Christmas 2013 in Fort Myers, Florida.

For the first time in 30 years Barb and I spent Christmas alone!
Camped out at Gulf Air RV resort it was a very quiet time. As expected it was nothing like Christmas of past years.

Celebrating Christmas Eve at the beach

First of all it was very quiet and we had no family to look forward to visiting. Add to that the weather (warm) and lack of mall shopping and Christmas Carols didn't help either.

But we did enjoy ourselves, quietly.
On Christmas Eve we drove to Sanibel and Captiva Islands for a tour of this beautiful area. We found a nice little Beach Restaurant and Bar. Stopping in there for a while we got to watch the sun set into the Gulf of Mexico and its never the same twice. Beautiful!

Its amazing how fast the sun really does move and watching it lower on top of the water and then sink really puts it into perspective. Sitting in our beach chairs and having a refreshment was a wonderful way to relax and enjoy the evening. What really capped it all off was the nicely decorated Christmas tree in the sand beside us.

After that we were tipped off to a restaurant down the street that had superb deserts to go. Stopping there we ordered and devoured a piece of Key Lime Pie and a piece of Red Velvet Cake the best icing I had in ages!

View from the beach of where we spent Christmas Eve

As close as we got to a real Christmas Tree this year!

Getting ready for sunset on the Gulf!

Here it is, The sunsets are never the same but always beautiful!

CHRISTMAS DAY.

As I mentioned earlier this was a very quiet time for us. So we decided to go down to Naples which is about a 30 minute drive. We found a nice Italian Restaurant called Cafe Luna right on 5th Avenue which is one of two streets you have to see while in Naples (The other is 3rd Street in the Historic District).

I felt like I was right back in Italy. Looking out from inside to the street and sidewalk for some reason really brought that all back.

There were a lot of people downtown, in fact I couldn't believe how many. I left to assume they were all tourists like us looking for a place to eat?

This is a very nice town. It doesn't seem like the recession did much damage here. A lot of high end cars (Bentley, Rolls Royce etc) and high end homes. A great meal and evening! Naples we will be back!

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Barb decorating our new Christmas Tree!

We don't have a lot of room inside so here it is on the dashboard.