CHARLIE CHOWDER IN AMERICA

Charlie, Kaye and Tim went off to the USA to tell the family that they were married (Kaye and Tim that is!).

 
USA 

Charlie overcame his fear of heights to scale the Empire State Building in New York, with the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in the background.  Kaye considered researching whether clams bounce when flung off high buildings, but was disuaded from carrying out her research. 
 

Whoa!  A killer whale & leopard seal almost got Charlie & Tim, who weren't expecting to find them at the Natural History Museum in NY, so far from their Antarctic homes.  We escaped with minor scars.
Charlie & Tim were in awe to stand next to the "James Caird", the actual tiny wooden boat which the explorer Ernest Shackleton sailed all the way across the treacherous Southern Ocean in the Antarctic to save his men.  Unbelieveable!  Charlie put himself forward to play Shackleton in the upcoming Hollywood film, but some nobody called Liam Neeson apparently got the part.
Charlie's museum research continued at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, where he learned how he and his family had evolved into the most perfect and intelligent creatures on earth.
Charlie was called away from his research to advise the president at the White House on how to proceed on the proposed "Clam Shell Tax".
Charlie's lobbying skills were required at the Congress on Capitol Hill to put those silly politicians right on the "Clam Shell Tax", now to be replaced by the "Oyster Shell Tax", which we feel is much fairer and more sensible.
Charlie shares many of his passions of Thomas Jefferson, especially botany and architecture (especially clam shell architecture!).  So here he is at Jefferson's house, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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