FUN at Palisades!!!

The Averett Clan went to Palisades so Johnny could golf in the Palisades State Ameteur. We didn't want Johnny to have ALL the fun so we planned a day of fishing and invited the best fisher of them all, Grandma Lizzy (we actually invited everyone in the family but she was the only one we "hooked"). The boys packed their rafts and life jackets for a day at the lake.Grandma Lizzy caught the first fish of the day. It only took her 20 minutes. She did need some help. Rhiannon had the let her know that her bobber was under the water. Warren caught it with the net and it was up to Rhiannon to get the hook out of the fish's mouth.

Wally and Bennett tried to catch baby fish with their fishing net.

Johnny surprised us and went out on the raft. He needs to remember to wear a life jacket!

Wally's heading out on one of his rafting excursions. Looks like trouble to me.

Bennett tried his luck at fishing. He didn't know that he was using the unlucky fishing pole. The fishing pole that doesn't catch ANY fish. He still had fun reeling in the line.

Our trip to Palisades was a BLAST. Grandma Liz showed us all up by catching 5 fish. She practiced her catch and release skills after bringing in an over grown "gold fish" and she left a fish at the lake with a bobber attached to it. We tried twice to get that fish to shore but it out smarted us by taking the bobber under the water. The boys had fun making their own fishing poles out of sticks and tying fish line and a hook to their sticks. If they wasn't fishing they were paddeling their rafts around the lake. We had an unexpected storm come through which gave us time to practice our pictionary skills with crackers and cheese. On our way home we stopped at Manti Temple to run up the hills and visited a museum in Fairview.