Tuesday, August 26, 2008

THE BEST VACATION EVER!!!!

Just to warn everyone.. there are a ton of pictures! :) Thursday, 21st- Monday, 25th 2008



























Rachel sleeping on the way up, in the background you can see jared and jason driving up in the silver truck.... and there is danno driving and his cool shades....



pretty sunset....





the kayaks... and the speedboat












that little green speck is lynnette floatin out on the lake... fun!









yummy brownies and ice cream after an amazing dinner!!!















ice cream in the making....













jason.. so cool.
we went to these slot canyon type things... very narrow. and then lynnette showed us this really cool cave...
becky was freaking out the whole time! :)

pushing off the sides of the canyon so we didn't scratch the boat up...























the sweet cave....


















CLIFF JUMPING! SO FUN!
jared and jason are contemplating their jump.... jared i think was the first one to go... and then we all went after him.





























bridget and rachel jumping....
















jared about to land in the water...







Time for FISHING!!!... we started fishing pretty late, so there wasn't a whole lot of fish out....














































but lynnette ended up catching one! it was so cool! but then dad helped to release the fishy back into the water.... on sunday morning however, dad went out fishing early in the morning and caught a big fish, gut it and cooked it.. and we ate it! ....











wave runners!! dad is telling bridget all the specifics....












jason relaxing in his chair in the water..... ingenious idea.





















playing in the water and kayaking.... the weather was perfect the whole time we were there...




















rachel knee boarding
























jason wakeboarding, steele got up on water ski's..












bridget and rachel tubing....




lynnette getting ready to water ski!















phyllis and becky attempting to tube... yes they actually did tube... it was a once in a life time experience! and we got it all on video! :)



danno skiing like a pro.... and nicole getting ready to ski





bridget getting up on her ski's



becky and her cute swim suit!









steele floating on his raft...













nicole and steele getting ready to tube..













enduring the ferocious waves!!

















nicole relaxing....
















phyllis and becky waving good bye...



















jared and jason are somewhere inside that tube....














jared wakeboarding














rachel and danno about to tube....









phyllis, becky, dan, and lynnette all woke up early and went on a hike.... phyllis and lynnette did some yoga.....




















here is the walk to the olympics!



oh and here begins the LAKE POWELL OLYMPICS 2008... we were inspired by "the office" and also by the Beijing olympics 2008












our first event was rock skipping.
GOLD medal: Jason
SILVER medal: Jared
BRONZE medal: Lynnette




the next event was the kayak race.


TEAM B WON THE GOLD MEDAL!
Lynnette
Jason
Jared
Becky















the third event was sand castle building.
GOLD medal: Jason
SILVER medal: Nicole
BRONZE medal: Steele














and lastly the 4th event was the water melon water polo





jason was the gold medal finalist in all 4 events... so we buried him.? :)










and here are the closing ceremonies....















we all waved goodbye to the houseboats... and goodbye to our awesome trip! :(

3 comments:

Lisa Webb said...

what an awesome trip! I'm jealous!

zachary orange said...

yah but i shoulded goned

Becky's Place said...

thanks for all those great pictures!! I just relived the whole trip. I didn't want to come back. CYA soon