Utah Lake Festival

Saturday June 2 was free fish day, as such, the Provo Utah lake Boat Harbor hosted the Utah lake festival. 

There were various booths set up; kite making, casting practice, hat making, free food, photography contest. Every member of the family was given a "passport" that needed to be stamped at each event. When the passport was full, they could redeem it for a free Utah lake Festival t-shirt. Above they are digging for shells in the sand, they found some pretty cool ones. 

Even the oldest got into the casting practice.  A few of onlookers may or may not have been hit in the head...a few times...until they moved. 

Making sand paintings with oolitic sand from the great salt lake. 

They released two hawks during the festival, it was very impressive, the kids loved it.

Cross marine projects, who do work all over the lake, offered free rides on their barges. It was pretty cool and informational...apparently the lake has an average depth of 9.5 feet which holds true just about everywhere. 

The littlest was pretty excited about this picture. 

This was a fun event with free food and plenty of activities for the family. 

We are looking forward to Orem Summerfest next weekend, one of the kids favorite city fairs.

Mirror Lake Day Trip

Mirror Lake is a alpine lake located high in the Uinta (Wasatch forest) Mountains. Every year we try to go as a family but this year kind of got away from us and it wasn't until late in September that we were able to get up there. Usually it is chilly up there this time of year, but the weather ended up being perfect.

S just fishing. Actually I think he was trying to un-snag his line.

C...Pure happiness.

H...at least I caught one.

S...un-snagged and caught a fish.

R...not sure what to think.

R...relaxing.

S...copying sis.

Pretty cool, two cousins fishing.

J was gutting the fish until C came along. I think C was born in the wrong era, he would have thrived as a mountain man.

Hot dogs and S'mores to end the day

Final tally; Over thirty fish caught throughout the day. I think Dad re-tied poles about as many poles. It is not easy being patient fishing with kids. A common occurrence went like this;

Child: I lost my bobber and fly

Dad: How?

Child: Snagged, so I pulled

Dad: Lets re-rig it (often not said with a great amount of patience)

5 minutes later...

Same Child: I lost my bobber and fly again.

Dad: How?

Same Child: Silence

Dad: How? I just did this.

Another Child: She was running through the forest with her pole and tied it up in a tree.

Same child as before: Sorry daddy.

Still with all the re-tying, "my feet are cold", "I fell in the mud", "Help me!"...and so forth.

It was so much fun and worth it!!