Lake Powell 2009 (lots of pictures)

I'm sorry for all the pictures, but when you're on vacation for a week and also have to document for the much missed Nana and Papa this is what you get.

I should've taken pictures when we first arrived or left when the boat was clean, but I hope you can still see how beautiful the inside of this boat is.

Here is Brian with the first fish of Lake Powell and a grumpy Matthew (which we had much too much of this trip). There was a lot of fishing done. I think Brian and his brother had fish for lunch the majority of days there.

In the kayak and Matthew is happy if you look closely :)

Nate and the boys also kayaking.

Opening the care package from Nana and Papa full of Italian games.

Brian and his "little" brother with another catch.

At one point one of the kayaks went for a stroll and Brian rowed out there to get it back.

Jase with more fish.

We sadly only had one wakeboarding trip. I was going to have Brian take a picture of me the next time we went, but then the boat broke (more on that later) so that didn't happen.
But here is Nate.

And Brian with the one jump of the trip.

Matthew and his cousin enjoying some down time watching a movie.

It wouldn't be Lake Powell without some kind of adventure, right? So we took the houseboat up one of the canyons, got it all parked and happy. The next afternoon this rogue wind pulled all four anchors in a matter of minutes. So in less than 10 minutes we managed to save the houseboat from blowing into the rocks (thanks to some awesome driving by Becki); loose three of the four anchors into the lake; the engine on the Mastercraft didn't start and was floating between the houseboat and the rocks with Jason pinned between the Mastercraft and the rocks; finally got the engine to turn over and start heading out of the canyon. We decided to try and retrieve the anchors the next day as we were all worn out. Hind sigh being 20/20 we would have done it then. So the next day the three men go back with scuba gear and successfully rescue the three anchors (and $600). They are ready to head back when this time the Mastercraft's engine really does die. The radio connection was poor so we didn't know they were stranded. A good samaritan pulled them to Hall's Crossing and they called us from there. The three women and children are able to launch the houseboat to tow them to Bullfrog marina rather than paying for a $300 tow. Then the women were also able to get the houseboat back into the slip with no problems.

This picture is when we had let the boys go again to paddle themselves to the boat ramp and get it loaded on the trailer.

Here the boys are fishing for carp.

They also manage to catch a catfish.

We also did lots of swimming and went to the beach once (we wanted to go more, but obviously without a boat that hampered some of our plans), had lots of good food, Guitar Hero and Settlers of Catan. We love Lake Powell and are already looking forward to next year!