Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Flat Stanley

We had a visitor this week. So far, he has been the easiest visitor we have had yet. He came from Arizona on the dime of our great friends the Abrahams. It was nice of them to let us have him for a few days. Mike and Dayna Abraham were such great friends of ours in Arizona and their son, Colin created Flat Stanley. The Abrahams were supposed to come visit us this past March, but it didn't quite work out. Instead, they sent Flat Stanley and we showed Stanley around Kathmandu. We hope he goes back and tells them ALL about it.

Here are some things he did during his short visit with us:

He hung out with Ganesh for good luck.

He high fived Buddha at the Monkey Temple.
He assisted a cow as the cow crossed the highway.
He bought some fruit and vegetables at the side of the road.
He got mixed up in some crazy stuff. (I hope Mike and Dayna don't find out).

He confused this lady as she was staring out of the bus just before she threw up.
He checked out some of the authentic Nepali windows.
He hung out with all the gods.
He had a few nightmares.
He checked out the Bagmati River village and may have caught the swine flu (sorry, guys!)

He wanted to see a football game but then realized the Nepali team stinks and didn't quite make it into the payoffs.
He wanted to ride in a tuk tuk but there wasn't enough electricity to keep the thing going.
He flirted with my daughter (which I think she liked).

Our time was short, but fun. I hope Colin likes the packet that is on its way back to AZ. We wish it was the Abrahams and not just Flat Stanley, but maybe his stories will make them burn with desire to visit next year! Thanks for the fun!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

You guys ROCK! Colin is going to be thrilled to see your post when he gets home from school today! Now more than ever are we regretting not making it over to see you. We've got to work on that and will have to listen to Flat Stanley's stories to get us by. (Although it seems he'll have to edit some of them around the kids!)

Thanks so much for taking the time to show him around - I'm sure he loved it.

You're the best! Dayna

Boquinha said...

Man, we took our Flat Stanley to Chocolate World . . .

Jenibelle said...

So cute~~~I'm going to send a picture of me and you can make a flat Jeni and put me in all the pictures. It will be almost be like going on an exotic vacation. Which, truthfully, I am afraid to do!

Boquinha said...

Wait. What? You didn't take Flat Stanley to Chitwan??

gwadzilla said...

Flat Stanley is an International Hero!