Amanda's Army Charity event (Sept 27 ~ 28)

I didn't get to do this last year as I was just starting my new golf teaching job.  And so this year, after a busy summer, I finally decided to ask my boss for some time off.  He actually let me postpone my Sunday classes in order to go to Ohio.  What a guy :-)

So... after the overnight, Bobby decided we were going to visit some sort of popcorn store.  Well, this U-Haul center is not it!

Nevermind that, we were going in the wrong direction for the last 10-15 minutes. Found it!

And it's such a tiny store!  Bobby was totally disappointed. Ha!  But there's like so many flavors of pop-corn, although I'm not sure if I would enjoy most of them - like bacon flavored or spicy dill flavored one. Hmmm....

And across the street is the Albanese factory, where they make gummy bears. Maybe next time we'll tour that factory!

Bridge!  We are heading into Fort Wayne - quick detour for a snack:

Pretty building:

Spider on the pavement as I step out of the car?? What's with that red dot on it's back. It's tiny and I'm just going to leave it alone ;-P

Found this little coffee shop.  I ordered a mango/peach smoothie. Why is it that they always put sugar in these smoothies? What happened to just plain fruit??!

Guess it didn't matter because Graham totally finished it. 

And there's some weird murals around here!

These wings were pretty cool:

But I think Bobby won this photo op.  Ha!

Looks like we're not leaving yet?? How did Charlie get involved in a random chess match with strangers?  So much for a quick stop!

We have finally arrived at uncle Charlie's!  I still can't believe how huge this buffalo is.  Yikes!!

Charlie is practicing for the Pro-Am tomorrow :-)

And I wonder why Charlie said that his arm was sore the next day. Oh, he actually played Wii bowling too. Ha!

Me and uncle Charlie:

Can't believe we had met over 20 years ago when him and his wife were my housing host during one of the Futures Tour golf events. 

Here's the crew :-)

And we have a drone operator too! :-)

Graham was able to take some good videos and photos for the event.  Here's a photo that was taken near the house. So cool!

It's crazy to think what technology is available to us these days. And then,... we still have these old school pull cart.  Too funny. Ha!

So glad we're finally able to get together and play in Amanda's event:

Go Team, go!

This is one of my favorite photos of Big Charlie and Little Charlie:

Y'know, this photo would make an awesome silhouette!

So happy we were able to make this happen. And especially ecstatic that the boys are connecting so well with uncle Charlie.  And little Charlie found his golf bug of wanting to play more (he wants to get into the high school golf team next year?!) and Graham is quite efficient with his drone!