Had ourselves a little family vacation...

So last Wednesday at 2:00 p.m., Merril called and said, "Want to go to Lake Powell for the weekend?" My response, "Uhhhh, sure!" It didn't end up working out so we went this weekend.

By Lake Powell, there's a magnificent slot canyon called Antelope Canyon. Merril's been there a bazillion times with Japanese tourists and arranged for Maxine and I to go for free! It was really a sight and not somewhere I'd want to be during a flash flood. It was crowded but we scored some super awesome amazing pictures. It was really neat!

Our little family decided to camp on a secluded beach. We loaded everything into the boat and took off. We drove around for a while and had a hard time finding a beach because the lake was so high. But we ended up finding a nice place to camp.

The next day we loaded in the boat to head up to Rainbow Bridge. It's took us a while to get there, maybe 2 hours. On the way, we took the boat up Cathedral Canyon. It was a deep canyon, but skinny. Merril was able to reach out and touch the sides as we floated along.

Cathedral Canyon is fairly close to Rainbow Bridge, which is the largest known natural bridge.

We stopped at a marina near Rainbow Bridge for some ice and paid $5.25 a bag. Incidentally, they were selling like hot cakes.

We drove back and fished. Which ended in Maxine catching 2 catfish and general frustration among the crowds. So we had tacos for dinner instead of bass or trout.

We even did the early morning skiing on the way to the floating toilet. (Merril wanted me to point out that only he did the skiing. I drove the boat.)

We lazed around camp.

We played in the water.

We took in too much sun and were ready to come home.