Monday 29th September
Through the wooden blinds I can just about make out some blue. Blue? Blue? Yep you’ve guessed it Blue sky!!! I wake Kev up (who must have thought there was an earthquake by the way I was shouting). I stamp as hard as I can on the floor (my parents are in the room directly below – I’m not thumper from Bambi) I throw open the shutters blinding myself and Kev in the process with sunlight – I go out to the balcony look over the top and see my dad standing there grinning!! It’s a beautiful sunny day!!!
We go down to the hotel café and have some breakfast then we don our beachwear and go down onto the beach (our hotel is right on the beach). Kev and my dad take down their football and stride right out into the sea and then proceed to throw the ball to eachother and then try and head it. Every so often the sound of seabirds and waves were replaced with “owwww that’s ball’s really hard” or “I think my neck’s starting to be thumped into my body”.
We played some more in and out of the water, my mum took lots of pictures and then we decided to head in and play in the hotel’s pool and grab some lunch at the pool bar. I practice my doggy paddle and handstands and then have to surrender to my sunlounger – hey playing in the pool is hard work. After some well needed hot dogs and a diet coke (see I do drink soft drinks) we decided to go back to our rooms and shower and then go to a mall.
We arrive back at the hotel a couple of hours later with some new clothes – we are going to have dinner at the hotel’s restaurant tonight so it seemed only right we bought an outfit for the occasion!!
We head on out to the lobby bar first, say our “Hello’s” to the cocktail lady and to the pianist, who exchanged glances and giggles before asking how our heads had been this morning. We all blame the last cocktail – the Jamaican kiss – and the pianist said “I knew it was that one and nothing to do with the previous five you had all had each!!
I ask him if he could play some carpenters and then we scan the cocktail book while humming along to “close to you”. After a couple of pretty funky looking drinks we said our goodbye’s and promise to return after dinner.
We head to the restaurant and decide to sit indoors rather then outdoors. We are the only people indoors we have the entire place to ourselves and we have so much fun!! Normally just the smell of alcohol sends my mum into fits of giggles but with already two cocktails under her belt and about to start a glass of wine, we knew the giggles if started might be difficult to stop and boy did they start!!
We all shared a starter and some more wine!! Everybody loved their main course and me and my parents even managed a dessert – Kev was far too full by this stage!!
After our dinner we headed back full and fairly sleepy to the lobby bar for another round (or three) of cocktails and had to eventually peel ourselves away and go to bed.
Tuesday 30th September
Our last day in Naples – well not even a day as we planned to be on the road after lunch to drive to our villa in Kissimmee.
We once again started breakfast in the hotel café and then decided we would go for a walk on the beach. We decided to try and walk to a pier which seems forever and a day away to me but there again the hangover was kicking in nicely.
After about 50 minutes we finally reached the pier and were fairly surprised to find it packed with fishermen!! All around the pier were wild dolphin swimming around hunting the dozens of shoals of fish that we could see under the water (it was that clear!!). There must have been at least 50 dolphins all in different pods – it was amazing. About half way up the pier an Osprey was perched on top of a café/bait hut (which was doing a roaring trade) keeping an eye out for any unwanted catches. We stayed there open mouthed at everything our eyes were seeing for around twenty minutes. I really could have stayed there and watched for hours, but sadly we had to check out by eleven.
Heavy heartedly we trudged back to our hotel, few words were said on the way back as ev
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We spent some time there in the summer. Mind you, I love the Disney area too [msncool]
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