After going to Lake Powell the past couple of summers with our friends the Harrills we decided it was time to start looking into finding a houseboat for our family. Since Yellowstone is so far away and is hard for most of our siblings who don't own an RV for camping, we decided we needed to find something the Vreekens to do in the summer as a new tradition.
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ent on summer trips to Lake Powell, Fish Lake, Flaming Gorge, and of coarse Yellowstone. Since all of us love the water and many of us have watercrafts, we decided this was the summer to to start checking into houseboat ownership. It all happened pretty fast - we went on line and "Googled" Lake Powell houseboats, came across this company called "Sunrise Peak" out of Salt Lake that specializes in Lake Powell timeshares, contacted them, and before we knew it we'd found a houseboat with the size, layout, ammenities, color, marina, and week we wanted. We made an offer, it was accepted, and a month later we were on our way to Bullfrog to spend a week on our new houseboat. There were a few unexpected surprises unfortuneately - but overall it was a great new adventure and one we hope will become a loved tradition for the extended Vreeken family.
ent on summer trips to Lake Powell, Fish Lake, Flaming Gorge, and of coarse Yellowstone. Since all of us love the water and many of us have watercrafts, we decided this was the summer to to start checking into houseboat ownership. It all happened pretty fast - we went on line and "Googled" Lake Powell houseboats, came across this company called "Sunrise Peak" out of Salt Lake that specializes in Lake Powell timeshares, contacted them, and before we knew it we'd found a houseboat with the size, layout, ammenities, color, marina, and week we wanted. We made an offer, it was accepted, and a month later we were on our way to Bullfrog to spend a week on our new houseboat. There were a few unexpected surprises unfortuneately - but overall it was a great new adventure and one we hope will become a loved tradition for the extended Vreeken family.
Sunday morning, July 6th, we started for Yellowstone, and arrived in the park in the afternoon to see a new-born elk calf and mother right as we got inside the park. We also got there just in time for a major hail and rain storm while we were waiting for our church services to start at Canyon Village. Just as the meeting was about to start, mom and dad Vreeken drove up with Cheri, Adam, Cindy, Ruston and Bella, and the rain stopped. Wayne and Ann Sundberg were there setting things up and Wayne said, "Okay, that's enough now" and the rain stopped! Thank goodness Heavenly Father was listening! We had a wonderful testimony meeting, and then we didn't get rained on again the whole trip - we had beautiful weather the whole time. The park received so much snow last year that our favorite swimming spot (Firehole River) was closed this year because of high waters. The rivers, streams and lake were at full capacity. The whole park was a month behind it's regular season so we got to enjoy many of the beautiful Spring flowers that are usually gone by July.
