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Yeah, it was a fun day. And I think I heard Kevin on the good morning. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but I thought I heard Kevin. No, it was a fun day. And George, we did. That gate walked them out of the old part of the swimming pool to that old hotel. And if I remember that, that was the very first in-ground hotel pool in Texas. I'm pretty sure that's true. So yeah, that actually goes over a walkway. I really should go. I'll go down there. I'll go down there, George. Me and my wife. We were talking about this yesterday. I'll go down there and take some good pictures. It was a little hard to do with the grands. But yeah, so that Baker Hotel, it was funny. It was opened in 1929, right after the Great Depression hit. Or whatever it was called. I'm still not awake yet. And it stayed open until the late 70s. Mr. Baker, the guy that built it, he owned quite a few of them. There's a sister hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas that is still open and functional. And so this one here, they are in the midst of remodeling. And they're going to try to get it back and open by 2029, they say. But they've been working on that for around 10 years. And the initial start to finish project plan was three years. And that was right before COVID. So I'm sure COVID had a lot to do with it. And then price increases, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it's been closed my whole life. I've never seen that hotel open. We have another hotel, I'll get pictures of it, called the Crazy Water Hotel. It's not nearly as tall or as big, but it is open. It has remained open all these years, either as a retirement home or a hotel. So yeah, it was a lot of fun. That's Snow Hill. That was pretty cool. Every year they try to do something different. They brought in a nice skating rink before. They brought in, last year it was a maze of some sort. I forget exactly how it was built, but it was okay, I guess. But yeah, it seemed like the little Snow Hill thing, that seemed to be the favorite over the past few years, I think, for all the kids. We had to wait in line for a good 30, 40 minutes just to get up there. Anyhow, you could tell Oliver had fun. Amber Lee only did it once, and she said that was enough. But Oliver, he wrote it three or four times. And of course I loaded them down with a lot of sugar and sweetness and fun stuff. And they went home. I enjoyed being a poppy. KJ5 IRQ. B3FBX. So that's a grandparent's job, isn't it? Load them up on sugar and sweet and hand them back to mom and say, have a good night. Yeah, I think it was one extremely another. Either no one would be on, or there'd be some of you on or something like that.