Lake Powell/Knab Trip Part I

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We left the house around noon. It was a 4-hour drive to our vacation rental house. The kids stayed pretty quiet since they all were preoccupied with their tablets. We got to the house, but no one was there yet. Erik left to get dinner at Big John’s Texas BBQ. While Erik was gone, grandma and grandpa arrived. The kids were excited! Erik came back with the delicious bbq. After stuffing our faces, we all just hung out for a while. The kids watched spongebob, and I read a book. Then Makayla and Bryce showed up, and we played a game of 6 Crowns and chatted and told silly jokes. There were also donuts that we enjoyed. It was late when we put the kids to bed in the bunkbeds, after 10:00.

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After a rough nights sleep (for me anyway), we got up, got ready for the day and ate breakfast (leftover Lamars donuts for me). Our first stop of the day was Horseshoe Bend. It was a quick drive, and a .6 mile hike to the bend. The view of the river and canyon was beautiful and surreal—almost like looking at a 3D painting but even better since it’s real life! It was really cool to see and the water was so clear that we could see the bottom of the canyon wall that extended into the water. There were some girls taking pictures of themselves on the very edge and making me nervous but other than that I think we quite enjoyed seeing Horseshoe Bend.

Ian took this video of us driving around in Page AZ

Horseshoe Bend. There was a picture of it on the wall of the rental home we stayed in. It is of course, much more impressive in person

On the hike back to the car, Ian stopped to take off his shoes at a covered bench. Some of us sat down, while Gabe chased a little lizard. He was too timid to actually catch it, but Bryce caught it! Elisa was even given the chance to “hold” the lizard—i.e. let the lizard hang out on her arm.

Bryce getting that lizard

A very cute little boy

He caught that lizard!

Having fun with that silly lizard

Our next stop was the bridge over the Glen Canyon dam. We just parked the car and walked along the bridge to look at the dam. It was a lot deeper than I thought it would be. We also crossed the street to see the other side of the dam. Then we went back to the house and ate leftovers for lunch.

Its scarier in person. Very deep and disorienting, but still very neat.

Gabe on one side of the dam

Elisa and the other side of the dam

After lunch most of us got our swimsuits on and we drove to Lake Powell, the Wahweep Bay part. I didn’t care to swim much, so I sat in the sand and chatted and watched the kids have the time of their lives. They liked swimming (too cold for me), finding little shells, and playing in the sand. Elisa even got buried by grandpa in the sand! It was kind of a hike back to the car, we almost lost grandma there!

                        It was a long hike down, and an even longer hike up. Grandma barely made it!

Some of us were brave enough to get in the chilly water

The kids loved playing in the sand

Elisa got buried!

Elisa and Grandpa made a fort. All the commotion of it made Erik really mad so he took it down.

After the lake, we went back to the house. I saw a bead store on the way back to the house that I was excited about, but unfortunately they were closed as I found out when I tried to go in. Bummer. After going back to the house again, I read a book and fell asleep until the kids screamed me awake. Everyone else just hung out or napped. For dinner, we picked up fish n chips from Nemo’s Fish n Chips and a couple of hamburgers from RD’s. Both meals were just okay. Not horrible, but nothing that great. I was unimpressed with the battered fish and the hamburger was very average. I did like the calamari though. To finish out the day, we played some games. The first game we played was a very silly Scattegories Jr game with Gabe, after we sent Ian and Elisa to bed. After several giggle-inducing rounds, we sent Gabe to bed. Makayla and Bryce emerged from their room and taught us how to play a new game called chameleon. It was fun! I liked being the chameleon.

Fish dinner