Nothing is like when we were kids. The best part of "working" here is living IN the valley and not having to deal with the massive crowds to get in and out of the park.
Hey, Annie, sounds like you work there. By any chance are you acquainted with either Jason Wingler or Andrew Crow? Jason works in the valley(and is there over the winter), and last I heard, Andrew was up at Tuolumne Meadows before the season ended(currently headed home for the holidays).
I know, there's lots of people working there, but I'd love someone to walk up to one of them out of the blue and say, "your parents are keeping an eye on you."
Another of my sons was working in a restaurant in Arkansas when one of my on-line friends from a motorcycle group did that to him. I was 400 miles away when I got the call from the kid wanting to know what was going on. Cracked me up.