Monday, November 21, 2022

Weekend in Naples - LPGA and Cousin Chris

We drove to Naples, FL on Saturday morning, seemed like a forever drive on the road! We arrived in plenty of time to check into our hotel (Courtyard with mini-kitchen). We drove to the golf course and headed to Chris' home at 5:30 p.m.
We met Laurie and chatted with her while Chris was cooking in the kitchen, so many good things, short ribs, rib-eye, rice, stir-fry veggies, spinach dip as the appetizer, and pastries for dessert (Ford selected the red velvet cupcake, AA and I shares the fruit cookie tart). Photo of their backyard (stole from Chris' Facebook):
Their home is right on a canal, water views all day long, Chris said it is not a good fishing area so he seeks out the pier or other lakes. His living room had a rack of many fishing poles, garage full of disc golf equipment and a lovely screen porch. We chatted about Chris' time in Maine, about 1993, BIW, snow skied, went to the Byrnes Irish Pub (Naples, ME), been to 32 countries, doesn't eat fish much, loves spicy Thai food. Both Laurie and Chris do not drink alcohol. Laurie grew up on farm near Rochester NY, moved to Albany NY, trained therapy dogs, gets migraines if she drinks alcohol, says no to spicy food, lobster and shellfish, she has three kids (one moving to Arizona), rode horse in water, wants to drive her Jeep on a beach, dislikes flying, they drove to the Grand Canyon.
Print in their home and in our hotel room:
Dinner:
Gifts from Chris and interesting foods. He made a delicious dipping sauce of siracha:
The LPGA tournament was very nicely run, the golf course was immaculate, no rough areas! We watched many ladies play including catching Lydia Ko at the first hole (she won at -17 under!).
The 2022 LPGA Tour season finishes with the CME Group Tour Championship, which will be played November 17-20 at the Tiburon Golf Club at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, FL.
Added my purple rain/wind breaker as it was cold!
Free Publix ice cream samples: Pumpkin pie, Christmas mint and eggnog. All YUM!
Followed several groups:
Windy and damp weather!
For dinner, Ford found an Italian restaurant close by. Was very good food, enjoyed our meal. Back to the hotel, got up in the morning and drove to Nana Joy's for a quick visit.
Garlic bread knots - delicious!
Restaurant and menu:
And one picture from Carolyn of Ginger - all is well at her home:

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