Last week we decided to take a last minute trip down to Naples to end summer! We flew down Thursday afternoon and had a good dinner Tommy Bahama and then had a really good beach day on Friday!

Nothing better than lunch on the beach…

especially when it’s lobster!

Unfortunately, Tropical Storm/Hurricane Debby was making her way into the Gulf and someone HAD to be back for football on Monday so we had to jet out of town earlier than expected. But, we still managed to get in one last excellent dinner at Campiello and a game of scrabble!

It was definitely too short of a trip but I’m still glad we went!

Debby was definitely a downer…

but it’s ok, we’ll be back!

While down in Naples we also…

Got our 10K+ steps every day…

Saw the Garfield movie…

Had lobster at The Bay House…

Enjoyed another day at the pool…

and at the beach…

And another sunset…

We also learned to play Scrabble! My favorite part of the trip! 🙂

Then it was sadly time to leave…

We had an adventurous trip home making our flight by a mere 15 minutes…but we made it! Another great trip in the books and we’re ready to go back!

After dinner at Buzz’s in Naples we were playing Bananagrams and realized we had left our shovels down at the beach! Uh oh! Not wanting them to wash away we headed down there right around 8pm and the kids ran out to the beach to grab them. Maxwell quickly called me and said I had to get out there…this is why!

Spectacular!

I don’t know why we’ve never headed to the beach for sunset before! Naples is the best.

The day after school got out – and after our trip to the dentist! – the kids and I hopped on a plane and headed down to Naples! Doesn’t everyone looked thrilled to be sitting together…

We got there and headed straight to Bricktop’s for a good meal and an evening stroll around Waterside…

Maxwell then gave GJ the awesome beach scene painting he made for her! I didn’t get a picture of it somehow but it’s awesome!

The next day we had lunch at the beach club…

and then headed to the beach for some serious mini pool digging.

A fantastic beach day!

That night we tried dinner at a new place to us – Buzz’s Lighthouse. Water views and good food!

I love vacation with my favorite people!