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Descriptive Essay: Summer In Florida
Summer in Florida is hot! It is also very crowded. The beaches are packed. If you are a parent with preteen children, then you are headed for a theme park.
Watching families try to get through the entry gates is fun - excited and energetic kids, parents smiling cautiously. They are thinking about what lies ahead.
Move over to the exit points. Here the sights are different - young voices still screaming, bodies sweaty in the summer sun, clothes sticky from juices and chocolate ice cream. Look at mummy and daddy now. The smiles are gone. They look ready to run. Home is heaven. Rest is what they want.
On such a day, after an exciting ride in a big red teacup, I was looking for a money changer. I had run out of cash. I was looking to change traveller's

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