Monday, July 13, 2009

Jackson Hole

Alright so after I uploaded all these pictures I realize they are in the wrong order I want them, its a bit backwards but oh well! Sorry!

One night Kj and me decided to go on a little nature walk, I am so glad that we did because about 5 minutes up the road we found a little valley with all this! These pics are gorgeous and as much as they are it was so much better in person!


These are the famous TETONS which I had never seen until this trip. Talk about gorgeous, I took soo many pictures! I have always wanted to get a shot of the Tetons with a reflection in the water but I wasn't able to get it this time the Lakes were too choppy!


This is me dumping the water from my boot after running the river

IT STARTS!


Hand up in the air



The End....I wish we could have kept going. I had a chance to do a bit of it all, paddle, enjoy scenery, ride the bull oh it was all wonderful

We went to the Bar J Chuckwagon for dinner and a show. It was well worth the wait. We met the nicest lady when we went to check it out and thank goodness we did. She saved our seats till 4 and then we stayed until they let us in at 5:30 and the show started at 7. It was delicious and worth every penny. The show and food was amazing. Because of the storm the power went out and we were worried that the food would not be cooked and the toilets stopped working but it all ended up working out.

Haha okay I couldn't help but put this one on here. We asked some guy to take our picture and he told us to squish in so at first Devin's hand was at my chest and I told him he'd better move it, then he moved it low and it looked like he was grabbing my lower belly so finally last chance the guy snapped the shot and this is how it turned out. We were al laughing so hard!

KJ- Me - Lyns behind some of the rapids we ran

Ahhhhhh aaahahah hahaha


I had a blast on the tire swing the first night, I couldn't stop laughing and I love how the pics turned out I made KJ take


This was the most beautiful sunset on the way to our cabin. The sky was cloudy from the storm but the sun rays were still shining through, the clouds look awesome in this pic.
What an AWESOME trip thank you everyone!
And below are more to enojy, feel free to click on any of the pics or the collage to make bigger!


Lake Powell....the greatest place on earth!

Our first day at Powell literally right after we set up our camp this HUGE rainstorm hits us! One of us was like hmm... it smells like rain and not 2 seconds later it starts pelting rain and hail and Darlene and Tanner's tent falls down so we all ran to help hold it down so that it didn't blow away in the wind. Well while holding onto their tent I realized that my tent was tipping up on its side and ready for take off right into the lake so I didn't even think I just ran and jumped onto it and grabbed what I could. They were all laughing, I didn't live that one down the rest of the trip. During this big storm I had to get inside our tent to hold up the sides against the wind and prop the heaviest things I could find in the corner. Todd stayed outside getting rained on also while holding down tents. It was a crazy crazy day and very tiring but it gave us such good memories! :) After trying to set up Tanner and Dar's tent we realized that one of the metal poles totally snapped right in half, so I had the idea to use a piece of wood and duct tape and make a splint- it worked well.
Darlene and me high five each other while riding back to shore because the boys saw some dark clouds coming and didn't want to risk another one of those storms. Can you blame them?
Because of Todd's poor back he wasn't able to tube or wakeboard, he had a good attitude about it and designated himself as the flag holder! What a good sport!

My second time wakeboarding ever---I thought I did pretty good. I love wakeboarding!

Powell is so beautiful, check out this rainbow after the storm

And the sunset on the red rocks later that night

Mr. Lawton and I

I was so excited about this, we were able to drive the boat as far as we could and then take a very small hike to Rainbow Bridge. It was gorgeous and I have always wanted to see it!

Todd had to touch the fish, what a sucker, or maybe that was them.

Such pretty sunsets
And below are just some more shots from the trip