Free Write: Sarasota, Florida

For all of my life, my family has always talked about one day getting to live in Sarasota, Florida. Away from the major cities in south Florida, but just close enough to spend a day at Disney, Sarasota's near-pink sand and gorgeous people always seems to come up into our lives when we need it the most.  Two years ago, my family and I took a trip to Disney World over Christmas break. Part of the trip was to spend a day down in Sarasota. As it had been almost 10 years since my mom had seen her friends in town, we spent the day reaquainting ourselves with the beautiful western Florida keys, and visiting with some of our oldest family friends. Though our day was short, it was nice to be able to see what Sarasota had to offer. This past summer, I had just gotten back from a trip to my beach house in Navarre, Florida with some of my friends, and my mom decided that we would go back to Sarasota for about a week or so, not only to enjoy some time with our friends and have some more time at the beach, but also to look at real estate for another home, somewhere to spend our summer. After the trip, we had a pretty good idea of what we wanted.  When we went back to Disney World this past Christmas, we visited Sarasota one more time, and had the entire day to ourselves. You would expect that on New Year's Eve, it would be cold as can be, but it was nearly 90 degrees, and it was paradise! I love Sarasota, the people in it, the shopping, and of course the beach. I hope that one day soon I will be able to go back down to Sarasota and be able to call it my 2nd home.