Payson's Flat Stanley comes home from the Cayman Islands!

After much fun and many adventures, Payson's second Flat Stanley has arrived in Gorham! Many thanks to Aunt Alicia!

Ryan's Flat Stanley Visits Ontario, Canada!

Ryan's Flat Stanley had a fabulous visit with Ryan's relative, Marlyn Brownrigg!  She lives in Canada, which is the country north of the United States.  Ontario is one of 10 provinces and three territories that make up Canada.  

Oakville is approximately 40 miles west of Toronto, Ontario, and borders Lake Ontario.  The Niagara Falls, NY border is one hour away.  Oakville has a population of 187,300 people.

Oakville was founded in 1857 by Colonel William Chisholm, and enterprising merchant and shipbuilder, who built Erchless Estate overlooking his new harbor and Lake Ontario.  Today, visitors can still enjoy that magnificent view and explore the beautiful buildings, grounds and gardens with guided tours offered by the Oakville Museum.  Oakville is home to many businesses but two of their most well known are Tim Horton's and the Weather Network.  

 

This is in front of the director's controls at the weather network.  The Weather network is like the Weather Channel from the United States.  The Weather Network broadcasts local areas and it is on TV 24 hours a day!

 

 

 

 

Flat Stanley in front of the blue screen at the Weather network.  In the background you can see the CN tower in Toronto, Ontario!

Flat Stanley with the control panel at the Weather Network.

Flat Stanley enjoying some hot chocolate at Tim Horton's head office in Canada!  Tim Horton's has more than 4,500 restaurants!  This includes 3, 630 in Canada, 866 in the United States and 50 in the Persian Gulf area.

Flat Stanley at Bronte Harbor, which feeds into Lake Ontario. He had a great trip!

 

Lindy's Flat Stanley in Florida!

Lindy's Flat Stanley just spent some time in sunny Florida!  He had lots of fun with Lindy's cousin Annika.  He got to go all over the state!  Click on Fun Florida below to find out some travel ideas about Florida!

Fun Florida! 

Samuel's Flat Stanley in Oregon!

Samuel's Flat Stanley had a visit with Christine, Aria and Peter in Oregon!  

It was cloudy and rainy the morning he was there, but by the afternoon, the sun was peeking through! Aria is only 9 months old, but she enjoyed going to the grocery store with Flat Stanley.  He had fun watching her crawl all over the house.  She might be walking soon!  She doesn't have any teeth yet, but those will be coming in any day now.  

Click here to see some fun things to do in Oregon

Samuel's Flat Stanley is now safely back in Gorham after a very busy winter.  

Danilo's Flat Stanley in Guatemala!

Danilo's Flat Stanley has had a warm and wonderful winter in Guatemala!

Flat Stanley can't wait to go back to Guatemala!

Brooklyn's Flat Stanley in Kentucky!

Brooklyn's Flat Stanley wanted to give the class some coal from Kentucky.  He found it by the railroad tracks where the train carries the coal and sent a box of it to our class!  There was an "imposter" in the box--a really heavy rock.  We could tell the difference because we learned that coal is really light!  

Flat Stanley had a lot of fun with Brooklyn's Aunt and was happy to send everyone a little bit of Kentucky!  

Flat Stanley and some Kentucky coal!

 

Chloe's Flat Stanley has been a Traveler!

Chloe's Flat Stanley has been all around the world!  He has been to:

 Mexico,

 Palm Springs, California,

Madras, Oregon,

Las Vegas, Nevada

and 

Columbia!   

Wow! Flat Stanley has had quite an adventure!

Many thanks to Rae Ellen Stillings!

Holden's Flat Stanley in Wisconsin!

Flat Stanley in New Glarus

Flat Stanley at the Mustard Museum.  Flat Stanley loved that mustard!

The Capitol Building in Madison is the tallest building in the city!

Ethan's Flat Stanley in New Jersey and Vermont!

Greetings from Ethan's Cousin Dena!  I very much enjoyed having Flat Stanley visit us!  

Did you know that New Jersey  is known as the Garden State?  There are many things to do here, including swimming, shopping and much more!  While Flat Stanley was with us, we went snowmobiling in Vermont, played outside, and went to our lake house!  We even had an Easter Egg hunt!  Flat Stanley had a great time!

New Jersey's State Flag

New Jersey's state flower is the purple violet.

New Jersey's state bird is the Eastern Goldfinch.

Ryan's Flat Stanley Relaxes and Helps Out in Virginia!

Hi! I arrived in Virginia on May 4.  It sure felt good to get out of that envelope and stretch my arms and legs.  Shortly after I arrived, we got in the car and rode out into the country to a farm.  We stayed there for several days.  I had lots of fun!  I got to help do some work. 

Look at me in this great big tree!

I helped plant some pretty flowers!

 

One day I went to the dentist.  I got to ride on Dr. Meade’s toy airplane. 

  Then Mr. Tim cleaned and checked my teeth.    No cavities!  Great job, Flat Stanley!

I got to help with the mowing.  There was a lot of mowing to do there!

Afterward I had a rest time in the hammock.

 

I helped Mr. Arnold reach the high spots.  We fixed the fan and painted the posts

on the back porch. 

Then we had peanuts for a snack.  Lots of peanuts are grown

in Virginia.  People used to grow peanuts at this farm.  Did you know peanuts

grow underground just like potatoes?

It’s strawberry picking time in Virginia.  Yummy.   I have had lots of fun in Virginia.

It has been warm and sunny here.  I am glad I wore shorts.  Did you know Virginia

is on the Atlantic Ocean?  There are mountains in Virginia too.  There is lots of

history around here.  The last battles of the Civil War 150 years ago were fought

right around this farm.  The soldiers from Maine with General Joshua Chamberlain

camped about a mile from here.  Now I am ready to come home to Maine.

Brooklyn's Flat Stanley in Illinois!

These are Brooklyn's second cousins!  From left to right is Samuel, Aronne, Carter and Tabitha (with Flat Stanley!)

Flat Stanley is on a bridge over the Illinois and Michigan canal.  A lot of barge traffic arrives in Lockport from the Great Lakes via this waterway.

Flat Stanley going to visit an Illinois museum in Lockport, Illinois.

Flat Stanley at the entrance to the community in the suburbs that Brooklyn's second cousins live.  Flat Stanley is having a great time!

Brooklyn's Flat Stanley in Chicago, Illinois!

Flat Stanley and Aunt Glenis at the Shed Aquarium.  It might be the largest in the U.S!  Also note the height of the Willis Tower compared to the other buildings in Chicago! 

Flat Stanley and Aunt Glenis in front of the Chicago skyline across Lake Michigan!

Flat Stanley and Aunt Glenis in front of the Navy Pier and Lake Michigan.

Flat Stanley and Aunt Glenis at the Adler Planetarium, where they can see and also display unlimited scenes of the night skies of planet earth. Flat Stanley is having tons of fun!

Brooklyn's Flat Stanley in Chicago!

Flat Stanley has been having a great time with Brooklyn's great aunt and uncle, George and Glenis Orlowski, in Chicago, Illinois!

Flat Stanley at Soldier Field!

Flat Stanley and Uncle George at Soldier Field where the Chicago Bears play all their home games.

Flat Stanley and Uncle George at the Field Museum!

Flat Stanley and Aunt Glenis in front of the skyline of Chicago showing the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) to the left.

Brooklyn's Flat Stanley in Alaska!

Ice fishing in Westbeaver, Alaska.  This is Mike drilling the hole to fish in.  The ice is 32 inches thick!!  That's almost 3 feet deep!

This is the hole all drilled!

Flat Stanley wanted to tasted these little shrimp, but they are bait to use on the fishing trap!

This is a rainbow trout caught while ice fishing in West Beaver, Alaska.

Flat Stanley is standing right on the fish trap!  Be careful, Stanley!  Stanley and friends set 4 traps!

Flat Stanley is enjoying Hatcher Pass in the background.  What a pretty picture!

Stanley's ice fishing traps and a super sunset!

Hatcher Pass, Alaska.  This is active all summer AND winter! 

A gold mine on Hatcher Pass! Independence Mine State Historical Park is in the Pass.  The mine is the buildings in the background.  Maybe Flat Stanley will find some gold!

The valley is the town of Wasilla, where they Iditaput is located!

Flat Stanley enjoying Little Susitina River State Park!

Little Susitina River.  The table behind Flat Stanley is for fileting the large salmon they catch!

Flat Stanley at the Iditarod Trail in April.  This trail is part of the big dog sled race!

Flat Stanley enjoying some mini-golf!

Flat Stanley hanging out on the outdoor decor at the Iditaputt Mini golf in Wasilla, Alaska!

Flat Stanley at Hole #1 playing mini golf!  Good luck, Stanley!

Flat Stanley with the Alaska state flag at Iditaputt in Wasilla.

Flat Stanley on a new bike at Iditaputt.

Flat Stanley at the last hole of mini golf.  Very pretty!

Brooklyn's Aunt Sue painted the moose sign to use at different events.  Aunt Sue is very talented! 

Brooklyn's Aunt Sue, Mike and Flat Stanley at Sportsman's Warehouse in Wasilla, Alaska!

Flat Stanley all dressed up for the trip to Sportsman's Warehouse!  Nice hat, Stanley!

Flat Stanley with a BIG rainbow trout.  This is the type of fish we caught when we went ice fishing!

Flat Stanley with a big BISON!

Flat Stanley spending some time with a Grizzly Bear!

Flat Stanley cuddling up with a Musk Ox! 

Flat Stanley says, "Meow," to the mountain cat!