Brianna's Flat Stanley in Georgia

Hi Brianna,

 

    Thank you for allowing Flat Stanley to visit us here in Clarkston, GA for a few days. We were very busy and had lots of fun. 

 

Clarkston, GA located in the Southeast

State bird --- Brown Thrasher

State flower --- Cherokee Rose

Famous for birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr and 39th President James E (Jimmy) Carter

Famous and Fun places to visit  --- MLK Center, Jimmy Carter Center, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta Aquarium and Six Flags over Georgia

Our weather is moderate

State nickname  --- Peach State

 

Aunt Marva and Uncle Charles

 

Flat Stanley at MLK's  tomb

 

 

Ryan's Great Grandma treated Alejandra's Flat Stanley to a wonderful visit

Island Beach

Going Fishing

By the pool

Climbing in the mangroves at the Anna Maria Island

Linda's Flat Stanley Visited Ohio and the Dominican Republic!

Here is Stanley!  He traveled to be with Rich and Laura in Ohio!  As luck would have it, they were headed out on vacation to the Dominican Republic and he could go along!

Stanley traveled in the mail to Canton, Ohio!

 

 

Here is Stanley in Canton, Ohio at Rich and Laura’s house. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had lots of fun. Canton is famous for being the home of the football hall of fame. Stanley didn’t stay in Canton very long because we were all going on vacation!

 

 

 

We went to city of Cleveland to spend the night because we were going to get up very early the next day to fly to the Dominican Republic. 

 

 

 

We stopped for dinner at a famous restaurant called “Melt” that servers nothing but different kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches . It’s been on TV a bunch of times and is very good. 

 

The menu was neat and the sandwich was really big. Stanley ate the whole thing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We spent the night in a hotel at the airport so we could make sure we were up really early and wouldn’t miss our flight. Stanley liked the bed because it was very fluffy and comfortable.  

 

 

 

We went to the airport at 4 in the morning. It was really early but everyone was excited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We flew on the plane for a long time. We traveled over 1600 miles through the air. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley liked the airplane. He read all the safety information to make sure we were safe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley liked looking out the window at beautiful ocean and island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We landed in the city of Puerto Plata where we went to our resort and had all kinds of fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We played on the beach and in the ocean. 

 

 

We relaxed in the sun.

 

 

 

 

We crawled around in the jungle and looked at all the plants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We ate lots of good food at all different kinds of places.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We visited fort San Felipe. It was built all the way back in 1540.

 

Stanley thought the great big old cannons at the fort were really neat.

 

 

 

 

 

We rode a cable car up over 2600 feet to the top of the Isabel de Torres mountain. It was really high up and you could see the whole city all the way to the ocean. 

 

 

 

 

 

It  was very beautiful up there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a statue of General Juan Pablo Duarte. He is one of the founding fathers of the city of Puerto Plata. 

 

He was born almost 200 years ago

 (see Stanley in the left photo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here Stanley is checking out a picture of General Duarte. 

We went to the Amber museum. Amber is tree sap that got trapped underground during the time of the dinosaurs and it turned into stone.  You can see things like bugs and leaves that were trapped in the sap before it turned to stone. It’s very pretty.

  

 

One day we after playing at the beach we came back to our room to find that the house keeper had folded our towel into the shape of a swan. Stanley thought it was very cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally after all kinds of fun, we had to go the airport and head home. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley did find a little friend to come home with him. This little guy is carved out of petrified wood. That is wood that is so old that it has turned into stone. Stanley though you might like him.  

 

 

 

Thank you very much for letting Stanley go on vacation with us. He was lots of fun to have a long.

 

 

Dylan's Flat Stanley Enjoyed Las Vegas

Stan -   Hey Dude, thanks for coming to Las Vegas, Nevada, and spending March 8th with me. I travel a lot, and was in Las Vegas for a convention with the technology company “IBM,” and it was great having your company.  

 Here’s  a picture I took of you outside our hotel, The Luxor. Cool place to spend the night - - it looks like a Pyramid from Egypt! Las Vegas is famous for its unique hotels.

This was inside our Pyramid! The hotel had made stuff look real old, like from the days of the Pharaohs.

 

And even though you snored a lot in our room, I really enjoyed you spending the night with me.

In Las Vegas, they have very many tall glass buildings. And most all of them are for hotel rooms for the millions of people that fly to Vegas to have a good time on a vacation or convention. 

To advertise and promote travel to Las Vegas, you see a lot of “shows” like the one for “Elvis” over my left shoulder in the picture above. Since the days of Elvis Pressley, many singers and comedians have gotten on the stages in Las Vegas to lure visitors to hotels. 

 

But the biggest business in Las Vegas is “Gambling”; and here’s a picture of you outside a casino that had slot machines. Sorry, you were not 18 years old so they made us stay outside!

 

 

 

Here’s you outside some famous hotels and casinos in Las Vegas that look like places in other parts of the world, and in other time periods. 

 

Caesar’s Palace, New York City and a castle from medieval times… you were so silly outside these buildings and I enjoyed taking pictures of you with my mobile phone.

So when you visited with me, it was like we took an entire trip around the world just by walking a couple of miles down The Strip. 

I took these pictures of you outside the hotel called “Paris.”  Here you see you jumping in the middle of the road and also see the Eiffel Tower. 

 




Here is the “arc de triomphe” replica. In English that means Arch of Triumph; and that was a famous arch that World War II soldiers would march under after the good guys won WWII.

 

 

Here are some more famous hotels that I took your picture outside. The castle one is called “Excalibur” and has lots of medieval knight stuff inside. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The one with the Statue of Liberty replica is called “New York New York.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And the one here is very tall and is called “Caesar’s Palace.”

We walked inside the lobby of the Caesar’s Palace hotel and saw real fancy-looking statues and shiny marble floors. All those hotels are made to look so fancy! 

 

 

 

Look at that motorcycle coming out of the Harley Davidson store that was on The Strip!

 

The Bellagio hotel was probably the fanciest of them all!  

 

 

 

They had put a big lake in front of the hotel that had a neat water show every 20 minutes. People would stop in front of the hotel and look in amazement!

 

 

And here you were at the MGM Grand hotel with that golden lion – the one just like you see on famous movies! 

 

 

The MGM is where you see TV shows like the American Country Movies awards.

 

And we finished up your trip at the MGM Grand watching the rock band Maroon 5, with Adam Levine! 

 

 

That was fun, and by the time you left, I was so very tired.

Let’s do it again some time soon! 

 

When you return to school, tell Dylan that his cousin Sammy Rabon says hello.