Your son is braver than I letting strangers drive his Seadoo, I'm sure he made that families summer though!
I was surprised he did too...the good(?) thing is it's on the water. I learned as a kid to never let someone who hasn't grown up with "it", does not get to drive "it". I was maybe 12-13, and we had 3 low income MB Housing houses right next to us, which always had families of Mexican Menno's in them...and we were driving my dad's snowmobile on a small field close to home, and the older kid asked if he could drive it.
Me, being the kind of idiot who thinks/thought - well, he's older and bigger...probably afraid I'd get beat up I dunno...maybe I'm actually stupid*...let him get on it so he could take it for a "ride" around the field. He gets on...immediately PINS the throttle, it takes off, he stays where he started, and it crashed in to a tree. Needless to say...my dad did not keep it long. Fixed it, and sold it, never saw another sled again. 40+ yrs later and I'm still embarrassed by that story. Feckin' idiot. WHen's the last time anyone from Mexico saw snow or drove a sled?
At least on the Seadoo...and Falcon being a BIG lake, he'd have time to rip the cord or stop anything bad from happening, and they'd just end up in the water. And the girls were pretty...maybe he actually does think of those things...I'd lol if he did for that reason...
*Stupid: maybe it runs in the genes. My dad got scammed (more like he fell for it hook line and sinker) and had over $3000 taken from his bank account last week. "John Valentine" (really dad? With an Indian accent and a name like that?? FFS) had him on the phone for OVER 3 HOURS...hang up. Feckin' just hang up...wonder how I'll be when, and if, I make it to 80.
That's at least the 4th, if not 5th, time he's been "scammed" in the last - oh I dunno, gotta be less than 10 yrs anyway. And he's not stupid (I think). He can remember what town and what hotel and what they had to eat from a trip they took back in 1964 with my cousin...my grandma had a photographic memory...he's almost the same...but call him and tell him is account has been compromised...
That's awesome!
Can't recall if I ever spent time there as a kid. My dad took me to Whiteshell Provincial Park all the time though.
It is pretty much the only place we go now. No other lake or camground in MB draws us like the Whiteshell, particularly Falcon. I'd live there - but a teardown cottage is almost $900k.
