Big D for Dallas!

American Airline Center home of the Mavs -NBA Champs

We arrived in Dallas and found ourselves in front of the American Airline Center where the basketball playoffs had been played the few nights before. John was so excited about seeing the beautiful stadium, he jumped out and took a picture. We found out by asking several people admiring the center, that we were far away from the Double Tree hotel that we had booked through out frequent flyer program. We plugged in the Garmin Girl and gave her the address. With the Dallas traffic we needed every bit of help we could get and we were banking on the Garmin Girl to get us there. By golly, she came through by navigating us through some very tricky freeway switching in the labyrinth of highways.

We got to our hotel and checked in and went to see the well, equipped workout room then we went to check the pool which was a perfect lap pool sparking clean as if no one had used it for a very long time. We got our luggage to the room and found our workout gear and swimming suits and spent the next hour letting out bodies do their thing after a long drive. IT felt like heaven to hit the cool water on such a hot day. We usually play catch with our Florida Gator football but since we had forgotten it, we took a pair of socks and bundle them up and had ourselves a time tossing it back and forth. Most pools in the campgrounds frown upon tossing games in the pool, but hotel pools that get little use don't seem to care, or at least no one came out to see what we were doing.

The Double Tree is part of the Hilton chain and they spare little expense in the room accessories. Many of these hotels cater to the business crowd by making their meeting rooms available to have conferences. This being the case many companies pay for any frills that their employees may need. For this reason the hotel did not provide free Wi-Fi or free breakfasts. In fact when we looked down the atrium from our room in the morning, the dining room was full of people going through the breakfast buffet. I wasn't going to complain since we got the room for "free." I went ahead and used my own wireless system. We decided to pack up early the next morning and since we were not going to have breakfast there, we asked them for cookies to go. They have the best chocolate chip cookies always warm to the touch. With these in our tummies we could drive for several hours and stop for lunch down the road!