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Show Publisher shares experience Thank heaven for friends Night was coming fast and clouds were hanging heavy and dark over the horizon when all of a sudden the wind By Michael Stansfield It is said that there are certain things which fill the heart with nothing short of love. Those things are friends. Those things are happenings with friends that can never be forgotten, never disregarded. We have made some wonderful friends since we've been in Cedar City and had some exciting ex-citing happenings with those friends, such as our camping trip to Lake Powell over Labor Day weekend. With 19 kids and 8 adults we felt a little like John D. Lee must have felt with all his wives and kids as he set out to establish Lee's Ferry. In our party were Boyd and Doris Hall, James and Gae Lynn Froyd, Clyde and Marsha Harding and DuRell and Phyllis Hall and their families. With visions of our hardy ancestors we loaded ourselves down with everything necessary for an overnight camping trip, food, medicine, diapers, tents, tables, etc. And after only five trips across the lake we finally got all our gear over to the other side and settled down to the task of getting camp ready for the evening. mind numb and that I had not been inventing some new game for them to play. Later, we skied and swam and jumped off the rocks, ate an excellent dinner and prepared for the night. All of us had staked down the tents and prepared for the worst, except James and Gae Lynn. They had a tent which they called a "caravan tent", (I called it a monstrosity). It had five different roofs, each one on top of the other presumably to keep the rain off and the inhabitants dry, or so the story goes. I'm convinced that it was used for high altitude flights because about 1 a.m. I hear a high pitched scream as their tent went soaring Gae Lynn on one side and James holding fast to the other. I have it on the best authority that both of them fell asleep at their posts that night holding up the tent. All in all it was an unforgetable occ-casions, occ-casions, fun and good company. I'm sure we've all had experiences which are similar. And what makes those experiences speical is that they become one of those certain things or happenings with friends that can never be forgotten or disregarded. came fast and furious. Doris grabbed their tent as it came flying by over her head, Phyllis tackled her baby and I, I grabbed the beach unbrella and experienced ex-perienced flight. Up, up I sailed (it must have been at least 25 feet up) leaving the beach, the lake and all I cherished far below. It is true that your life flashes before your eyes because everything I had done raced quickly through my mind. (Although I did have an eight minute blank for which I shall be eteranlly grateful.) Shortly much to my amazement the wind died down and allowed me to float gracefully to the ground. My kids were all excited and wanted to play the new game which I had just invented, little realizing that my knees were shaking, my heart pounding, my |