Dallas fun

We stayed at the beautiful Renaissance hotel with a view of the Dallas skyline.

Bill and Stacey, cutting the cake. My photo... Had fun telling stories of Bill and Randy as middle schoolers and high school basketball buddies. The stories of the huge Halloween parties at our house with Bill engineering the logistics of the event were floating around. It was fun to reminisce. We have been in touch with his parents over the years and they have visited us here in San Clemente.

We met up with San Clemente friends, Dan and Barbara G. who now live just north of Highland Village. We had fun sharing our Texas roots with them. Drove by the home we lived in. The trees have grown up! Our home in Highland Village TX.

I really wanted to go to the West End in Downtown Dallas. When we lived in TX we took our out of town guest there and Mike enjoyed many business dinners at the West End. There were three stories of shops, chocolate making, hologram shops etc.

Well, that was all gone! There were still a few restaurants, the horse drawn buggies but the 3 story building was closed. I kept thinking it was the economy...We did stop for a drink and snack. The guy we talked too said it was GANGS that took over the area several years ago and drove families and business people away. I really wanted to experience the West End again but - 11 years later - it is all changed... the City took care of the gangs but the public is not back.