Family accomodations are a minority
What happened to the days that coming to the lake was a family event and recreation. I was fortune enough to experience a family childhood of growing up on a lake and boating. Unfortunatley, the current generation of cottage and owners of lake property are the grandparents or the parents of middle age and older children. The result is that the younger families are having lunch and dinner at the grandparents house because of affordablity. The restaurants are gearing their services and style on the clientele of the grandparents and great grandparents whose children have left the nest. The occasional visit to the restaurant with all the children only happens on special occassions or holidays. This sytem will work until the older parents and grandparents can't afford their lake homes and sell out to the millionares.
Eventually, the families and kids will be spending their day and night boating with the cooler and munchies from the local grocery store verses dining out in a restaurant. That boating trip for ice-cream will become dinner with the kids! Certainly, the Canoe's policy for discriminating with kids or speicalizing in adults who prefer not to be with kids will diminsh their family entertainment. So sad that the discussion of raising families and have fun with kids has become a financial bearing matter for the innocent.
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