Lake Powell 2022

We had so much fun in Lake Powell. 

We stayed in Lake Powell with our friend group and their families. It was SO much fun and so beautiful. We launched from Page AZ marina and parked our houseboat in Padre Bay.

Here are our Top Ten Memories:

1. Reece's Bed Manner

Houseboats are tight and our room was super small. Megan and I crammed into it as best we could while the kids all slept on the top deck. But during the day the kids would come into the room sometimes. Reece kept coming in and leaving either sand or wet towels on our bed.

2. Grandpa Mike

The Dad of one of families is Mike. He's a teacher at the local school and pretty well liked by all the kids. He was such a fun character that the kids all started calling him 'Grandpa Mike'.

3. Tubing extravaganza

Lots of tubing happened. Harper is the undisputed Queen of tubing. She resorted to doing tricks and stunts.

4. Diving/Slide Party

5. Fascism. Among the many board games that were played, we played a lot of 'Secret Hitler'. A mafia-like board game where everyone tries to reveal the fascists. It got pretty noisy with lots of shouting of accusations about why so and so is a fascist.

6. Gideon caught a fish.

Gideon borrowed a fishing pole from Grandpa Mike and caught a decent sized fish. He was elated. He released it so there wasn't any fish-eating drama.

7. Gideon and Dallin: Gideon making a Sauna.

Gideon quickly gravitated to Dallin, one of the older, married men who is super fun. Wherever Dallin was, Gideon was not far away. Dallin started building a sauna by digging a pit in the sand and covering it with a tarp. Gideon was all in and was his right hand man.

8. Labrynth Canyon

I had been to this canyon once before on a kayaking trip (during the winter) so I knew how beautiful this canyon was. It's amazing and it was really fun to watch the kids walk through it.

9. Bandaid on my head: 

I had a bandaid covering a cut on my forehead the entire trip. So, every cool picture we took down there, I have a stupid bandaid on my forehead.

10. Kurt and I twinning: 

We have such great fashion sense.

11. Gideon Hitting 50 mph on the jetskis

At first, Gideon was hesitant to go fast on the jet ski but he quickly got over it and kept going faster and faster; from 40 mph to 45 mph, then 50 mph. He was pretty proud of himself.