Lake Powell July 17-24th

I took my 2nd trip to Lake Powell this year, without my husband because he was on a business trip. Me and Michael had a great time. We had a perfect spot which was very secluded and quiet. It was really nice not having a lot of boats come and go and always feeling their wake. It did rain on us a few nights, two of which stopped after a little bit, but one night it kept up and we ended up sleeping inside the houseboat. Unfortunately there were no tsunami's this time, but our wave runner did decide to start up by itself and try to get away. Luckily it was tied up, so it didn't go any where. Crazy. I had to jump in the water and shut it off. Michael had a great time feeding the fish and the Chiki's (chipmunks, squirels). He just loved being in the water and playing with the orange floater, which he loved blowing water out of the end. He also loved to throw water balls and swim to get it. At night we would all get in the water, Michael included, and throw glow sticks at each other in total darkness. It was fun! We also went back to the Indian Ruins. We all had fun tubing, skiing, and wake boarding. We jumped off cliffs and actually met up with old friends that we met last year on our trip. We had gone to check out our old spot and found the same houseboat (Dad's Legacy) in their same spot. They remembered us (mostly because of the fireworks, and the redneck boat ride (pulling the birthday girl on a tube behind a canoe...) Every year, our family friends, Jeff & Wendy Martin come- they are family to us!! Jeff always does this thing called 'Boomer' He stuffs a pipe with newspaper, gun powder and light sticks (he puts those in because sometimes they blow up and little specks of the stuff inside fall down and float on the water) Well, he did 'Boomer' every night. He waits until we are ready, says "fire in the hole!" lights it, runs away and hope that everyone plugs their ears because it's extremely loud. Well, something went terribly wrong the last night. Jeff didn't get a chance to say fire in the hole. He lit the fuse, and it suddenly went off. Jeff was right there. Wendy yelled to him asking if he was ok, but there was no response. We all started getting really worried. Finally once the smoke died down and we got a light on Jeff, we found him in one piece. He was deaf from the boom, but otherwise ok. Luckily he hadn't been leaning over to light boomer or else he would have been seriously hurt. After an hour, Jeff was back to himself and was ok. It was really scary though. I think he may decide to retire boomer. We will see next year. I did get a cold, which included a sore throat and coughing, but thank heavens, I got to keep my voice. My mom was not so lucky. She lost her voice for half the week! I read two books while at the Lake, played a lot of 'Skip Bo' & 'Five Crowns' as well as other games. All in all, we had a great time, though I did miss my hubby! It's nice to be home!