labor day 2010

to celebrate the day of no work or school, my mom, step dad, sister and i decided to be a little spontaneous and drive down the lake powell for the weekend. (it took a lot of convincing on my part to my step dad) we had not been for 5 years as a family and i was thinking it was about that time we needed to make a trip down there. so we did :) and once we got down there my step dad was just soo mad we hadn't been down more. lake powell is amazing. we started off by getting on the tube and tubing around the lake. we found a couple cliffs to jump off of and then we found a little island to make our home for the weekend. as soon as we set up camp, we see a man kayaking over to our island and he had been there for like 3 weeks by himself on his houseboat. kayla and i thought it was a little creepy but he seemed like a nice guy. we went to sleep that night just in awe at how beautiful the night sky is. no where else in the world have i seen the stars as gorgeous as they are in lake powell. we woke up early to go wake board and ski while the water was still very calm. after that we went and rented a new tube, for our 16 year old round one died the night before (very happy about it) and we spent a few hours getting whipped around on that. we boated around and found more cliffs to jump off of and went to the marina to get some ice cream. then it started to get very very windy and we headed back to camp only to find all of our stuff wrapped tightly in a rope! tom saw our stuff blowing around so he came and tied it all up for us so it wouldn't blow away. he ended up letting kayla and i use his kayaks to row around because we didn't really have much more to do with the wind being as horrible as it was. he then invited us over for dinner. that night when we were going to sleep, the wind would not let us. i couldn't do anything to escape the windy night so i pretty much stayed up the whole night star gazing. we left early the next morning because it was still windy and we wanted to miss the rush of getting off the lake. it was a fabulous trip and i am so very excited to go back in a couple of weeks with rachel and her friends!