Boat Trouble

Friday evening we all took our boats out to play.  In our boat we had me and Wyatt, Sadie, Kamryn, and Kamryn's two friends Austin and Dylan.  Derek and Brynli had gone on the Hardings boat.  We decided to go exploring some of the canyons.  We had gone down Davis Gulch (one of the side canyons off the main channel) when all of the sudden our boat quit.  There was no power at all.  Wyatt, being the mechanic that he is, tried to diagnose the problem, but to no avail.  There were no other boats in sight so we got out the oar and a ski and started paddling toward the main channel.  After paddling for quite some time we decided we had better say a prayer and ask for help.  After the prayer we continued paddling toward the main channel.  I totally felt calm and peaceful and knew that everything would be alright.  It was getting dark so we told the boys to try and go to sleep.  (Sadie was already asleep, she slept through it all).  We finally got to the main channel and tied our boat to the buoy.  We figured that we could just spend the night there and in the morning there would be someone to tow us back to the houseboat.  We found some dry towels to act as blankets for the kids and got ready to spend the night on the boat.  We figured that the others back and the houseboat would be a little worried since they didn't know where we were  (and we had a couple of their kids).  Wyatt and I were totally calm and ready to spend the night on the boat.  The kids were all asleep and Wyatt and I were just about to go to sleep when we heard a boat in the distance.  Randy and Mike had come to rescue us.  They towed us back to the houseboat.  Luckily the moon was bright so we could see a little better  in the dark.  It was about 12:30 when we finally made it back safe and sound.  What an adventure.