Welcome to Stanley's Blog!

Hello! I'm Auntie Erin, and I'm a librarian at a middle school in Oregon. Rachel sent her Flat Stanley to me, and I thought it might be fun to keep the class updated about Stanley's adventures here in Oregon through a blog. A blog, in case you're not sure what that means, is just an online diary. People write blogs about all sorts of topics. I have another blog about books, and other people have them about cooking, art, animals, politics, fashion, everything under the sun. Some people even blog about blogging! Most blogs have periodic entries, but some people blog every day. I'll probably write about once a week. If you have any questions or comments, you can click the comments button. I hope you learn a lot about Oregon and enjoy Stanley's journey through this blog.

First I'll tell you a little bit about Oregon, and then you can see some pictures of Stanley's adventures so far.

Oregon is on the Pacific Ocean, just south of Washington state and just north of California. Oregon also borders two other states, Idaho and Nevada. Oregon is a state with lots of incredible natural beauty. We have many mountains here, and Mt. Hood is the tallest of them at nearly 11,000 feet high. Multnomah Falls is near Portland and is the second tallest year-round waterfall in the country. Our one national park is Crater Lake National Park. Crater Lake is the United State's deepest lake and the 7th deepest in the world! I think it's surely the bluest lake, too! Since Oregon's so beautiful, tourism is one of our main industries.

Other industries in Oregon include high tech, like Intel and others, timber processing, and agriculture and seafood. Nike's world headquarters are here in Oregon, too. Oregon leads the nation in the production of Christmas trees! We'll have to take Stanley to a Christmas tree farm to check that out this year!

Oregon became a state on Valentine's Day in 1859. We're the only state with a state nut, the hazelnut. And we're the only state that has a flag with something different on each side!

Learn more about Oregon by going to this Internet Public Library website(approved by this school librarian as safe and reliable). If you learn something new and leave me a comment about it, you'll get your name in my next entry. Be sure you only leave your first name, to make sure we're safe.

And now for Stanley's adventures so far...

Last weekend Stanley met his cousin Willie who is six months old.



This weekend Stanley went bowling. He had a little trouble with lifting that heavy ball, so his new friend Kate graciously helped him.



His friend Olivia let Stanley ride her Cheetah. It was kind of dangerous, but Stanley held on really tightly...oh wait, it looks like he didn't hang on at all. That crazy Stanley!



Stanley has decided after a visit to Ben and Jerry's that he LOVES ice cream! Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough was his favorite. What's yours?



We'll be back next week, so check back for more updates on Stanley's adventures. He's going on an airplane ride this weekend, so that should be pretty fun!

I know there are other Stanleys from Rachel's class all around the country, too,so if you'd like YOUR Stanley's adventures to be posted here, leave me a comment and we'll get his adventures from other places added to this blog!