The Adventures of Flat Stanley

Not too long ago I received a special package in the mail from a young student named Rose.  Rose is at the Learning Center and has been reading the story of Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.  Well can you believe to my great surprise, that special package that I received had Flat Stanley himself!  Along with Flat Stanley came a note from Rose asking if I could take Flat Stanley with me on some adventures.  Well, being the adventurous type, that's exactly what I did!

Our first stop was at the airport in San Diego, where we checked in, passed security and then went to our gate to wait for our flight.

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As we boarded the plane, several friendly crew members from Southwest airlines recognized Flat Stanley!  WOW, I had no idea he was such a big celebrity.  Well these friendly crew members invited Flat Stanley to meet the Pilot of a departing plane right up in the cockpit!  Can you believe it?  I sure couldn't.  It was quite a treat for both Flat Stanley and I.

Later on we boarded our flight and were greeted by the wonderful flight crew from Southwest Airlines to Sacramento, and then they introduced us to our Pilot and Co-Pilot who were super cool as well.  They even modeled for the camera!

After we took our seats, we took a look on the map to see where in California, Sacramento was.

When we finally got to Sacramento, we went straight to the car rental counter at Enterprise.

Upon arriving at our hotel room, we unloaded our camera equipment and set up the laptop so that we could blog about all of the days big events!

When we woke up the next day, we got ready to go to UC Merced for a big graduation, and this was a special graduation.  The President's wife, First Lady Michelle Obama was scheduled to show up!  Boy were we excited!  It was like a circus when we got there!  There were graduating students, teachers, police, Military, and Secret Service agents everywhere.  We had to go through metal detectors and everything.  Fortunately Stanley had no metal in him.

Stanley made a lot of friends while he was there!  He met video camera operators, UC Merced Bobcat football players, Secret Service agents and the entire crew that helped put on this event!

And he was given access to practically everywhere!

Later,  on the plane home we ran into the UCSD Women's Crew team!  They had just come back from a competition and had won bronze and silver medals.  Go Tritons!  The ladies immediately recognized Flat Stanley and wanted to take a picture with him, and everybody was all smiles!  They even put one of their medals on his neck!  It was great!

Flat Stanley and I are both so excited because this is just the beginning of many more adventures.  I can't wait to see what the rest of our adventures have in store for us!  

I will post more later....