Pleasant Hill Picketts - Day Three

Sam had a Cub Scout outing Sunday and it was a wonderful opportunity not only to spend time with Sean, Julie and Sam but also to connect with an important part of Marilyn's family history.  Marilyn's Dad was crew chief on a B 24 during World War II.  He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service and we are all very proud of him.  In fact, he will be part of an Honor Flight from Buffalo to Washington this weekend where he will join a group of his fellow World War II veterans at the Memorial in our nation's capital.  The reason this is especially relevant to our trip is that Sam's Cub Scouting was to a display of a B 24, B 17, and a P 51 Mustang at a local airfield in nearby Concord CA.

Marilyn in front of the area where her
Dad would have worked in his B 24.

Marilyn had a wonderful time exploring the plane about which her Dad had told her so much and in which he provided his remarkable service to us all.  I created special photo album for the pictures from that display.  You can click here to view them.

I also got some nice video of the P 51 Mustang taxi and takeoff while we were there.  You can view that in the window below.




After spending time at the display, we headed to a local pizza restaurant where the Cub Scouts devoured several pies and then celebrated their year of scouting.  Sam will advance to the Webelos by the end of year and will then advance into the Boy Scouts.  We are all very proud of his achievements as well.  It was great to see him interacting with his den mates.

After a nice dinner, we said good by and drove over to Petaluma to spend a couple of days with our friends Barb and Bill Crowley.  More about that in next trip blog.

Click here to see an updated photo album of our time with Sean and family in Pleasant Hill.