WEEKEND EXCURSION

 Naples, Florida

• WHAT I LOVE ABOUT WEEKENDS IN NAPLES
  

  Sleeping late (late means 8:00AM to us), drinking coffee in bed with my love watching the morning news, and cocktails on the lanai watching the sunset. We also do a lot of napping, reading, working out at the North Collier Regional Park Rec-Plex and rounds of golf at our home, High Point Country Club. We also love to walk to one of our favorite spots, the 12st Pier, at least once a weekend.

• FAVE FOOD
  

  With tacos in Joe’s blood {no, really, his dad founded and created Taco Joe’s, a chain of Mexican restaurants in the Northeast}, we love to cook homemade tacos and burritos for lunch on the weekends – complete with the family secret spice recipe.
  We eat out at one of our favorite local spots, which are put on rotation. We absolutely crave Felipe’s Taqueria, Campiello’s on Third Street, Industry Pizza on Pine Ridge Road, Harold’s Place burgers on 41 and cocktails at Dusk in the Ritz-Carlton on Vanderbilt Beach Road.

• SHOPPING
  

  Little known fact about shopping in Naples beyond the luxurious hot spots of Waterside Shops, The Village on Venetian Bay and the Coastline Mall are its’ fabulous and many times close to divine consignment, second-hand and thrift stores. Some of my favorites include Home and Salvage Consignment on Taylor Street, Salvation Army Family Store on Davis Boulevard, Avow Hospice Treasures & Books on 41, and Options Thrift Shoppe on 2^nd Avenue. What’s better than a great deal on designer treasures – helping phenomenal charities at the same time.

• BEAUTY BASICS

  Sunblock, sunblock, sunblock {Burt’s Bees Sunblock}. I am hooked on Nerium for face and body, mascara and lipgloss frame my face for daytimes Saturdays and Sundays. Other weekend rituals include some sort of graphic tee, my Tory Burch flip flops and an assortment of beach shopper totes.

• WEEKEND READING
  

  Begins Thursday with Naples Florida Weekly hot off the presses; if something is going on in Naples during the weekend, it will be in this paper. Gulfshore Life magazine and endless interior design books on my Nook.