Second Lake Powell Trip of the Year

Jon and Steph told us they were planning a last boat hurrah for the year at Lake Powell over Labor Day weekend and invited us to join in.  We will never say no to a Lake Powell boat trip.  We drove down Friday afternoon after school.  I actually picked the kids up 30 minutes early from school because the school called saying Carter was sick.  Got him home and found him to have a fever of 101.5.  We decided to go anyways, by the next morning it was clear he had strep throat.  Luckily, I had a few left over Amoxicillin pills that I had packed along.   He learned how to swallow horse pills and honestly did great the whole trip.  Hopefully no one else gets sick.

We spent all day Saturday on the Lake.  


We swam, jumped off rocks, all the kids knee boarded, Olivia skied, and the kids got to tube. 


We explored Labyrinth Canyon which is entirely wakeless and pretty.  



After the long day on the Lake, we went back to Page and had dinner at a Mexican food joint.  The kids were the best they had ever been at a sit down restaurant probably because they were so exhausted from the full day on the Lake.

Sunday, we all went to church.  Then, we took the dam tour which was pretty cool.  

It was hot though.  We were actually one of the last tours to go before they shut down the tours for the day due to extreme temperatures.  The group stayed to watch some Lake Powell videos.  Camden decided that was boring, so he and I explored the museum and he got two different Jr. Ranger badges.    


The kids absolutely adore Chase.  

Especially Carter.  He wanted to put Sunin in his hair just like Chase.  

A
t breakfast, he would follow Chase around and put on his plate whatever Chase did.  We were originally planning to go home on Sunday, but all the kids and Chase and Jon and Steph’s family begged us to stay, and I am a sucker for making all my kids dreams come true, so we booked another night at the hotel and stayed for Monday too.  Sunday, I played games with the adults down in the lobby of the hotel and Derek put our tired kids to bed.

Monday morning, we got up, packed up, had breakfast, and hit the lake.  We stayed sort of close to the marina.  Both boys knee boarded, Liv did a great job skiing—she got outside the wake and back in.  We found the greatest little non wavy place to swim and jump off rocks.  

We had lunch at a nice little beach and Liv made Camden into a Mermaid.  

Then, the kids, Derek, Chase and I all swam out to a little island off the shore.  It had sand and lizards and a great place to jump off the rocks back into the water.  Then, we pulled the boat off the lake and started back for home with Chase in our car again per kid request.  Now, back to school and life again tomorrow.  But not without of course making the always necessary bathroom break on the side of the rode for both twins.