Sarasota, Florida

Saturday, Feb. 25th-We spent the night in the driveway

of our good friends Lori and Todd.  Lori is a trombonist

with the Sarasota Symphony and both she and Todd played

at our wedding.  It was fun to see their lives in Sarasota.

After we parked Miss Jim B, we immediately took off

for a brief trip to the beach.  Siesta Key is voted the number 1

beach in the US.  Janae and Stefan were thrilled with the

white, powdery sand and expanse of the the beach.  Unfortu

nately, my camera was out of juice and I didn’t get very

good pictures.  I got to go hear Lori play with the symphony.

She sounded great on principal playing the overture to Nabucco.

Sunday morning, was a special treat as they took us to Siesta Key

Presbyterian Church.  It was an awesome service.  The church

Is wooden and sits high up in the trees-kind of like a tree

House.  They foyer is outside and every Sunday congregates

From a different state bring the food.  Michigan brought

The food this week and it was quite a spread, complete

With rootbear floats.  What made the service special was

The wonderful serman on wilderness.  She made a

Wonderful point that in landscape, it would be boring if

All we saw were rivers and ocean.  We need forests and

wilderness for the beauty of the landscape and so it is

with the Christian walk.  We need the wildernesses

to add beauty and depth to our lives.  It’s a serman, I’m

going to  try and get a copy so I can listen to it again.

Especially enjoyed the music.  Great  hymns with folks

singing out of the hymnbook.  NO SCREENS!! Awesome!

After church, we went out to eat at a great lunch spot in Siesta

Key and then spent a couple hours at Siesta Key Beach.

best beach for walking

"Mom this is the best sand, This is even bigger than Tinytown"