Flat Stanley

Flat Stanley's Journal

Flat Stanley Lambchop also accompanied us to Austria. Flat Stanley is a character in a children's book by Jeff Brown. He arrived at our home in Philadelphia, courtesy of our older daughter Jessica and her friend Heather, a second grade teacher in Bar Harbor, Maine. We composed a journal for Flat Stanley chronicling his travels. I've included some excerpts along with pictures of Stanley.

April 14, 2005 Today was spent traveling. First we traveled from Philadelphia to Frankfurt. Here’s a picture of me standing in Frankfurt Airport. This is a really big airport in Germany! Travelers come from all over the world. We are taking another plane from here to Salzburg, Austria now.

April 15, 2005 We finally reached Austria. Everyone here speaks German. Most people can also speak English. People in Europe are really smart! Here is a picture of me in front of the Zimmer-Frei (bed and breakfast) where we are staying. The room is located at 70 Moosstrasse. The weather is beautiful here. It is about 65º but there is still snow on the top of the mountains. From the room, you can see the Untersberg mountain.

Rachael is taking us into town by bus. The people of Salzburg often ride buses, walk or ride bikes. The buses are very nice and are almost always on time. In Salzburg, you can take your dog with you on the buses. You also see people riding their bike with their dog running along with them, on a leash of course.

We finally reach the center of town. I think that Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella lived here once. There are castles, beautiful churches and mountains. Here is a picture of Salzburg and the Castle. A movie, the “Sound of Music” was filmed here. This is a movie about a family of children during the war. We went to visit the Dom zu Salzburg. This is a cathedral or church. Today they are preparing for a children’s celebration. Two women are carrying a group of children just like me! They are flat too! Here is a picture of me and my new friends. I bet you didn’t know that there were flat children in Austria too!

Children's Mass at the Cathedral Stanley and New Friends The Castle on Monschberg

April 16, 2005 We rode up to the top of the Untersberg in a cable car. It was really scary – we were going so high! We saw some vultures below us that were very big. Some of the people on the cable car have skis and are planning on skiing down the mountain. Here is a picture of Rachael and me on the top of the mountain. From the mountain, we take the bus into town to see some more of the sites.

We went to the shopping district. This is on a street called Getreidegasse. A little hard to pronounce, without some practice! There are many stores. Some of them are also found in the United States (McDonalds) while others are little souvenir shops that sell Austian souvenirs

April 18 Today we are going to have lunch at Rachael’s school. Here is a picture of me in front of Salzburg College and with Rachael and some of her classmates. I’m going to come back and go to school here when I get big! You can learn to play music and you visit different places and learn all about them.

Now we are going to the Hohensalzburg Fortress. This Castle was built around 1077 – it is almost a thousand years old! The fortress is high up on the hill. You can see it in the postcard from Salzburg.

Here I am in the Armory with the suits of armor. They even have a marionette theater that puts on shows for children. The view from the castle is beautiful.

August 19 This is our last day. We went to the Mozart Museum. Mozart wrote beautiful music and lived in Salzburg. We took a picture of Mozart and me. And here is a picture of me with a knight in armor. We went shopping along the streets of Salzburg. I'm going to miss Salzburg but I think I'm ready to go home and see Marina.

Flat Stanley and Flat Mozart Stanley on the Way to Munich Stanley and A Knight in Armor

A Trip To Austria

Flat Stanley's Journal