Shamu & You Family Walk is a fund-raiser put on by Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego at SeaWorld.  All donations raised will benefit Rady  Children's Hospital.  The BRICK-Brain Research In Cancer Kids team has designated the Brain Tumor Research fund to receive all of its team member donations.

Last year's walk was fabulous.  We strolled through SeaWorld and saw many animals out with their handlers.  The main part of the walk is a one mile loop through SeaWorld bringing you back to the Start/Finish line.  For those who wish, you can continue walking along Mission Bay for 3 more miles - finishing back at the Start/Finish line.  The entire 4 miles is wheelchair/stroller friendly.  At the Start/Finish line after the walk there are many booths with free food and give-aways.  It's a fun morning.

How you can get involved
We are encouraging everyone to register as a walker on the team.  100% of the registration fees go to the Brain Tumor Research fund.  If you can't attend the event, then you can sign up as a "virtual walker".  All registered walkers can then go out and get sponsors - thus increasing the total raised for the team and Brain Tumor Research.  The challenge is for each walker to ask 10 people to sponsor them at $10 each.  There are prizes to be earned for those who raise certain dollar amounts.

If you would like to support our team, but do not want to register as a walker, then you can still sponsor someone else who is a walker on the team.  - Instructions below.

BRICK has pledged to raise $30,000 over the next five years and recruiting walkers and sponsors for our team is one of our funding sources.  If you want to sponsor a walker and support BRICK's goal, then any member of the Fountain family would be happy to receive your donation.  Cecillia, Jason, and Les Fountain each have a goal to raise $500 to earn the SeaWorld Silver Passport prizes.  

Support a walker on our team
Click the button below and the BRICK team website will open (http://shamuandyouwalk.kintera.org/brickteam).  To join our team, click "Join Our Team" link below the heading and go through the steps to register.  Each participant needs to register (and pay) separately.  To support a walker on the BRICK team, you can select a name from the list of team members and their Personal Fundraising Page will come up with a place to enter your donation.  During the process you can choose to display your name and/or amount or remain anonymous on the website display.  

Thank You for supporting BRICK and our efforts to raise money for Brain Tumor Research at Rady Children's.

Monday 4/28/03 - Operation
Monday morning Les was still sleeping when they came to transfer him to the Operating Room. It went rather smoothly. Grandma Sue arrived to walk down the hall with them to the Warren Surgical Suites at Children’s Hospital. They waited for about 25 minutes in the waiting area and had a chance to talk to the surgeon prior to surgery. He was very professional and arrived in a suit. It was only after the surgery that they saw him in his scrubs. 

Cillia and Jason each had their own way of passing the 4-5 hours during the surgery. Jason chose to stay