Lake Powell

Well Ben has been in New Mexico working for the last 3 weeks. He gets to come home on the weekends but still, it sucks! Anyways he planned this little getaway awhile ago. He planned with the two guys that he is working with there in New Mexico to go to Lake Powell. They all are on what's called DOE which is a goverment job that has them working four 10 hour days which means they get three day weekends. I am not going to lie, I was really hesistant on going seeing I am due in 4 weeks. I will say this, it really was fun, short, and lots of fun! Thursday afternoon after Aidan got out of preschool I drove down to Cedar City and picked up Ben from the airport there. Then we had dinner and headed down to Lake Powell with his friend Tony Wilson. We got there and on the house boat about 11pm. Friday was a great day. We all went out on the boat and Ben was able to go wakeboarding which is not often enough for him! He also got to learn how to surf behind the boat which he was pretty good at. The wind started to pick up so he didn't get to go wakeboarding again. Tony then took us to this awesome beach. The sand was so white and clean, the kids loved it! Saturday wasn't as good as Friday. However Ben and his friend Jared took the kids out on the jet skis and went cliff jumping while Kim, Jared's wife, and I stayed on the house boat and relaxed. It was really nice. Later that afternoon we took the boat out and went sight seeing. We went through these amazing canyons. It was so pretty. We went to this other beach with red sand and the kids road down the hills with the knee board. That night we all played Mexican Train and then the boys stayed up to play cribbage which is Ben's new favorite game. Sidenote: Ben is in New Mexico this week and has informed me the first night there they had to go to Wal-Mart to buy it and has played it every night! Sunday the boys took the kids out tubing on the boat while Kim and I stayed and cleaned up the house boat. I was totally okay with this because the boys totally took care of every meal and cleanup while we were there! We left by noon and got home just before 7pm. Our road trips now take at least an hour longer because Ethan has a bladder the size of a pea. He has to stop all the time to go potty. I wish I had Ben's patience because he just says at least he is telling us and I have the attitude of "put a diaper on him!" Ben is such a great father and we were so grateful to spend that time with him before he left again this week. Thanks Tony for inviting us to come with you and enjoy your house boat! We had a blast!