Lake Powell and all it's awesome-ness!!!

I love Lake POWELL!!!

I had quite the eventful week!! Monday and Tuesday was SWAT Team Practice and then Me, Britley, and Shelby went to Lake Powell from Wednesday-Saturday with Shelby's family.

We had a BLAST!! After we made it there safely of course.

You see we had to drive by ourselves since we have work schedules to get around so while the rest of her family left Sunday afternoon, we arranged to meet them there on Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday we left at around 6:00 p.m. and drove to Spanish Fork to stay with some of Shelby's relatives. On Wednesday morning we woke up at 6:30 a.m. to head on our way to Lake Powell. We had a GPS system and figured we would be fine.

Well we typed in Bullfrog Marina into the GPS and it came up as Bullfrog Road in Hanksville. The map showed it right next to Lake Powell so we figured that must be it. We drove for about 3 hours and finally got to this so called 'Bullfrog Road' and realized we were 50 miles off from our destination with no cell phone service. The GPS had lied to us. So we typed in all the landmarks/restaurants we could think of that were near Lake Powell since the GPS lacked the technology to guide us to just Lake Powell.

Finally it showed The Hollow Mountain/Phillips 66 on the map and we made our way there thinking we had finally found our way. When we got to the Hole in the Rock (Hollow Mountain) we had cell phone service and called for directions from one of Shelby's Uncle. Too bad they were the wrong directions. We drove 70 miles on Highway 95 looking for a medical center to turn after. He had failed to mention that you take the first right on Highway 95 and THEN look for a medical center. But we were yet again without cell phone service and had to figure this out by ourselves. The Signs continued to say 'Bullfrog 66' so we figured if we kept driving until mile 66 we would see a building. After we crossed the Colorado River we figured something was wrong. It was actually a relief to find out that we had been given wrong directions and not just that we were too dumb to follow them correctly. So after driving for an hour down the Highway, we turned around to drive another hour back to The Hollow Mountain where finally Shelby's Sister and Brother-in-law decided to come save us by picking us up.

When they got there they took over and were going to drop us off where we needed to go. We drove for about 40 miles in a 65 speed limit zone and the speed limit suddenly changed to 35 going downhill. Well Ben (Shelby's brother-in-law) failed to slow down and we were pulled over by a park ranger. Nikki (Shelby's sister) had to pee really bad so we pulled into a gas station and Nikki got out of the car and ran (she has a really bad bladder) to the bathroom. The cops pulled in really fast and so they thought she was running from them and began to chase her down. Her husband Ben got out of the car and started to say "No! Wait! She's just going to the bathroom!" but the cop turned around and screamed "GET BACK IN THE CAR!"

Since it was Shelby's Dad's car and he failed to put the new registration in his van (he thinks he accidentally threw it away) and Nikki ran from the cops, and Ben was speeding, and Shelby wasn't wearing a seatbelt....

... we got off with a warning. Surprisingly!! It made for a great story though! The cops were really nice and were basically just bored. They gave us a warning about the speeding and couldn't stop laughing at the incident that had just happened. It was a terribly long day and the three of us girls (Shelby, Britley, and I) had just about had it. We arrived safely on the houseboat and entertained everyone all night telling of our days activities.

The rest of the week went smoothly and we had so much fun tubing and swimming in 111 degree weather!!! Lake Powell is so beautiful and pictures do not do it justice but it was so fun! I hope I get to do it again soon!! :)