Congrats. One of my hunting buddies got his private license about two years ago. He and his wife are moving to a lake front in NH. Now he's working on a float license.
Now that is the kind of talk I like to hear whilst discussing firewood!
My father flew Wellington and Warwick bombers in the war and he trained in Canada at Edmonton then went down to Pensacola and flew Catalinas. I did my PPL in 1978 and father always said that you are not a proper pilot until you have flown a seaplane. So in 1991 I set off to Jack Browns Seaplane base in Kissimmee, Florida and had a lot of fun on the water. Several things were new to me. Chuck Brown asked me to turn downwind while we were water taxiing into a strong headwind. I applied full right rudder but the wind was too strong for the rudders on the floats of the Piper Cub.
He showed me how to do it by applying full throttle, which lifted the nose out of the water a bit and moved the centre of buoyancy back which in turn meant that the wind now blew the tail round to downwind!
Later as I was becoming a little too cocky with my abilities, we were flying over a small lake and he said "Do y'all think you can put her down in there" I said sure and put the Cub down in the lake perfectly. Easy as the floats act like ABS on the water. Must have had that cocky look on my face when Chuck said "That was real nice, a real nice landing, but had y'all thought about how you are going to get out of here?!"
I looked around and there was no way that there was room for a straight take off. I said " Well you got me there Chuck, I suppose I shall have to pay for the recovery truck!"
He just smiled and said "Watch this" Then proceeded to do a circular take off on the lake gathering speed then onto one float before turning into wind at a good speed.
Whilst in Kissimmee I met Lee Lauderback of the Stallion 51 When you gain your water wings this is your next mission!
I was in heaven mentally and physically. If I had to go to war in 1943 then a Mustang would be the plane I would fly.