Resort Living!

I'm going to skip over our time in Venice, FL and our visit with Greg and Janet to do those in a later post so that I can tell everybody about our enjoyment of Sun 'n Fun RV Resort in Sarasota, FL. First, the resort is in a great location - only 10 minutes from Sarasota's cultural venues, shopping and incredible beaches. Plus, it's only 20 minutes from the natural beauty of Myakka River State Park. However, that's only if we want to escape what they call "the bubble".

The bubble is the incredible activity filled life within the Resort that is so busy that it's tempting never to leave the park. There's every activity you could possibly imagine: jewelry, stained glass and wood workshops, every summer sport, a huge gorgeous pool, mah jong and other games, weekly folk music jam session, craft activities, dulcimer lessons, etc. etc. Plus everybody is very friendly.

We're here for 17 nights and trying to take advantage of as much as possible. Yesterday, I was one of 65 at the 10:30 water exercise session. Then I went to a craft session that had a choice of 10 different crafts. In the evening, we first went to an hour of "bar bingo" then we went to the folk music jam session. This morning, I'm up a bit early to one of the two weekly Mah Jongg sessions. This afternoon we're going to check out the Pickle Ball and then we'll probably go to the pool. In addition to all the activities, this is a huge park (800 sites) so just riding our bikes around the park is a nice activity.

The price for all this fun - only $5 more a day than the boring campground we were last at. It's a bit above our average site cost but works out well for the budget because we're not paying for RV gas like we do when we're traveling.

We're seriously considering coming here for 3 months next winter. Oh yes - another advantage is that we're only two hours from Disney World so we could meet friends there!

Yikes time to have breakfast and get to Mah Jongg.