Dear Nate,
Thank you
for sharing Flat Stanley with us. We
hope he had fun in Colorado. Flat Stanley
read our newspaper, The Daily Sentinel, to learn about skiing, and the
Colorado National Monument. He was able
to see the Monument from our front yard.
One day, he
went bowling with me. Later that
evening, he went to a great band concert with our grandsons at the Grand
Junction High School.
Flat
Stanley took a trip with us across the Rocky Mountains to Denver, the capital
of Colorado. He rode through the
Eisenhower Tunnel. Then he drove through
a spring snowstorm. He went shopping, to
restaurants, and doctor’s office and a hospital.
Grand
Junction is in the western part of Colorado.
See if you can find it on the map I sent. We have several nice city parks. Main Street downtown is famous for Art on the
Corner. Colorado Mesa University is also
in Grand Junction. We also have the Grand
Junction Rockies baseball team.
Our area is
known for its delicious produce. We have
many orchards of apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, and plums. There are also many grape vineyards and at
least 15 wineries near here.
Colorado is
a beautiful state. We have about 300
sunny days a year. Everyone enjoys lots
of outdoor activities – hiking, mountain biking, rafting, skiing, hunting and
fishing. Tourism is one of the major
industries in the state as well as oil and gas drilling, and coal mining. The Denver Broncos are our professional
football team. They played in the Super Bowl this winter, but unfortunately
they did not win.
Good luck
to you and your classmates with your Flat Stanley project. What fun to see where all of them have
traveled. You are lucky to have a nice
teacher like Miss Hilldrup. We have
known her since she was not much older than you are now. She has visited us in Colorado. Ask her about her trip.
We hope
Flat Stanley has a safe trip home.
Sincerely,
Mrs.
Fielder
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