Craig Schroeder:  

I married my high school sweethart Debbie Halas and we have been married 35 years. We have two kids both who are married and we have 3 grand childern as of summer of 2008. I graduated from Long Beach State as a Civil Engineer and have been doing engineering consulting with my own company for 26 years. I designed and built three houses (with the help of my wife and son) here in Downey. We live in one and rent out the others. We like traveling as much as we can afford. My brother lives in Thailand, my daughter lives in Hong Kong so we travel there quite often. In fact we were on the beach in Phuket Thailand when the water receded before the Tsunami. Luckily we were aware of the earthquake that morning and suspected a Tsunami so we left the beach. Little did we know it would be so big. We also enjoy central america and Peru. My niece adopted a Peruvian gi...Expand for more