Our niece Jessie sent Flat Stanley to visit us. Flat Stanley is part of a Social Studies project where school children send Flat Stanley to friends and relatives in other locations so that they can learn about many different places.
We had to show Flat Stanley around town and then send him (and his journal and some photos) back to Jessie's elementary school. Instead of heading to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building, we decided to give Stanley a tour of the nitty-gritty street life of our Chinatown neighborhood.
We started on the roof to get the lay of the land.
We went to look at porcelain Boddhas.
We saw a lot of dried fish...
and fresh fish.
We considered letting Stanley get acupuncture.
But decided to eat lunch in Little Italy instead.
Stanley wanted to ride a scooter.
He also wanted to ride the subway.
We watched some people play soccer.
Then walked past graffitied streets to get back home. What a day!
Sheesh! That's enough to make a boy wish to be 3-D!
Posted by: jenn | April 29, 2009 at 10:47 PM
It looks like Stanley had a great time!
Posted by: Claudine | April 29, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Stanley had a great time but we were pretty stressed out - trying to make paper-thin Stanley hold still on a windy afternoon! He took off on us a couple of times.
Posted by: kara | April 30, 2009 at 12:51 AM