04/02/26 Trip to Italy, Day 10, Thursday, Naples

K, honestly, getting kind of worn out at this point! haha.

We had a nice breakfast at 9:30 a.m. then hung around waiting for Ruth and chilled playing games on the patio.

Then once Ruth arrived we played games waiting for the guy to check her in. Then we went to lunch at a cheesesteak place Becky and Kevin love, found the castle from the other day but it was open today! yeah! and a high elevator with a beautiful view of the city. Turns out the elevator was really close to our apartment!!

Honestly, the elevator was a game changer for me and Andy. We were able to get up to our place SO much easier than the way we had been going. And at $1.50/each per ride...it was well worth it to use it over the next couple of days.

We played some more games and then Ruth and Chris and us went to dinner and the supermarket we found.

The nativity in our hotel

Baby Jesus

Pork on Fries from the Philly Cheesesteak palce

Beautiful ceilings

Shelly, Becky & Ruth at the Castle

Naples

Elevator

Andy waiting for the elevator

Not sure how many stairs/floors this was...but a lot!

View from the top of the elevator

Naples

So happy we found the elevator!

More yummy pizza

Penne

Pizza

Comments

01/12/26 Just a couple of things going on

Every Monday night we do family night pizza. This has included Eldon and Diane for quite awhile now. They left on a round the world cruise and will be gone from January - May. So we sent them a pic of these two cuties and told them we missed them. Found this fun scratch off -- you can mark everywhere you've been. We want to travel in our retirement and thought this would be a fun way to keep track of it. (We also have a world map but I think 1 on the wall is enough). SO this is our little inspiration wall to remind us to get out and see the world! Holly painted this picture on her wall a couple of years ago. I added some words and music notes in vinyl to it. I'm working on turning her bedroom into my music sanctuary. The WELCOME pineapple sign was starting to peel off. I took off all the vinyl and painted the words instead. Gave it a nice refresh! We signed up for classes at the college too -- currently we are taking World travel, AI (artificial intelligence), Aging an...

06/16/25-06/20/25 Yellowstone

We had a really great week on our Yellowstone trip. We stayed at a VRBO cabin in a remote cabin in Ashton, Idaho. It was just right for our group. We were able to go to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Mesa Falls, the Yellowstone Playhouse, Lava Hot Springs Pools and Slides. We drove lots, played games, did puzzles, roasted hot dogs, made s'mores, enjoyed picnic lunches, ice cream at the frost top, dinners together made by each lil family and so much more. Loved it! (There are lots more pictures in our shared Yellowstone google album. Also, these pictures are not in order of happening. )

01/13/26 How Many Cookies?!?!?

I planned to visit Washington City and go to the ladies luncheon (they do it monthly on shut off day). I found a new recipe that included putting smashed pretzels in the mix. (I had smashed pretzel, cereal mixture leftover from Christmas). The recipe said it would make 22 cookies. I figured I would triple it and have 66. Welp...they must have been some BIG cookies they were making...cause I got 126 cookies!!!! What the heck?! I backed 24 of them and put the rest in the freezer. Someone will have a nice treat another day!

Griffin Family

Search This Blog