Fabulous Lake Powell

Lake Powell is one of our family's summer vacation spots.

We have been boating here for 20 years.

For those of you who haven't heard of Lake Powell, it is a

reservoir in Utah and Arizona, mostly Utah that runs 150 miles

from top to bottom.  It is a boater's paradise. 

There are houseboats, speedboats, tourboats and even kayaks

enjoying every mile. 

Sheer cliffs and rock formations made of red sandstone

next to gorgeous blue-green water make for incredible

views. 

We spent the last week there with extended family.

The nights are gorgeous.  We caught this beautiful sunset.

Days are filled with boating, skiing, wake surfing, wake boarding

and the best of all "water rocket wars".

Where the focus is to board the other team's water rocket

and tip them over.

This year's new fun activity is wake surfing.  The object is to catch

the wave and then toss the rope back into the boat and hold

the curve of the wave until you fall.  It is fun and easy to try

and the fall is very gentle.  It looks scary being so close to the back

of the boat, but the propeller is back up under the boat.

I can even do it!

Like every vacation we take, food is a central part.

This trip was to celebrate my sister-in-law Kim's 50th birthday.

My other sister-in-law, Mona, made these red velvet cupcakes for

the birthday celebration.  I will follow with a post on an

award winning red velvet cake.  Red velvet cake has been

a family tradition in my husband's family.  They had a cook-off

to see who made the best red velvet cake.  I was an un-biased

judge (since I wasn't a blood relative) and my husband's brother, Greg

won and now it is one of our family favorites.

Lunches were fabulous. 

We even had brunch

 of French Toast with fresh fruit and a

buttermilk syrup.  I will give you the recipe for

the buttermilk syrup in a later post.

We even had  a delicious Oreo Cookie Ice Cream Torte.

We eat in style.

Everyone has a day of meals so we get to enjoy

everyone's talents in the culinary department.

I made a special copy of our family recipe book just for Lake

Powell so I always have recipes available.

Now that the kids have mostly grown up, I can lay back and relax.

Hope you are having a wonderful summer too.

I will be posting this with The Tablescaper on Summer Sundays.