Tuesday, June 28, 2011

{June 20-26}


Chapter: 
Lake Powell Trip with the Samuelsons
We ended up leaving a day earlier than expected, because all of us were SO excited to get to Powell. After the kids swim lessons on Tuesday we packed up and left at about 4:45 PM. All 3 kids did awesome!
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We made it to here and then decided to stay the night at this place.
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 Can you see why they call it MEXICAN HAT?
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 We got to Lake Powell about lunch time.  All the family was there. It was a beautiful day! Kaiden and Maggie jumped right in. (The water looks yucky because the water is rising over 12 inches a day and pulls the debris into the water where we had the houseboat parked, we also were right off the main channel. The water in the main channel was really muddy looking, but that was due to all the water coming in so rapidly. In the canyons the water was a perfect blue green. It was beautiful.)
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 Macy loved every minute of it and did very well the whole trip.
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Granny and Papa getting to know Macy.
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Daddy and Kaiden

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Uncle Sam and cousin Piper

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Maggie

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Kaiden

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Granny, Daddy and Maggie on Granny and Papa's boat. Granny and Papa also brought their two jet skis. Jake and I took Maggie and Kaiden out and taught them how to drive by themselves. They even raced each other. They had such a great time! 
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Uncle Sam cliff jumping.

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Jake cliff jumping.

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Macy hanging out while we cliff jumped.

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Tubing ! Anna (piper's friend), Kaiden, Maggie, Aunt Ronda and couisn Kayson.

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Mom, Maggie, Kaiden and cousin Kayson. Kaiden loved tubing, he tubed and tubed and tubed. He is one wild child. He told me he didn't want to go with me because I went too slow....!
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Anna, Kaiden and Kayson.

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Jake and sleeping Maggie.

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Granny, Uncle Sam, cousin Chandler and Braden.

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Maggie slept every time we went on the boat. It was wonderful!

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Granny, Kaid and Papa on a hike.

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Mommy and Maggie.

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We went on an all day adventure seeing all sorts of neat canyons in Lake Powell. We went to Hole in the Rock, Davis Gulch, Annies Canyon. It was awesome. We stopped at this beautiful spot for lunch and to jump off some rocks. It was a great day. It was really windy the rest of the time we were there, so we weren't able to wakeboard, or jet ski the rest of the trip which was kinda a bummer, but we still had a great time!

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Kaid even took a snooze!

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LUNCH TIME!

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Maggie, Mommy, Piper and people we don't know, jumping off the rock.

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We finally made it to Rainbow Bridge. Which was AMAZING. I am so happy we went to see it. It was truly amazing.

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Anna, Kaiden, Maggie, Piper, Jake and Macy.

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Macy was such a good sport, even in the heat and windy conditions! (106 degrees!)

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kaid and uncle Sam

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Daddy, Macy and Maggie.

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We all slept on the top of the houseboat. It was awesome. The first night was great. The second night was extremely windy, and the third night I was so tired from not sleeping the first 3 nights I dont' know what happened, but I slept. It was awesome. The kids slept in a tent on top of the houseboat next to me, Jake and Macy. It worked out perfectly. 
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maggie and kaid in the tent.

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Macy slept like a rock each night! 

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Mommy and Macy

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Driving the houseboat to the dock. What a fun trip! So sad to go....next time we will go the whole week. It was such a great time!

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Granny and Papas house boat is in Halls Crossing. So it was about an 8 hour drive for us and part of it was on theses switch backs.  There was a motor home pulling a boat that made it through, it is really tight through some of those switch backs, we thought it was amazing so we captured it! 
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We made it home safe and sound with such wonderful memories. Can't wait to go again! 




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