Friday, July 9, 2010

Lake Powell Trip - Day 2 - Rainbow Bridge


With the amount of people that we had come, 20, we needed three boats. Steve and Belinda brought their boat, my parents rented a catamaran, and my in-laws were so gracious in letting us borrow their boat. So we had three boats to cater to all the people and it made it such a fun trip!
Happy Hannah! She did so great in her life jacket- just sucked on it and enjoyed standing and seeing the water and scenery around her...and watching all her cousins!
Alissa helping Grandpa drive the Catamaran!
Swimming with Aunt Mary and Lucy!
Hannah napping with Nana...the shaded catamaran was SO SO SO nice to have for the babies to nap and to escape the sun!
Enjoying a few moments out of her life jacket while Mommy changed her diaper!
Swimming to cool off...favorite activity!
Napping on the Boat!

Enjoying the scenery on the boat drive up to Rainbow Bridge...Alissa and Lucy are closest in age and had such a fun time together!
Hiking to Rainbow Bridge!
Alissa refusing to hold my hand...she would only hold Grandpa's!
Me and my girls in front of Rainbow Bridge! I love this place...so many memories!
Cheesin it up with Nana!
This picture has a story behind it....isn't this incredible!
I took it myself! I love Powell storms...when we are safe!!!

On the way back from Rainbow Bridge, we stopped at Dangling Rope Marina to gas all three boats. We saw a storm cloud looming and it came up fast. Luckily we were docked at the marina when the storm hit. This was the worst/ craziest storm of the season, from what the marina said afterwards. We tried to wait it out in the boats but were just getting soaked to the bone...then the lightning and thunder started. The marina attendants had us evacuate our boats and wait out the storm in the marina. Thankfully, no harm was done, but it was quite a storm and quite a memory keeping all the grandkids happy during such a big storm!!


This was the Rainbow that we saw after the storm! That was fun and so gorgeous against the red rock!
Alissa telling Daddy all about the big storm!
Feeding the ducks while waiting to pull the boats out at night! What a fun day on the lake!

2 comments:

Jen said...

Ah, y'all are going to be so tan! It looks like SOOO much fun!

The Childs Family said...

Looks like y'all had an absolute BLAST! When you and Tyson have a boat someday than you can take the Childs fam along for fun! :) And I am just sad though because Hannah is changing SO much and I am missing it! LOVE y'all! Glad y'all are having such a great time!