It didn't take long for us to settle in to the lifestyle here in Naples. We spent Tuesday morning at the Bad Ass Coffee Co. again sipping on our drinks and people watching. Then we headed down to the beach for our daily walk. We put in 7 miles as it was so nice out that we didn't want to stop soaking in the sun.
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| Morning at the Naples Pier |
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| I call this a "B&B" but it is just someone's home |
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| Our favorite house on the beach |
We left the beach to come back to the condo for lunch. We got word that our flight home the next evening was going to be canceled so we changed our flights and headed back to the beach.
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| This genius decided to feed the birds...ugh. |
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| Another lovely sunset |
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| Another small home near the beach |
We get a real kick out of the "poverty" here in Naples. The homes are all just enormous and impeccably maintained. The nice part is that the city provides parking and beach access almost every block so the rich people don't keep us poor folks off the beach! ;) We cleaned up after watching the sunset at the beach and went to dinner with Susie. We ate at a place called "The Dock" and had some excellent food. They had shrimp nachos that were just silly good. We enjoyed walking around a marina after dinner and checking out all of the fancy boats stored there. Jackson really wants a sailboat. He always has so this is nothing new. :) We went for another stroll around the neighborhood before calling it quits for the night. Being able to go outside comfortably may never get old!
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| Bad Ass Coffee's customers of the week |
Today was more of the same! We went to the coffee shop again this morning, but today Susie came with us as she wanted to walk the beach, too. We intended to do some work at the coffee shop but Jackson forgot his stuff so I agreed that my stuff could wait, too. I'm so easy when I'm in vacation mode.
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| Enjoying the sun! |
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| Even the birds are relaxed down here |
We were so excited when we spotted dolphins right off the shore as we walked. The dolphin was "fishing" right by the beach and we watched it zoom in and catch a bite to eat. It was awesome!
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| A dolphin out "fishing" |
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| The dolphins like the beach, too! |
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| It was such a gorgeous day! |
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| We saw this nine-armed sea star washed up on the beach and thought it was pretty |
We walked all the way to the end of the beach and found this...
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| Excuse Susie photobombing nature here... |
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| The water was so clear today! |
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| This house is so large that I had to take a panoramic photo just to capture the whole thing. Insane! |
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| A lovely view... |
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| Taking a break...again! :) |
We covered about 10 miles and saw a few more dolphins playing just off the Naples Pier before heading back to the condo to get showers and go to lunch. We wanted to see Marco Island so we made the quick 30 minute drive over there and went to another seafood restaurant right on the water.
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| Boaters would stop and grab food before going back out on the water. Lucky ducks! |
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| Someone stole my boat!!! |
We enjoyed getting to watch the boats pass while we ate our "linner" on the patio. Not wanting to miss a sunset if we didn't have to, we decided to head to the beach on the island for the rest of the afternoon so we'd be around for the 6:15 show.
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| The sun starting to go... |
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| Marco's beach was really pretty, too! |
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| High-rises are all the rage on Marco Island |
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| The beach we went to was VERY shelly! |
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| You can kind of see a plane in there, too! |
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| Our last sunset of the trip... |
While we enjoyed our time on Marco Island, we much prefer the serenity of Naples. Ha! How quickly we adapt! For now our flight leaves tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 7:20 and gets us to Indianapolis around 10. Here's hoping that all works out as Jackson has a big meeting on Thursday that he'd rather not miss. (Being a grown up stinks sometimes!)
Some of you may wonder how MacKenzie is doing in Upland. She's fine! I'm sure my folks are kind of ready to be finished dogsitting by now, though. Whoops!
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| Snoozing with Madison |
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| Begging with Madison... |
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| Playing in the snow! |
She seems to be making the best of the snow and has already been playing in the new white stuff covering the ground in Upland. We're so not looking forward to dealing that that white stuff again...
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