Halfway

Yesterday I mentioned 1989 briefly and 1999 a little longer; today we go back to a year about halfway between those two: 1995.

Back row: Mary, Scott, and Me. Front: Paul, Lynn, My mom, Donna, and her mom.

In May of ’95 we gathered some family and headed off to Las Vegas for a weekend because it was Donna’s mom Barbara’s 65th birthday. Donna and I flew in from South Carolina. Mom came from the state of Washington with her youngest son, Scott. Barbara’s best friend and sister-in-law, Mary, came from New Jersey with her youngest daughter, Lynn. And my mom came from Connecticut with her youngest son, Paul.

We all stayed at Circus Circus. During the day we all went our separate ways, but we all met back at the hotel for dinner together. One day Donna and I walked into every casino on the strip so I could look for just the right polo shirt for my souvenir. We all went together one afternoon to the downtown area; one stop was to try our luck to win a million and buy the $20 photo of all of us; see above. This is where all the below photos came from; the area, while revitalized with the Fremont Street Canopy, still had that slightly downtrodden old Vegas look.