Lake Powell

This week end we went to lake Powell and like always it was a blast! We go every year with Marks family. This year was extra fun. We didn't get to go up for the hole week so we missed out on a lot of things. We arrived early Thursday morning. Mark is always so much fun with the kids, he took everyone on a hike. He had scoped it out earlier and found a big hole in the mountain that looked like a crater and found a small cliff for everyone to jump off of. Then we had to swim to what he called Cragun's Island. Everyone loved it. He is a lot like his dad when it comes to things like that. His dad set up an obstacle coarse in the water, that was a lot of fun. They all canued around the coarse to see who was the fastest. I believe Ryan won with Kristen in second and Mark in third.

Mark and I decided to stay an extra night just the two of us. Ryan had told us that we should go see Goblin Valley. So on Saterday everyone went home and we had the afternoon to pass. So we decided to drive up around lake powell to the natural bridges state monument. This was about an 1 1/2 hours. So when we were done we decided to go to the other side of lake power to halls crossing and ride the fairy across with the car. This would be a lot faster. So we got to the turn off the Halls Crossing at about 6:15 and the sign said that the fairy went during day light every even hour. We still had plenty of time right? Well we arrived at Halls Crossing at 7:00, the last fairy was 6:00. So here we were just right across the lake from Bull Frog were we were going to eat and sleep, with no way to get there. So we knew that we would not make it back to bull frog in time to get anything to eat and there was nothing on the way there or even close. So we had to drive 80 miles to Blanding just to eat, and the only thing open was Subway, but hey that was good enough to us. So we started driving back at around 10:00pm. Keep in mind we thought we were staying in the house boat so all we had with us was 2 blankets and 2 pillows. Well we arrived to the natural bridge monument and saw that there were camping spots so we pulled into one and spent the night with Mark curled up in the back seat of our Jetta and I was in the front, not able to put the seat back. Well we woke up at 5:30am and drove to Goblin Valley. This ended up being quite the adventure, but it was fun and Goblin valley was pretty cool.