Our little boat

This is the boat we rented...was a lot of fun to cruise around the lake to see all the big boats. We went down the lake to see Copper Canyon and then came back through the channel and under London Bridge.

The Boat Run, Lake Havasu

We rented a little jet boat to go out on the lake for our last day at Lake Havasu. The Boat Run was on the next day, so all the big boats were out on the water practicing. Even though it was a perfectly calm day, the lake was full of waves because of all the big, fast boats.

Most of the boats on the water were worth a quarter million dollars. Ones like this Gibson are too wide to fit on an ordinary boat trailer, so they haul them on their side!

When we were coming back through the channel toward London Bridge, each side of the channel was side by side huge, expensive boats. This photo doesn't do it justice, but it was a site to see.

Mike wondered if all these bikini babes came with the boat too!
This is first thing in the morning of the day before the Boat Run. They had a boat parade and it was covered by the media in helicopters.

London Bridge is falling down....

Lake Havasu is known for having London's original London Bridge (built in 1831 and closed in 1967) after which the song London Bridge is Falling Down is named after. The founder of Lake Havasu City, Robert MuColloch, in 1970 paid the city of London $2.5 million US for the bridge. He then had the bridge dismantled and each rock numbered, packed and shipped to California where it was then trucked the rest of the way to Lake Havasu City. There the rocks were unpacked and reassembled over a concrete bridge foundation which was officially opened as London Bridge in Lake Havasu on October 10, 1971.

An entire "English" village was constructed along the waterfront to add to the tourist attraction.
View of the bridge from the water.

English style housing along the bank of the channel.

Another view of the bridge...absolutely amazing that they could reconstruct the bridge and use it after it was closed down because it couldn't handle the traffic in London, England in 1967.

More Lake Havasu Fun

At Havasu Speedway they also had an arcade. Mike looked like a huge bee playing this virtual war game.
Amy was patiently waiting for the rest of us to get ready to head to the pool...Wild Magazine (thanks Bubba and Jenna!) helped pass the time.
Reading in the pool on a floaty...does it get much better than this?!
Amy was too hot to read outside the pool....she's already read six books so far! If you know Amy, this is quite an accomplishment!
Braden thought the pool water was too cold to float in, so he went in the hot tub instead.

Go-Cart fun

one night we went go-carting. What a blast!
Love the "skull caps"!

Lake Havasu

Our first night arriving in Lake Havasu. We stopped to check out this campground and caught this gorgeous sun set. We decided not to stay here as it was quite a way from Lake Havasu City. As a result, we ended up "camping" overnight at Terrible's truck stop. Always an adventure!!

Another beautiful sunset taken from Crazy Horse campground where we ended up staying for the week. We were camped right on the lake and had weather in the plus 30's the whole time except for one day when it cooled off to 22.
The kids passed some time having a noodle war one evening.
This is the view down the beach from our campsite.

Visit to Jack and Jayne's

On April 15 we drove to Palos Verdes Estates to visit our friend Jayne Hollis (nee Hedin) who was my room mate from Bible School in Sweden. Jayne travelled with us after school and was a bride's maid in our wedding. We hadn't seen each other since I was pregnant with Amy! Jack and Jayne have four children so our kids were thrilled to meet them. We had a wonderful time catching up on each other's lives and the kids got along great! We are hoping to see them one more time before heading north later in May.

The kids thought a photo of me blogging should be put on the blog...one of the rare times we had internet available in our campsite!