I was going through a box of photos the other day and found family pictures from when I was in junior high school. It was spring break 1985 and we were in Lake Powell! Twice during my teen years, we visited Lake Powell and rented a houseboat.
I'm obviously not going to make it on the boat. Can someone give me a hand? As you can see...eons before blogging was invented, parents took pictures of their kids in a predicament BEFORE helping them.
This must be where I got my love of visiting places in the OFF SEASON because a year later we'd visit Lake Powell during Thanksgiving. It is cold in November and March but the prices can't be beat! You also have the entire lake to yourself!
Here we are in a dinghy. It's windy and my hair is getting messed up and those are my actual sunglasses and yes, my pink collar is popped. The 80's were very good to me.
I have amazing memories from these trips! I spent hours and hours reading, eating oreos and drinking hot tea. I also spent hours practicing my cheers because I was going to try out for cheerleading and I wrote GREG AND CONNIE in the sand every chance I got. Sadly, Greg never loved me back......
A vacation where you sit around reading and eating Oreos sounds like my kind of vacation.
ReplyDeleteOh, poor Greg never knew what he was missing. :) Enjoy your snow day today!!
ReplyDeleteLooks like so much fun! Great boat!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but it cracks me up that you're on a dinghy. LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd the name of the boat in the first picture...You're so clever!!
This one time I got beached like a freaking whale trying to get on a boat. So not funny!
I'm diggin' the sunglasses!!!!
ReplyDeleteHow was staying on a house boat? I've enevr done that, but kind of want to! Unless, of course, it means I'll spend all night in the fetal position trying not to throw up.
Well look at you!! I've gotta find some old pictures.. the 80's were the best days!! I wonder if writing your name in the sand is bad luck b/c I did it too and the dude didn't work either.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid I wanted desperately to go on a houseboat and drive across the country in an RV. Both sounded like so much fun but I never got to do either. Not sure I realized that you might have to climb onto the back of the boat like that though!
ReplyDeleteYou looked Haught in the 80's!!!! I have tons of great memories from family trips like that! Good call!
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Connie...look at YOU! You were rockin' those white sunglasses and popped collar. Oh the 80's. I don't miss those days but all the stores lately think the 80's need to come back. I'm a little scared. I didn't save any of those clothes.
Do you make the cheer-leading squad?? I had a friend that was way into it and always tried to talk me into it but I was a band girl.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, loving those glasses.
I'm pretty sure that Greg was just intimidated by the popped pink collar. You 80's girls were very hard to approach you know?
ReplyDeleteLake Powell looks wonderful though. An entire lake to myself is my idea of paradise. As long as there's stairs to help me get in.
I can't tell from the pic if you have on double scrunched socks...that would really make you an 80's icon...
ReplyDeleteLove the 80s! Good times! You look perfect.
ReplyDeleteHours spent eating cookies and drinking tea...oh I could go for that right now! Loved this flash back:)
ReplyDeleteGirl look at you rocking' the pink Izod with the collar up and the huge white sunglasses! Ahh the 80's, we had such a love hate relationship. I loved while I was living it but hate it as I look back on it through pictures. Me and pleated front jeans pegged at the ankles were not a good combination!
ReplyDeleteCan I tell you how much I miss The Connie Diaries?
ReplyDeleteAnyway - I always get a kick out of your old pictures. And I loved your last comment on my own blog. I need to e-mail you. So many thoughts on the Kindergarten year...
you were so 80s fab!! I don't even know where Lake Powell is haha
ReplyDeleteThe 80's were totally good to you! LOOOOVE that pink popped collar. I did that too... Holla!
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