The Adventures of Chuck, Part 1

As I stated in my post from earlier today we spent the weekend in San Francisco with our TNT marathon team. Some interesting stories. Well, at least I hope they're interesting.

We left early Friday morning after an hour delay due to weather in SF. The team mascot (shown below) made the trip with us. We aren't completely decided on the name but he was called "Chuck" throughout the weekend and was in a lot of pictures. The picture below was taken on the way out to SF. He loves to fly, and it shows.


Friday night we had a group of about 20 head out to Alcatraz to tour the prison. It was very eerie as it was dusk and there was a heavy mist and a thick fog rolling in. They made some changes to the tour from last year and we got to see some different parts of the prison. I just can't imagine what it was like being there and am still amazed that the families of the prison guards lived right on the island with the prisoners. Weird.

On the way out to Alcatraz we could vaguely see the Golden Gate Bridge off in the distance. Chuck had never seen the bridge before other than in pictures and he commented that it was pretty cool even though we were still quite a ways away from it. Below is a picture of him - you can see the surprised look on his face when he saw the bridge. The bridge is in the distance behind him.


Chuck also enjoyed the prison tour and had us take some pictures of him inside the prison. The one below he had the most fun with. He still laughs about this one.


You may be wondering how Chuck was able to keep up with us since he has such little legs. As you can see by the picture below we often would just carry him around in our backpack. He liked that he was facing the opposite way we were going so he could watch the people behind us. He said it must have been like when we were kids and we would sit in the far back seat in the station wagon. I think he was making faces at the people behind us because we'd hear people laugh all the time.


We'll save the rest of the Chuck stories for another post. He still wants us to tell you about how he did in the marathon and has some funny stories to tell about the night of the race. Let's just say an intervention may be in order.

Stay tuned...