Leave it to the Brockbanks to invite us on their family trip to Powell. I’m not sure how we get so lucky, but I think it is the constant hinting my whole family does all year long! We showed up for the last three days of their Powell extravaganza, and like always — it was SO FUN!!!
The fact that all of my kids can participate, is awesome!
This cousin (and Micah) jump was flawless, until Pippi didn’t jump until a minute later.
The crew was great.
The boat is always great - and was big enough for all 13 of us!!! My kids favorite spot was on the back — although we had enough seats.
The Brockbanks are so rad to always humor our kids — even when it means getting “make up” Zinka on from Pippi!
Our days were filled with skiing the glass, wakeboarding, wake surfing, tubing, bouldering, cliff jumping, and floating.
We brought all of our food on board, and stopped in shady spots to snack, so we had enough energy to get back on the water.
It was an awesome trip…but there were three extra elements this year, that made it one of our best trips.
#1
Someone put up a rope swing that we found, and it was sketchy and scary.
It was really hard to climb up…in fact, Scout tried and tried to get up and couldn’t. As Navy watched from the boat, she got fed up, and said, “I’ll go do it.” In about one minute, she was up!!! Scout made excuse after excuse as to why he couldn’t climb it and she could…but the fact is…Navy showed him up! Navy took a minute to get her nerves up, but then she swung out flawlessly, and released perfectly. The next time we made it to the rope swing, you better believe that Scout was the first one up!
#2
the other rad element that made this trip different, was the afternoon monsoons. They were so fun and crazy for the kids, that they ended up being a favorite part of Powell. (Probably because nothing bad happened either!)
#3
The all time greatest element that was new to us this year, was night skiing/surfing/rope swinging.
It was insane!
It was a full moon and we had to get off the lake a bit early because of the afternoon monsoon. So after dinner, we said we were going back out. It was warm, and glassy, and the best thing of the whole trip! My kids loved keeping the party going into the late hours, but some of them crashed out by the end!
From this point forward, we are going to make sure every Powell trip is geared around the full moon!
Thanks Brockbanks for always having us.
And always being so fun with our kids.
Until next year!
And leave it to my kids to find geodes in the front landscape rocks of the Airbnb.
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