Saskatoon’s Princess Riverside Boat Operators – Video 1.avi

When I returned from New York City here to Canada – many might know the reason was that my father was hit with stage 4 cancers. He lived and during that time we so often while he was in the hospital for six months doing 6 cycles of chemotherapy. I would go up and see him within the evenings.

He loved to watch then either the satellites, which are tied in with several areas including NASA. He would love to just focus on the satellite dishes within what is called Renovation Place. For the most part, we enjoyed watching one small boat that might have fit 10 people at best prance over the river waters from his suit within the hospital.

There was a flow to it and he so often said that when and if he beated this disease that he was going to buy a Mississippi style boat and have city council approve it and then place it on as this small little boat at the time was not much.

Well it was not done within the family, but this gentleman did it and I never realized that he had the contract and full authority of the river until today. I had been there before but as I was heading across the bridge, I thought I would look as I could see that he had started his plans with not one boat but five. Couple with that he had a Mississippi style boat on order and either it would be this summer or next.

He knew all well, which my father was and we decided to make a plan. The plan is that he shall call my folks, make plans with them, and take them on a solo trip with a meal and all. It was my thought that it might very well be a nice surprise. As well he did. Therefore, this shall be good but there was much more he knew about this river than myself. I thought the river was the North Saskatchewan River, while it’s the south. But regardless it was all to interesting as ironically it was the first day for him to get things prepared for the coming weekend.

A nice visit as well but the second as I had met with him briefly last year and ironically while we did this video, which is not perfect – one of the local television stations arrived. Ironic.

Yet, it all was in good fun.