So Lloyd teaches as well?
Yeah, he teaches at South Middle School in Grants Pass. So the park held a real special ness when we were living next door to each other. I have two kids and he has two kids. The cousins genetically are half brother and sister. So it’s strange, all four of them, none of them even come close to looking alike. They’re either tall, short, skinny, stocky-built, even the hair color doesn’t match. All four of the cousins, their personalities don’t come anywhere close to each other. So my son hated school, his cousin graduated valedictorian from Grants Pass High School. The cousins are very close, growing up together was an opportunity that most cousins don’t get. Our house were next door to each other for about eight years. For three or four years, Lloyd was on the first level of the Stone Houses and I was up in 24, so the kids had a trail that they ran back and forth on. So that’s another thing—Crater Lake was a family affair. On the fourth of July, my parents always came to Crater Lake. They brought their little motor home, parked it, and spent a week with us, every fourth of July because our birthdays were on the third. I was working one weekend up there on Valentine’s Day and it was Amber’s fifth birthday and so the whole family came up and spent the night with us. They brought their kids up and my parents came up and spent the night. We asked if we could use the school house, what do they call it now?
Community Center.
Community Center. I grew up knowing it as the school house (29). We asked if we could use it for dinner, oh sure, no problem. They gave us the key. We went over and cooked dinner there, the wives did. We had a big birthday party with the snow piled up ten feet high and the family all there.
