Bear Lake

Our cabin in Garden City, UT was right on the shore of Bear Lake, and the kids played in the sand at the water's edge from dawn 'til dusk -- literally.



We did a good job of keeping the kids covered up from the sun, but I didn't fare quite so well. The shape of my life jacket was very obvious on my shoulders and chest.



There were several little squirt guns and Katie liked to hold one in her mouth and just drink from it. This would be fine, but she kept trying to refill it from the bucket we used to wash the muck off our feet before coming in the cabin. Finally, we got a special ice cream pail full of water just for the little kids.







The lake is quite large and with storms in the area each day there was always enough wind to churn up the lake and create fairly large waves. Although we had arranged for a boat rental 2 of the 3 days we were there, we ended up exchanging it for an extra wave runner in the afternoon both days. With huge waves everywhere, those were lots of fun. Even the kids got into it, taking turns to help steer a bit. Scott liked to keep it at about "11" (mph).



Hayden was hilarious. Each time he went out he was given a bit more control until the last day when I took him out and he ran the whole show -- I was just there to hold on and make sure we didn't crash into anything. He was running it with the throttle wide open and cutting hard turns all over the place, laughing like a maniac and jumping over the other wave runner's wake. The only thing that could slow him down was getting splashed in the face. He didn't like that.