Flat Stanley

We recently had a visit from Flat Stanley. He had come all the way from Ft Thomas, Kentucky. I'm not sure how long Flat Stanley has been traveling for, but he is nearly ready to return home. Before he came to see us he was in North Bay, Ontario and I have now sent him off to Lazo, British Columbia. Unfortunately for Stanley, the weather was not very nice during his visit. It was cold and windy, not very fun for exploring. We tried to make the best of it.

 First we took Stanley to see T-Rex at the Milk River Visitor's Center. Stanley felt pretty tiny standing underneath that gigantic dinosaur.

After climbing on T-Rex, Stanley climbed around on the fake Hoodoos at the Visitor's Center. We would have liked to take Stanley down to Writing On Stone Provincial Park, but as it has already been said, it was too cold and windy. If only Stanley had come for a visit in the summer, what fun we would have had hoping around from Hoodoo to Hoodoo. We would have taken him to see the ancient First Nations petroglyphs (carvings) & pictographs (paintings).

When we were done playing here we decided that we would show Stanley how our town got its name. Did you know that the Milk River flows all the way to the Gulf of Mexico? And if you didn't already know, the Milk River gets its name because it always looks muddy or "milky" because of the sandy sediment.

Stanley on the nice clean white van.

After all this fun was had, it seemed like a good time to go wash our very muddy van at the local car wash. Everything is mostly dried up...for now, and the van was so dirty that it was completely the colour of dried mud. Stanley was such a great help, cheering me on along with the girls in the safety of the van. (we would hate for Stanley to get wet and fall to pieces).

We even tried to put Stanley to work delivering flyers with us...but the paper bag was a bit too big for him to carry, so he had to just ride along instead.

All in all, even though the weather was a bit chilly, I think that Stanley had a great time and he will return to Ft Thomas with stories of distant places to share with the children of the second grade class that sent him out on his adventures.