Lake Powell Oct. 2009

Allen and I just returned from almost a full week down in Lake Powell with my family. We left Saturday, October 10th and returned Thursday, October 16th. It was beautiful down there, however the weather wasn't as awesome as we were hoping. We got a TINY bit of rain for about 5 minutes our second day. But the whole time we were fighting with wind. Our second night, the only person that slept through the night was my 7 year old brother, Chris, who was all tuckered out from playing and was tucked into his sleeping bag and blankets very nicely. The rest of us were continually slapped in the face with high winds and less than pleasing cool temperatures. I woke up that morning with a wind-chapped face...what the?!
We played on the water a little bit. Ryan and I faced the bitter cold water and swam into a cave that we found while we were out exploring in the boat. It was so cool...a little unnerving(at least for me) but it was alot of fun. We hiked, we ate, we played in the sand. I colored pictures in a coloring book when I tried to keep out of the stupid wind. My grandmother(Grammy) taught me how to play Rummikub...and I ultimately decided that I hate that game. It's fun to play...and you really can't say 'no' when an invitation is extended to play...but the second you start losing...you HATE it. haha! It was a pretty good vacation. The best(warmest and least windy) day we had was the day we were packing up to go home...go figure. SHEESH! But it was fun to see the sandstone and the beauty down there one last time before all the snow-fall that is soon to come. Here are a couple pics from the vacation: enjoy!

Picture #1: Our beautiful spot that we parked the houseboat. So pretty!
Picture #2: Another angle of our spot.
Picture #3: Allen and I at the front of the speedboat while out exploring the canyons with the fam!
Picture #4: My dad apparently likes to take pictures of people while they sleep...I'll admit it...I'm an ugly sleeper. lol.
Picture #5: On the second day, while driving the boat over to our new spot, my dad allowed Allen to be captain for awhile. :)