry Sadie a few more years!
