The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Secret Falls

On Saturday we decided to try out a new hike, Secret Falls.

secret falls

secret falls

It wasn’t too bad on the way out – a little muddy but not too steep and easy enough for Samantha to do with only a little help.

hike

hike

hike

You can go to both the top of the waterfall and the bottom – it was pretty awesome!! Lots of great photo ops!

secret falls

falls

falls

falls

falls

Headed to the bottom of the falls…

secret falls

falls

falls

falls

falls

Unfortunately it started raining while we were at the bottom of the falls and didn’t stop raining for our entire hike back! We were soaked, muddy, and cranky (well, some of us were cranky! ha!) We stripped down before getting into the car and all took hot showers as soon as we got home. Adventure!!

More Naples

For our final few days in Naples we went back to the beach…

beach

beach

beach

beach

beach

beach

beach

We swam and swam and swam in the pool!

pool

pool

pool

pool

Of course, we had to celebrate the 4th with some fireworks!!

july 4th

july 4

Overall it really was a great week with my sweet family.

naples

Sadly, we had to go home to go back to work. Thankfully we had smooth flights home.

naples

naples

We love Naples and can’t wait to go back!

Naples Adventures

While in Naples we did a few fun things besides just swim and go to the beach. Robert and Maxwell played golf at Tiburon. I think it was really really hot but they made it through. We might turn Maxwell into a golfer yet!

golf

golf

golf

While Maxwell and Robert were playing golf, we played our own game of Pinball at home! the best!

pinball

We also all played golf together – just of the mini variety! We sweated it out on the mini golf course and, I have to say, it was actually a lot of fun!

golf

golf

golf

golf

Guess who got a hole in one? This guy!

golf

and this guy!

golf

and this girl!

golf

and this girl too!

golf

My hole in one ended up being on the “hole of the day” so we got a free pass to come back and play again! woohoo!

Finally, the boys all went on a fishing adventure with Captain Chris. They had a great day. Spencer caught 25 fish and Maxwell caught 21!

fish

fish

fish

fish

fish

We sure did have fun in Naples! A few more pics to come tomorrow!

We flew south

Over the week of July 4th we flew south to Naples! It was hot here, it was hot there, didn’t bother us…too much! We just hopped in the pool every day to beat the heat! For the first time, we didn’t check a suitcase but took 3 carry-on size roller bags. Thankfully we had good helpers to roll them!

suitcase

suitcase

suitcase

We didn’t waste anytime getting in the pool and the ocean as much as possible over the next few days!

ocean

ocean

ocean

ocean

ocean

ocean

beach

Of course we made cookies in our favorite yellow bowl…

yellow bowl

Had breakfast at Skillets…

skillets

and swam in the pool every single day! We also went on a few adventures. More tomorrow!

Final adventure

For our final adventure on Sunday we went to St. Tropez. We took the ferry over and it was a lovely ride with views of the sailing regatta that was going on.

ferry

Don’t they look like a bunch of shark fins?

st tropez

I’m glad we went to St. Tropez but, if I went back, I’d spend the day at a beach club lounging on a chair. The city was just more of the same of what we had seen all week so not that neat by that point in the week. We did have a good lunch at La Guerite!

st tropez

And we did enjoy seeing the sights but I think we were all just ready to go home by this point.

st tropez

sights

st tropez

st tropez

st tropez

st tropez

The ferry ride back to Cannes was decidedly less pleasant than the ferry ride to St. Tropez. They said it was “rough seas” and they weren’t kidding! At least now I know I can be on a really rough ferry ride and not get seasick – many, many people that were around us cannot say the same! We were very glad to be back on solid land an hour and half later! We enjoyed one last night in Cannes…

cannes

and one last gelato! Perfection!

gelato

The next morning we all got up early to make the long trek home. 18 hours later I finally made it to this…

home

Talk about perfection! It was the most fun adventure and I am so glad I got to see and experience so many wonderful things but, as I’ve said before, the best part of going away is coming home.

Au revoir France! Merci beaucoup for all the memories!