Last night we headed out for our annual walk of Naples, to check out the holiday light displays. Naples is a well-to-do area of Long Beach, designed around a series of artificial canals. The most expensive homes face the canals, have docks and boat slips, and each year participate in a light show, a sort of holiday keeping up with the Joneses thing. The really big deal is the Naples Boat Parade, which has been happening since 1946. We missed that, but the house lights are usually up until after New Year’s. So a bunch of us gathered at our house then caravaned down the two miles to Naples, parked, then walked the exhausting .84 miles it takes to walk around Naples. The lights were great this year, and much ooohing and aaaahing ensued. We ordered pizza on the way home for 16 folks who had come over – three large pizzas. They misunderstood the order, and delivered three medium pizzas, which were immediately consumed and the hungry hordes were in short order clamoring for more. I was reminded of Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge stage show – the three little pizzas were comically inadequate for the crowd. It all worked out in the end (once we ordered more pizza) and everyone got sucked into watching Jurassic Park (it started as a demonstration of Chuck’s surround sound system) which even after seeing it a zillion times is still a fabulous film.

A good time was had by all. Light pics are here.