Kansas City-Personal Narrative

One Sunday morning, early, I’d say around 5:00am or so I was laying in my bed sound asleep in my nice, cold, dark room all snuggled up in my blankets and about 8 pillows surrounding me. I was woken up by my mom and with a voice so soft but with a hint of excitement she says, “Sarah time to wake up, we have to be at the airport in an hour”. I moaned and groaned because I stayed awake most of the night just so excited about what the day had in store for me replaying situations in my head over and over again! Soon enough me and my mom are in her car driving to Kansas City to get on a plane to West Palm Beach, Florida. Our car is packed to the celling of all our bags filled with clothes, shoes, blankets, some kitchen ware, bathroom stuff and other essentials and that’s when it hit me, wow I’m leaving Kansas City. Or more like I’m leaving all my friends, family, my dog, and the house I grew up in for most my life. I took my last looks of Missouri and with every emotion running threw me I didn’t know if I was exited or scared or both to be moving to a different state!

When the plane landed at West Palm Beach, Florida my first impressions were “wow, it’s just like the movies!” and “It’s really humid”.

I remember the only thing I wanted to do right when I got there was go straight to the beach because I have never been to the beach before. I begged and begged my mom until she gave in. She said yes even though that put us behind on unpacking our necessities in our temporary house. After being at the beach for a couple of hours we went to the house, which was small. It had 1 bedroom and 1 bath with a tiny kitchen and living room. My mom was renting it temporality so me and her could have time to look at houses down there big enough to move our whole family down with us. I was so excited to hopefully find a house quick so I could be with my 4 older brothers again, I was already getting kind of

lonely.
We were there for a little over a week until my mom had an appointment with a real estate lady. We went and visited a couple of house that day and ended up making a quick decision on a house in hopes of being with the rest of our family soon. She put in an offer for a house that was 450,000 dollars. It was a beautiful house. It had all the bells and whistles you could ever imagine! It had the big vaulted ceilings for a grand entrance! A massive kitchen with black cabinets, granite countertops with fancy heated tile flooring! All brand new stainless steel appliances! It had 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms with 2 living spaces, more than enough room for my big family! Me and my mom were so exited! It took about a month to close and that’s when we called my dad and gave him the good news and the next week they were down in Florida with us! It was the time of my life!
Me and my family ended up living at west palm beach 5 years for my mom’s job. We got the opportunity to move back to Missouri and we did, everyone was home sick and we missed our extended family greatly. We all didn’t realize how much we loved Missouri until we had to leave it. One thing I defiantly learned from this experience was that you don’t really miss something till it’s gone.