Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Labor Day in Naples

I've never been to Naples before, so over Labor Day weekend we packed up the Wang family car and headed over to the southwest coast of Florida for a Saturday night stay.

We made it into Naples, checked into the hotel, grabbed some dinner, and headed to a sunset cruise aboard the Naples Princess.  It's too bad it was cloudy out...not much of a sunset when it's cloudy, but it was still a nice 2 hour cruise around the canals of Naples and out into the Gulf of Mexico.  We saw lots of (empty for the summer) houses...more like mansions...and even a dolphin.




Next up was the Naples Botanical Gardens.  My parents and aunt love gardens and gardening so I thought this would be a great place to visit.   We were all impressed with the gardens and decided that we'd all have to come back again once it was a bit cooler.

Checking out the Water Garden

In the Butterfly Garden where there were definitely a lot of butterflies

The main accomplishment of the day: Determining the difference between water lillies and lotus flowers



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