Powell

Well, I'm back from Lake Powell. I've actually been back for a week now, but I've been slow on the blog front! Every year, my extended family camps out at Lone Rock, Lake Powell for a week. We all come from Texas, California, Utah, and Arizona. Its a huge trip with tons of people, and tons of fun. This year we had a grand total of 3 boats, 4 waverunners, two dirtbikes, two "floating trampolines", 3 tubes,1 wakeboard, 1 kneeboard, 5 pair of skis, countless amounts of "floaties", 10 tents, three trailers, 5 gazebos, 12 cars/trucks, and about 50 European neighbors. (I had to throw in the europeans just for fun. There were tons of them, and they all got stuck in the sand. My dad was the lucky guy who got to pull them all out of the sand. He got offered many beers, but turned them all down. Some of them even gave him cash lol. Watching people get stuck was our entertainment during meals haha.) This year, Powell was a blast, as usual! I actually didn't get sunburned! Of course, we had our usual "tube wars" for hours everyday. For those of you who don't know what that is, we pull two tubes behind the boat instead of just one, and you try to jump onto the other person's tube and knock them off, into the water before they do the same to you. It is super fun...it sounds really dangerous, but we've been doing it for years now, and nobody has ever gotten more than a simple tube rash! I beat my cousin Tim 3-1! He's usually the best at stuff like that. I'm sure it was hilarious for the little kids in the boat watching two adults wrestle on the tubes! We went cliff-diving, as usual, but it wasn't as great this year. The water raised so much that the cliffs we usually go to were completely submerged. As a result, we were forced to find new ones, and they just weren't as perfect as the others. I thought I broke my leg one day, when my brother did a donut on the waverunner, and threw me off the back (we were both on the waverunner, he was driving). As I fell, I slammed my leg on the footrest, which was quite painful, but I recovered by the next morning with nothing but a few bruises! We went on a tour of the damn this year. We've been going to Lake Powell every summer since I was a little kid, and we've never taken the time to actually go inside the damn, so it was pretty interesting. The weather could not have been better. Every year, we encounter one big storm while camping at the Lake. This year, the storm came our first day, which made setting up a little difficult, but it was over quick and never came back! The rest of the week was beautiful! Every year, my favorite part of the trip is campfire. Every night we build a fire and hang out around it for hours. Its fun to see cousins from other states that I don't see very often! My family is amazing! This year, everybody remembered there guitars and fiddles, which made campfire extra fun (my family is a little obsessed with music,especially my Grandpa). The trip was a success, and I can't wait for next year!