Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Memorial Day Weekend


This Memorial Day weekend I am going to be spending three nights at Paradise Lakes.  Paradise Lakes is located in Bakersfield, California.  Two of my really good friends, Alexis Biaforia and Codie Tomlinson, both have homes surrounding the lakes.

Paradise Lakes consists of three ski lakes that are used for wakeboarding, tubing, water skiing and jet skiing.  My favorite activities to do on the lakes are wakeboarding and tubing.

The good thing about these lakes is that only one boat is allowed on each lake at a time.  This makes gives the water skier or wakeboarder extremely still water so that they can perform to the best of their ability rather than being on a lake with hundreds of other boats.  The lakes are very narrow and long, which gives the perfect shape for all boating activities.  Since there are many homes that surround the lake you have to take turns by rotating the boats through all three lakes.

I am not very good at wakeboarding; however, these lakes make it easier for me to learn.  Aside from being on the lake we also have dirt bikes that we take out and ride in the desert.  I can’t wait for my first wakeboard run of the season, to be able to relax and be pulled around on the tube and to then take a break from the water to ride dirt bikes.