tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84814476184545129812024-03-05T15:49:23.423-08:00Teddy's TravelsA blog detailing the travels of the SATW Teddy BearElaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-48965617056677137232020-04-01T16:30:00.000-07:002020-04-01T16:33:16.931-07:00Fuzzy Goes Cajun<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bon jour, kids,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> That's French for "good day." I just recently visited Louisiana. In a small part of Louisiana, some people still speak a kind of French. Here's why.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> French people settled at the mouth of the Mississippi River and founded the city of New Orleans. This was in the early 1700s when there was no United States. (There were English colonies on the east coast of the country but other countries claimed different parts of the continent.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There were also French people who settled in the northeast -- in what would become Canada. Then the French and the English had a war over who would claim the territory. The English won and they kicked the French out of their homes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They had called their area Acadia and they were called Acadians. Many of them knew that there were French people in the south -- in what is now Louisiana. So they moved to that area. Now we call those people Cajuns -- an easier way of pronouncing Acadians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I learned all this when I visited a historic park called Vermilionville. You can go there and learn about how the Cajuns lived, what they ate, what their houses looked like -- lots of things!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Here are some of the things I saw:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is La Maison Broussard. Maison means house in French. It is the oldest house in the village. It was built in 1790 - that's over 200 years ago. It was moved here from its original location.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This little building was built in the 1830s and was used as the schoolhouse for the children of the plantation owner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This little church looks like the kind of churches people in the area went to in the late 1700s. There was only one kind of church -- everyone was Catholic. Now, of course, there are all kinds of churches. Louisiana is not divided into counties like Oklahoma and other states. They have parishes -- these were originally church divisions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I got to ride across this little bayou (a slow creek or river or, sometimes, just a marshy lake). It was like a big raft. Men pulled it across the water by pulling on heavy ropes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I liked listening to Cajun music. This man is playing an accordion. One of his friends played the guitar and another played the violin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I got to taste some gumbo. It's sort of a soup or stew made from broth, chicken, sausage, peppers, onion, celery and green peppers. It was really good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Vermilionville was a very nice place. It is built on the edge of Bayou Vermilion. I thought this was a pretty picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span>Elaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-35175553031305521282020-03-02T21:43:00.000-08:002020-03-02T21:43:21.888-08:00Fuzzy Visits His Cousin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Kids,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It's almost time for spring break and I want to show you one of my favorite things to do in Oklahoma City. Did you know we have one of the best zoos in the country?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I made a special trip to the zoo a few weeks ago and the zoo people announced that one of the Indian rhinoceroses is going to have a baby next fall. They are very excited because Indian rhinos are rare and they are trying to keep the species from disappearing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The rhinos were taking a nap when I was there. It was also a very cold day so we made a short visit. Spring break will be warmer -- the perfect time to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is a komodo dragon. It isn't really a dragon -- it's a lizard. But it is so big if it were standing up straight, balancing on the tip of its tail, it would be taller than your classroom door. It's also mean. Its bite is poisonous. It's big enough and strong enough to kill a cow for dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> When it gets warm enough, the lorikeet exhibit opens. Lorikeets are small parrots from Australia. They eat insects, berries and soft fruits and they like nectar. That's a sugary liquid. You can buy a small cup of nectar and feed them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The zoo has lots of different areas. One of my favorite is Oklahoma Trails. I like it because all the animals can be found in Oklahoma. And I like it because there is a statue of a bear in front of the exhibit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is a cougar. It is very unusual to see a cougar in the wild. They are very secretive and are more likely to hunt in the late afternoon or after dark. This animal is called by a number of names -- cougar, mountain lion, puma, panther, painter or catamount. They are not as large as African lions or tigers but they are much bigger than their house cat cousins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> You'll only find alligators in the very tip of southeast Oklahoma. I have seen alligator egg shells there, but fortunately I didn't see a real alligator when I was there. I think I would have looked like a nice snack for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And here is my cousin -- a black bear. Did you know black bears can be black, brown, even blond? Maybe most of them are black. They live in the woods in eastern Oklahoma. These are just a few of the animals you can see at the zoo. There are also elephants, giraffes, bison, giant turtles, fish, snakes and even more. I love to go to the zoo. I hope you get to go on your spring break. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your friend,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We had a snow day in Oklahoma today! It looks really pretty but it's really cold. Miss Elaine and I stayed in the house. I know people in other parts of the country are more used to snow and cold weather. Here are some of the things they do when it gets cold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> A couple of years ago, Miss Elaine and one of my cousins went to Minnesota. He got to ride in a dog sled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> He said it was a lot of fun. The dogs were really fast. Once when they went around a corner, the sled tipped over and Miss Elaine and Teddy got dumped into the snow. It didn't hurt but it was cold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There are lots of lakes in Minnesota and when they freeze, people go fishing through the ice. Sometime they have contests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The ice is so thick they can drive trucks on them. Every fisherman cuts a little hole in the ice. This nice man visited with Teddy. He had a little electric heater. And he's dressed very warmly. Can you see his little fishing pole? He has it on a little orange stand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> People there also like to ride snow mobiles. Here's Miss Elaine on one. They rode up and down hills and through trees and even across a lake. It was fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Another year she took my cousin Vanilla to Quebec. They have a big carnival there every winter. There are lots of things to do. There are even buildings made of ice like this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And a hockey rink for kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are horse and sleigh races.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And they drag big rubber rafts to the top of a hill, then slide down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They carve sculptures out of ice. Here is Vanilla with a sculpture of a mother and baby dinosaur.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She liked making maple popsicles. You dig a little hole in the snow and pour maple syrup in it. Then you stick a popsicle stick in the syrup. When it gets really cold, it is hard like a popsicle. I like maple syrup on pancakes but this sounds good, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I think a lot of these things would be fun. But it was nice staying inside and being warm and reading books. I hope you had a good day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fuzzy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Kids,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Can you see me in the picture above? Look at the bottom in the middle. I'm sitting in front of a really big picture of a very important historical figure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> His name was Genghis Khan (Ching-us or Ging-us Kahn)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and many, many years ago he ruled over a huge part of the world. He was born in the place we now call Mongolia. It's far away from here. Miss Elaine took me to an exhibition about Genghis Khan and Mongolia. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Genghis had a great army. They were pretty scary. This is what his soldiers looked like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There are still many Mongolians who live that way -- following their herds from feeding areas to other feeding areas. This is what the inside of their tents look like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Other Mongolians live in cities like ours. I got to meet some people from Ulan Bator, the largest city in the country -- and the capital city. This lady's name is Solongo Gankhuyag. I don't even know how to say it! She is a talented musician and she was very nice to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Their music doesn't sound like the music we listen to but it's very popular in Mongolia. Listen carefully to the man. When he starts singing, his voice is low and growl-y. Later he sings in a higher voice. The first part is called throat singing. It is very difficult to do. The second part is his normal voice. I loved watching Solongo play the yatga -- her hands are so pretty. I couldn't do that with my paws.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Have you seen this building? It's the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. Miss Elaine and I visited recently because she is working on a story about Oklahoma Indians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Did you know there are members of 39 different Indian tribes living in Oklahoma? Here's a map that shows all the different parts of the United States that they came from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There have been Native Americans living in Oklahoma for thousands of years. At the History Center we saw sandals and a moccasin that are very old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The two flat things on the top shelf were sandals maybe made 10,000 years ago! On the bottom is a newer sandal, about 6,000 years old. The lumpy one is a moccasin made from buffalo hide. It's the newest one -- perhaps less than 1000 years old.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Many native tribes traveled around following the buffalo others settled more permanently and farmed. There were several tribes in Oklahoma who lived here most of the time. Many other tribes came through the area for hunting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> So how did all those other tribes get here? When European explorers discovered this country, they went back to Europe and told stories about what an amazing land this was. Some people decided they wanted to move to this new land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The country started to get a little crowded so pioneers began to move west. The Indians who had roamed freely got pushed out of their lands. By that time, the country had a government. The government made many of the tribes move to our part of the country. It's a long and unhappy story which you will learn in history class when you are a bit older.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The tribes had their own cultures and traditions. In the History Center you will learn about them. I'll show you some of my favorite exhibits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Did you know that different tribes lived in different kinds of houses? Some lived in tepees, but others built homes of wood, bark, clay or rushes. Here are examples of two different kinds of native houses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It's a copy of a star chart made several hundred years ago by Pawnee Indians. They were known as the star people of the plains. They mapped the sky and used the information on the movement of planets and positions of stars to help them in traveling, hunting, farming and war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I loved this dress. It was made for a little Cheyenne girl by her grandmother over 100 years ago. It is made out of deer skin and decorated with thousands of tiny beads. She must have been proud of this dress and took very good care of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I like horses, too. The Comanche Indians were famous for their horses. I don't think that saddle looks very comfortable, do you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Several European countries had explored parts of what would become the United States. They claimed ownership of the land. In 1803, President Jefferson bought a big bunch of it for the U.S. This was called the Louisiana Purchase. He sent Lewis and Clark to explore the land he had just bought. He knew they would meet Indians and gave them papers to give to the tribe's leaders saying they would be friends. Only two of these certificates are known to exist. And we have one here in Oklahoma. It was saved by Chief Big Axe's family and now, 200 years later, they gave it to the museum so we all can see it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is a long letter -- but there's so much to see in the Oklahoma History Center. And the Native American part is just one part. Miss Elaine and I were there for hours and we didn't even get to see the rest of the museum!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is a travois (say: tra-vwah). The poles are from a teepee and it was pulled by a horse. When some of the tribes moved around, they just took their tepees down and turned them into a kind of trailer. Wasn't that smart?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I hope you will get to visit this museum yourself. It's fun to see how people lived in the past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Here I am in Copenhagen, the capital of the country of Denmark. I loved this city so much, I had to write THREE posts about it! See the little figure on the rock behind me? That's the Little Mermaid. People come from all over the world to see this little statue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I took this picture from a boat. She always looks out toward the sea. You probably know her story from the Disney movie. But her story was written long ago by this man:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is a statue of Hans Christian Anderson. He wrote many stories. Maybe you know the story of the Ugly Duckling. He wrote that, too. When Miss Elaine was little, there was a movie about him. One of the best songs in that movie was "Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen." And that song is right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There is a lot of water in and around the city. One of the best ways to see things is by boat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There are many beautiful buildings in Copenhagen. Behind the yellow building, you can see the spire of Our Savior's Church. The church is over 300 years old. That's older than the United States! I think it's really cool the way the spire is twisted. You can climb to the top of the tower. I'll bet the view is really good. We didn't go up all those stairs because Miss Elaine said she would get too tired of carrying me. There are 398 stairs. I don't think she could have climbed all those stairs even without carrying me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> A lot of the old buildings in Copenhagen are painted bright colors. The buildings here are over 300 years old, too. But this area is called New Harbor. That's not very new!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I took this picture from a boat, too. Do you see the round-topped building? This is the Royal Palace where the King and Queen of Denmark live. I think they are lucky to live in Copenhagen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In my next post, I'll tell you about another castle. And in the third post, I'll show you pictures of a beautiful park right in the middle of the city.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I hope you have time to scroll down and see more of my visit to Copenhagen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your friend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fuzzy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">P.S. (Did you know that's short for "postscriptum," which is Latin for "written after. You use it when you want to add a note after you thought you were finished.) My postscript: look at the next two posts for more of my trip to Copenhagen!</span>Elaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-41205173287643647812019-10-17T16:27:00.001-07:002019-10-18T14:19:21.307-07:00Fuzzy Visits a Castle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Kids,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There are several castles in Denmark but Kronborg Castle may be one of the most well-known. The castle is hundreds of years old. It was old when Shakespeare wrote a famous play, Hamlet, about a Danish prince who lived in the castle. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you get older, you may read, or, even better, see the play. This statue of Hamlet is outside the train station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It was a long walk to the castle. We had to cross a moat. Lots of time, castle builders surrounded castles with water so invaders couldn't get close to the castle walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The castle is protected by tall walls. The castle has a big courtyard in the middle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> One of the coolest thing about our visit was that actors performed scenes from Hamlet in different parts of the castle. The first scene we saw was in the courtyard. Yorick, the court jester, came out and sang a song about the wicked king. Long ago, when there was no TV and no cell phones, kings hired entertainers -- jesters. The king did not like the song and Yorick got in trouble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I was visiting with him, but I didn't get in trouble. Remember, this is all just for fun. We got to throw wet sponges at Yorick for his punishment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Later, we listened to him tell stories to the pretend Queen and her companion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In between parts of the play, we got to look at a lot of the rooms in the castle. This was the ballroom -- where they had parties. You could have a REALLY big party in this room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The last part of the play is exciting -- and sad. Hamlet and his friend get mad at each other and have a sword fight. As you can imagine, the play does not have a happy ending.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I was glad it was just a play. I had a good day seeing Kronborg Castle. And I got to ride on a train to get back to our hotel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your friend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fuzzy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">P.S. There's more in the next post.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Elaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-8335190589228396962019-10-17T14:58:00.002-07:002019-10-18T14:19:56.685-07:00Fuzzy Goes to Denmark's Disneyland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Kids,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> No, this isn't Disneyland, it's Copenhagen's famous Tivoli Gardens. Like Disneyland, it is a beautiful place with lots of flowers and pretty buildings, rides, and entertainment. But the first Disney park is only 64 years old. Tivoli Gardens opened 176 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There are exciting rides like these and relaxing rides like boat rides. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The merry-go-round is my favorite ride. This one is two stories. Can you see the stairs in the picture?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Isn't this pretty? </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A lot of Danish people just go to the park to enjoy the flowers, to have a picnic, or eat in one of the restaurants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This pirate ship is really a restaurant. That's where we ate dinner. It was very good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We didn't see any pirates but it was still a little scary. I wasn't too sure about sitting by this skull, but they told me it wasn't real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They put on plays here. This play was a pantomime -- no talking, just acting. It was a very old kind of play from Italy. It was funny. These two characters were very clumsy. Also in the play were a beautiful girl and her boyfriend and a clown who played tricks on everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> He was very friendly. This is just one thing I like about traveling. There are nice people all over the world!</span></div>
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Elaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-70551654562916442152019-09-28T15:22:00.000-07:002019-10-17T14:59:39.488-07:00Fuzzy Visits Cherokee Country<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hi Kids,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> The building in the picture is 150 years old. It once served as the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokees are one of many Indian tribes moved to Oklahoma long ago. Today the building serves as the Cherokee National History Museum. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Exhibits here tell stories of how the Indians used to live, how and why they were moved to Oklahoma, and about their customs and crafts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Here's a picture of some special Cherokee clothing -- worn by important members of the tribe. Today Cherokees only wear special clothes at celebrations and ceremonies. Most of the time, they dress just like you, your parents and your teachers dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There are many interesting things in the museum. I liked this exhibit because kids can try to make a basket like the Cherokees can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> You can even see some school books that Cherokee children used over a hundred years ago. And you can see them up close because everyone who visits gets to borrow an iPad to show more information. Can you see the small pictures of things? They have the names written in the Cherokee language under each picture.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">All the Cherokees can speak English; many can also speak Cherokee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After we went to the history museum, we went to the Cherokee Cultural Heritage Center. They have a museum there, too. And they have two outside exhibit areas which are open during the nicer months of the year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> This is Leon Grayson holding me. He is a Cherokee who knows all about Cherokee history and customs. We are in a re-created Cherokee village like the ones Cherokees lived in in Tennessee 200 years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He showed me many of the skills the Cherokees used to hunt and live. He is very good at using a blowgun made from a hollow reed. If you look closely, you can see that his dart hit the target turkey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Of course, you know they also hunted with bows and arrows. They made the arrowheads out of rocks. They would chip out the shape by tapping a rock with another rock. It took a long time to learn to do it correctly. Learning to make arrowheads taught young Indians to be patient -- that to do something correctly often took a lot of time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A Cherokee lady named Shyla Diver showed us how she weaves belts with yarn and her fingers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After we toured the Indian Village, we went to Adams Corner. This shows what an Indian village in early day Oklahoma would have looked like. It had a school and a church and a blacksmith shop and a general store. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Many Native Americans from many tribes live in Oklahoma. It is interesting to learn about their histories and customs. I'm glad Miss Elaine took me to Tahlequah so I could learn more about the Cherokee Nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Before we left, we saw one last exhibit -- a really big one!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Cherokees are famous for weaving beautiful baskets. Two Cherokee ladies made this giant basket -- as tall as a regular ceiling. They used flat reeds (tall, thin marsh plants). They used dyed reeds to create designs on the basket. It took them a long time to make it this big. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I've been out of this world on a planet far, far away. Well, actually, I've been to Disney World but they have a whole new section called Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. It's all pretend, but it's really like being on a strange planet. In this case, the planet is called Batuu. They don't have teddy bears there -- but they do have porgs -- that's me with one of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Even the toys are strange -- here are shelves of Kowakian monkey-lizards. I can't imagine cuddling one of these!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Batuu is a very hot planet -- they have three suns. And Batuuans don't say "hello," they say "bright suns."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> A lot of work on the planet is done by robots called Droids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Maybe you have seen a Star Wars movie -- R2-D2 is a Droid. At the cantina -- a place where Batuuans go to get something to drink -- the DJ is a Droid -- R-3X.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They have different kinds of foods, too. They drink blue or green milk. Miss Elaine drank some and said it was really good. She also had a vegetable meatball and a yummy dessert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In the Star Wars story, the good guys -- the Resistance -- have been defeated by the bad guys -- the First Order. Members of the Resistance are hiding out on Batuu. Their equipment is all old and rusty and they are trying to rebuild their force to combat the First Order.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Their most important piece of equipment is the Millennium Falcon -- a space ship described as "a piece of junk."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is me by the Millennium Falcon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Some members of the First Order have come to Batuu to look for the members of the Resistance. They have an army of Storm Troopers who question the Batuuans about the Resistance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They weren't going to let me go because I am not tall enough -- but they let me ride in Miss Elaine's purse. You can see through the front of the ship -- it looks like you are really flying around buildings and over mountains and are ducking asteroids. Miss Elaine was a really bad driver and we had several crashes. Since it was just make-believe, we didn't get hurt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This was a really great trip but I'm glad I don't live on Batuu. I hope you enjoyed our visit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I hope you had a great summer. Mine was super. Miss Elaine and I went traveling. You can tell from the picture -- I went to Norway. And that's a troll holding me. If you've seen the movie Frozen, you know about trolls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We went to Norway on a ship. Here's a picture of the Captain showing us a picture of the ship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We sailed up the coast of Norway, stopping several times along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is a picture of Elsa and Anna's home from the movie. I was told that the Disney artists used Akershus Fortress as a model for the castle. When we docked in Oslo, the capital of Norway, we could see the Fortress from our ship. I didn't think it looked very much like Arendale -- not enough towers. But it was still pretty impressive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We took a bus to the Norwegian Folk Museum. One hundred and fifty old buildings from all over Norway have been brought here so people can see the way Norwegians used to live -- and dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> These girls are dressed in traditional Norwegian costumes. They sang and danced for us -- and posed for a picture with me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> These buildings are over 300 years old. Do you notice something funny about the roofs? They have grass growing on them. Today some modern buildings are going back to that tradition. The sod provides good insulation -- it keeps heat in in the winter and out in the summer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This church is called a stave church. It's over 800 years old. It's made completely of wood. Once there were over 1000 stave churches in Norway. Now there are only 28. What do you think could have happened to them?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Now churches in Norway look like churches in America. Some of them are very modern. Others, like this one in Kristiansand are more traditional. It's only 133 years old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Many parts of the Norwegian coast are very mountainous with the sea filling up valleys close to the shore. These watery inlets are called fjords -- fee-ords. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We sailed into one of the fjords and docked so we could go up into the mountains. Norway has many impressive waterfalls. How many waterfalls do you see in this picture?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Back on the ship, I found a friend. His boy was from Belgium and didn't speak English so Miss Elaine couldn't talk to him. But he liked me and so did his lion!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We had fun on the ship. We loved the music and movies and great food. And every night when we went back to our room, our beds were turned down and a piece of chocolate was on each pillow. But, most fun of all, the room stewards made animals out of the towels. Every night we had a different one. One night it was a swan. Another night it was an elephant. But the last night on the ship was the best!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Everyone was very friendly. The Captain let me come up to the bridge -- where all the ship's controls are. What a great trip! His name is Captain Sybe de Boer and he did a very good job. Piloting a ship as big as a hotel can't be easy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I'm glad I went to Norway. I can't wait to see Frozen II. I'm just glad I went when Norway wasn't frozen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you look carefully at the picture, you can find me. I'm on a rock in front of the giant deer. This sculpture is monumental -- a word used for statues that are larger than life. It was really, really big. And I was in for a really, really big treat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miss Elaine took me to Wonders of Wildlife in Springfield, Missouri. It's a combination of a museum and an aquarium -- and it's all about animals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First we went through the museum part. It's full of dioramas - full-sized animals placed in front of painted backgrounds. They really look real. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A lot of them showed scenes in national parks and animals you might see if you visited them. This first picture is shows a family of American black bears in Yosemite (Yo-SIM-uh-tee) National Park. We even have black bears in Oklahoma. Not all black bears are black. Some are brown and there are even white black bears sometimes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not all the animals in Wonders of Wildlife are stuffed. Here's a picture of me with a real black bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This bighorn sheep is pictured in Glacier National Park in Montana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Roosevelt elk live in low valleys and rain forests in Olympic National Park in Washington state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mountain lions live in one of my favorite parks -- Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Did you get to read my post about my trip to the Grand Canyon? If you scroll back through the posts, you will see it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are lots of different kinds of habitats in the museum. When we went into the part of the museum with animals who live in cold climates, the rooms got colder. I was glad I had fur! In this area we got to see gentoo penguins -- real ones -- who live in Antarctica where there is a lot of ice and snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It got warmer when we got to the Africa section. It had zebras, giraffes, even elephants. All the rooms had small video screens where we could read more about each animal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we finished looking at this part of the building, we went into the aquarium. The first area has a HUGE tank with lots and lots of fish. If you look at the size of the people, you can tell that the tank is really tall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were so many colorful fish to look at. I really liked the pattern on this fish. It's called a honeycomb cowfish. Isn't that a strange name?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of the tanks had tunnels under them. When you crawled into them, you could stand up in a glass tube and pretend you were inside the aquarium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't know what kind of fish this is, but I loved the yellow color!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are sharks in the aquarium, but none this big. Did you know these sharks have two rows of teeth? I wouldn't want to meet a real one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you enjoyed looking at my pictures. I hope you get to see some animals during your summer vacation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just visited another state. Can you guess from the picture where I went? Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion went to see the Wizard of Oz. But they started out in Kansas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you look at a map, Kansas is just north of Oklahoma. It takes less than two hours to get to the state line. We stopped at the Visitor Center to pick up maps and take this picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were going to Wichita. Our first stop was the Pizza Hut Museum. This tiny building was the very first Pizza Hut. The company was started by two brothers. They decided to call their restaurant Pizza Hut because after writing Pizza on the sign, they only had enough room for a short word. Now there are Pizza Huts all over the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exhibits in the museum tell all about the business and have displays on Pizza Hut toys, like a play Pizza Hut kitchen and a Pizza Hut Barbie. While Miss Elaine looked at the exhibits, I sat on this old Coca-Cola cooler. This is what people used 70 years ago -- they didn't have Coke machines or Coke in cans back then. They put ice in this cooler and put the bottles in the ice. People had to pay the clerk because there was no place to put money in the cooler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it was time to go, I got to meet the ladies from Dodge City. This town was famous in the Old West. Here is my picture. Do you think I look like a real cowboy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You've probably guessed that I love zoos. This spring I visited the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. My new friend, Miss Debbie, is holding me and feeding Zoe, a young Masai giraffe. Giraffes are the tallest living animals in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I always like to see bears. This is a polar bear. Polar bears usually live in the far north. They like to eat seals but they are kind of slow and can't catch them in the water. Instead, they wait on floating ice and wait until a seal comes up through a hole to breathe. Then they grab them with their huge paws and long claws. Because of climate change, a lot of the ice is melting. This is very bad for the polar bears. Unless we take steps to slow the heating of our planet, the only polar bears left will be the ones living in zoos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very few zoos have manatees. These are large, peaceful water mammals. They have to breathe air but they can stay under water up to 15 minutes. They are sometimes called sea cows. You would think they would be related to whales or dolphins -- but their closest relatives are elephants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is me with a sculpture of two manatees. Not all the animals I met on my trip were real. Actually, I guess I'm not a real bear -- but I am a real toy bear. Here I am with another not-really-real animal --</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is me with Who-dey. He's a not-really-real tiger who is the mascot for the Cincinnati Bengals professional football team. He was very friendly. I love traveling because I get to meet so many nice animals -- and people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fuzzy</span>Elaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-5741288363606902492019-04-08T18:59:00.000-07:002019-09-28T15:25:16.231-07:00Fuzzy Meets a Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meet Fiona. She's a star in Cincinnati. She lives at the Cincinnati Zoo with her mom, Bibi. When Fiona was born, she was the smallest hippo anyone at the zoo had ever seen. She was six weeks premature -- that means she was born early. She weighed 29 pounds. The average newborn hippo weighs 100 pounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">People at the zoo were worried that she wouldn't survive. She couldn't drink milk, her lungs didn't work efficiently, and she couldn't stand up like normal hippo babies do. She wasn't strong enough. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She couldn't even suck milk from a bottle. Her keepers at the zoo ran a tube through her mouth to her stomach and squirted milk through a large syringe -- a syringe is the plastic part of a shot needle -- sort of a bigger tube with a pusher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nurses from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital came to the zoo to help. Fiona had to have someone with her day and night. They had to rub her skin with lotion so it wouldn't dry out. Normal hippos spend a lot of time in the water, but Fiona was too little. They took very good care of Fiona.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When she got bigger, they had to introduce her to water. They put swimming noodles under her tummy to help her float.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look at her ears. They're round and cute. The keepers thought they looked like ogre ears in Shrek -- so they named her after Princess Fiona.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fiona was a determined little hippo. When she got too big for her keepers to lift her into her tiny pool, she learned to walk up a ramp. She loved the water. She could close her nostrils (nose holes) and stay under water for several minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today she is two years old and weighs 1000 pounds -- exactly what a two-year-old hippo should weigh. She lives with her mother and together they enjoy a huge pool. Everyone in Cincinnati loves Fiona. A children's book has been written about her -- she even starred in a television commercial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fiona and Bibi like to eat lettuce and other vegetables. Miss Elaine and I got to get close and watch them be fed. Here is a picture of Fiona and Bibi waiting for food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you liked learning about Fiona. I saw lots of animals on my trip to Cincinnati. I'll be telling you about more of them soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fuzzy</span>Elaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-46005641439904232542019-04-06T19:03:00.000-07:002019-04-06T19:03:01.930-07:00Take Me Out to the Ballgame<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miss Elaine and I just traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio. Can you find Ohio on a map? On our trips we get to see lots of different things. One day we went to the ballpark where the Cincinnati Reds baseball team plays. I love baseball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We didn't get to see a game, but we did get to tour the stadium and the museum. Here's a peek inside the stadium. The Reds were practicing before their night game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you see the tall things across the field? These are the lights for night games. Because of their shape, they are called toothbrush-style lights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After we looked at the stadium, we toured the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum. One of the Reds best players was Johnny Bench. Johnny Bench is from Oklahoma. He's retired now, but when he was playing, he was the catcher for the team. He is one of the best players of all time. Here is me with the statue of Johnny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Johnny's nickname was "Hands." His hands are so big, he can hold seven baseballs in them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The museum has all sorts of exhibits -- from uniforms and items from players to this exhibit about how baseballs have changed over the years. In the front of the picture, you can see what's inside a baseball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My favorite thing was getting my picture taken for my own baseball card.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the Hall of Fame section, there are exhibits and videos of the best Reds players.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had a really good time at the museum. And I was really lucky because during this trip I got to meet two of the Reds' mascots, Mr. Redlegs and Rosie Red.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What a fun trip! And there's lots more to do in Cincinnati. In my next letter, you'll meet the most famous animal in Cincinnati. I'll write soon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Kids,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I bet you didn't recognize me in my Mardi Gras mask! Do you know what Mardi Gras is? Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. For hundreds of years, people celebrated Fat Tuesday by eating and partying before they began the somber period of Lent, 40 days before Easter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But they don't just party on that day. They start the parties 12 days after Christmas. That whole time until Lent is called Carnival or just Mardi Gras.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The favorite dessert during those months is King Cake and it's served at almost every party. It looks like this -- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It's like a giant, oval, cinnamon roll with a yummy filling inside and icing and sugar sprinkles on top. When Miss Elaine and I went to Mardi Gras in Shreveport, Louisiana this year, we ate lots of King Cake. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Parties are planned by groups of friends called krewes. Many of them plan special balls -- parties with food and dancing. They have a king and queen and royal court and everybody dresses up and wears masks. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> My picture above shows me in a Mardi Gras mask. We got to go to a museum and saw a whole bunch of fancy masks. This is me at the museum -- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Several of the krewes have parades with lots of big floats. All the krewes build floats to be in the parades. They even have a pet parade put on by the Krewe of Barkus and Meoux (meow). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Miss Elaine and I got to ride on a float in the Krewe of Highland parade. This is me getting ready for the parade -- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This boy caught a lot of things. It was fun throwing things to the crowd. Some people even remembered to yell, "Thank you." I had fun at Mardi Gras. Most of the Mardi Gras celebrations are in the South in places that the French people settled. Do you think we should have a Mardi Gras parade? I do!</span><br />
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It's cold out -- so I wanted to tell you about a place that makes the best of the cold and snow. These are pictures my cousin Vanilla sent me from her trip to Quebec, Canada. You know Canada is our country's neighbor to the north. It gets so cold and snowy there that people leave their Christmas decorations up until Valentine's Day because it helps them feel cheerful. And they have a big celebration this time of year -- Carnival. That's Vanilla and Bonhomme. Bonhomme means snowman in French. Many people in Quebec speak French. Bonhomme is the official greeter at Carnival.<br />
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Another cool thing they do -- and I do mean COOL - is build an ice village. All the buildings are made of ice blocks and all the furniture and decorations inside are made of ice. Below is a picture of the village. They even have a little church. That's Vanilla in the church. The benches are made of ice, so they put deer skins on them to keep people -- and little bears-- from freezing their bottoms! You can spend the night there -- on beds made out of ice. But they do put mattresses on the beds and plenty of blankets!<br />
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Back in the city, they build an ice palace for Bonhomme. He doesn't really live there but they use it for concerts and other special events during Carnival<br />
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There are lots of fun things to do, too. They made big, snow hills for skiing and for sliding down. You wouldn't expect to see a river raft come sliding down the hill -- but it is lots of fun<br />
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They also have games and races -- like this sleigh race.<br />
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And they have snow sculpture contests. Vanilla liked these dinosaurs.<br />
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Some people take snow baths. That didn't seem like much fun to Vanilla!<br />
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At the end of Carnival, they have a big night parade. Bonhomme waves good-bye for another year. I'd like to go to Canada for this celebration. Wouldn't you?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The Grand Canyon isn't the biggest or longest canyon in the world but it is the biggest one in the United States. And it is considered the most beautiful canyon anywhere. It is 277 miles long -- just a bit longer than the distance from the top to the bottom of Oklahoma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It was created by the Colorado River -- and erosion -- over 3 to 6 million years. If you could see through the hole in the rock in the picture below, you could see the river -- looking like a tiny thread -- about a mile down. If you look very closely, you can see people on top of that big rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope you enjoyed seeing my pictures. Have you been to the Grand Canyon? It's in Arizona. It was a two-and-a-half day drive from Edmond. Can you find Arizona on a map? Look at the top of the map of the state -- the Grand Canyon is sort of in the middle near the top. Do you know what direction is at the top of the map? There are lots of things to learn about travel. I want to share my adventures with you -- and I hope you get to do some traveling, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've long thought that a zip line would be fun but my knees would take a look at the stairs involved and convince my head that it was a bad idea. So when I found out that the zip line at Palo Duro Canyon (near Amarillo) didn't involve stairs, just a couple of bridges, I was in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what I didn't know -- the bridges were swingers with just cables to hang on to. I'll tell you right now, that was the scariest part of the whole adventure. The bridge to the take-off spot was 180 feet long. I had to just look at the platform ahead and tell myself "I'm almost there. I'm almost there" as I swayed across a chasm. I'm hoping the two videos work -- one is from the start of my zip, the other from the landing. Thanks, Jon Jarosh and Laura Watilo Blake for documenting my zip!</span><br />
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Hi Kids,<br />
Let me introduce myself. My name is Fuzzy and I am a Traveling Teddy -- part of the geography education program of the Society of American Travel Writers. My bear mom, Miss Elaine, writes stories for magazines and newspapers about places people might want to visit.<br />
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She brought me on a trip to Nebraska and we met your teacher, Mr England. He told us you might be interested in our adventures. If you want to be a traveler, too, you can. You can start right in your own hometown. I'm going to show you some of the things we saw when we visited Ogallala. I bet you've seen a lot of these things.<br />
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The first place we stopped was Boot Hill. That's where we met Mr. England. He told us about the cowboys who drove cattle up from Texas to Ogallala. And he told us about a lot of the people who were buried in this old cemetery. I really liked this cowboy sculpture but Miss Elaine was too short to put me up in the saddle so I had to sit on the cowboy's boot!<br />
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Our next stop was at the Petrified Wood and Art Gallery downtown. There were many beautiful paintings and sculptures there but I liked the rocks and wood best. The owners, Mr. Howard and Mr. Harvey Kenfield spent many hours shaping these rocks into spheres (a fancy word for "ball") and polishing them. Aren't they pretty?<br />
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Next we visited the Mansion on the Hill. This house is over 100 years old! It has been decorated inside so that it looks like it would have looked a hundred years ago. This is the children's bedroom.<br />
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If you had lived back then, you wouldn't have television or Nintendo or cell phones. But children back then had books, just like you do. I love to read. I hope you enjoy it, too<br />
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After lunch, we took a hike up Windlass Hill to see where pioneers going west on the Oregon Trail traveled. Miss Elaine carried me up the steep hill. She needed someone to carry her, too! Her legs were really tired by the time we got to the top!<br />
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Our guide explained how thousands of wagons traveled on this trail. No, not the little walking path we were on, but the area around it. Where the wagon wheels traveled, they packed down the dirt and kicked up a lot of dust. A particular kind of brown grass grows well in this kind of soil. If you look at the colors of the grass, you can see where those wagons passed over 150 years ago. Travel was hard and slow. It probably took them a day to get from where your school is now to Windlass Hill. We traveled that distance by car in about half an hour.<br />
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If you enjoyed reading about my adventure, please let me know. I would love to write you about other places I travel. You can also look at some of my earlier adventures when I was writing to a 3rd grade class here in Oklahoma. I would like to be your friend this year.<br />
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Love,<br />
FuzzyElaine Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02476532578834934218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481447618454512981.post-48449107751026163772016-05-06T11:36:00.001-07:002016-05-06T11:37:48.748-07:00Fuzzy Goes to Atlanta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi Kids,<br />
This is me with Miss Elaine and her grandson Calvin in Atlanta, Georgia, the capital of the state. Calvin was going to college in Atlanta and Miss Elaine wanted to visit him -- and she took me along. We did lots of fun things.<br />
The first thing we did was take a Segway tour. I had to ride in the pouch on the front of the Segway.<br />
Segways have two wheels and a motor. Before we could go, we had to take lessons. This is Calvin with our teacher Laura.<br />
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The trickiest part is getting on and off! We had to wear helmets. Thank goodness no one fell down! After our two-hour ride, we were hungry. You're not going to believe what we ate! This is called a Sublime Burger at a restaurant named Cypress Street Grill. It is a big burger topped with Cheddar cheese, caramelized onions and applewood-smoked bacon and, instead of a bun, it is served between two doughnuts! We shared it. The hardest thing was getting into our mouths!<br />
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One of the most interesting places to go in Atlanta is the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. Jimmy Carter was President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Some of your parents were babies back then -- or maybe not even born yet. Before he went into politics, President Carter was in the Navy and helped develop the nuclear submarine program. Calvin and I are in front of a replica of the inside of a nuclear submarine in the museum.<br />
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President Carter has always worked hard to solve big problems through peaceful means. Because of his efforts to make peace between Egypt and Israel he was given the Noble Peace Prize -- one of the most important awards in the world.<br />
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In the museum is a copy of the Oval Office in the U.S. Capitol as it looked when President Carter was president. We couldn't go into it but they had a big picture you could use for taking photos. I pretended I was president.<br />
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Another cool place we visited was the Fox Theater. It was built in the 1920s and opened as a movie theater in 1929. In those days, going to the movies was a big deal and theaters were often so beautifully decorated that they were known as movie palaces. Today the theater is used more for live shows and concerts but you can take tours, too. Have you ever seen a movie theater this fancy? I hadn't!<br />
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Here's one place that everyone who goes to Atlanta should visit -- the Georgia Aquarium. It's really big and has some really big fish! That's a whale shark in the picture below. You can actually swim in the tank with them -- they don't eat people. They aren't whales, which are mammals, but are the world's largest fish.<br />
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My favorite animals were the beluga whales -- this one seemed to be putting on a show for us.<br />
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I have enjoyed writing to you this year. I hope you enjoyed my stories and my pictures. Have a great summer -- I hope you get to do some traveling.<br />
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Your friend,<br />
Fuzzy<br />
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Hi Kids,<br />
This is me on my trip to the Texas Hill Country. These are bluebonnets -- the Texas state flower. They're wild and bloom all over this time of year. They are very pretty and everybody loves to see the fields of beautiful blue flowers.<br />
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Miss Elaine and I stayed at a nice place on Lake Buchanan (Buck-anan). It is very rustic -- you can see the local limestone used around the pool. It was too cool for swimming but we didn't have time anyway. Can you find me in the picture? Look for my white tee shirt!<br />
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There are lots of things to do here. One night we took a wagon ride to a big dark field where there is an observatory with two giant telescopes. We could see the stars and planets up close! We also got to hear a talk about snakes and lizards. This is a crevice spiny lizard which lives in this part of Texas. When you turn him on his back, he kind of goes to sleep. If you turn him back over, you have to make sure you are holding him or he will run away very quickly! He has a pretty blue tummy -- it matches Miss Elaine's purse.<br />
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One day we took a cruise up the Texas Colorado River which runs into Lake Buchanan. Captain Shawn let me sit in the pilot house to get our picture taken.<br />
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This waterfall was my favorite spot on the river. We also saw a bald eagle, some pelicans, some great blue herons and a wild pig.<br />
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Another day we visited the Fort Croghan Museum. Two of the buildings were over 150 years old! There were people there dressed in clothes like they wore in the early days of the fort. This man was dressed like a trapper. In olden times, he would have trapped beaver, coyotes, deer and bobcats and sold the furs to make money.<br />
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Another day we went to Longhorn Caverns. This is one of only three river-formed show caves (open to the public) in the United States. One of the others is Alabaster Caverns in Oklahoma. Have you been there? I haven't been there yet but I would like to go. We had to go down a lot of steps to get to the cave entrance.<br />
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Most of the cave walls are very smooth but this is a section that has calcite crystals. You can see several of them sparkling. Crystals a solid minerals which are usually clear and have very regular sides and edges. In another room we saw crystals much larger than these. <br />
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In this picture you can see the crystals much better. See how different they look from the rock around them.<br />
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Here you can see smooth walls. The lines were originally layers of sediment -- dirt that settled to the bottom of an ancient ocean and became squashed so hard and long that it turned into rock.<br />
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I think the cave was my favorite place. Most caves have stalactites and stalagmites caused by dripping water. This river-formed cave only had a couple of tiny ones. But it was cool to see how water carved this cave into smooth shapes. I hope you get to visit it someday.<br />
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Hi Kids,<br />
Miss Elaine, Mr. Jack and I went to Las Vegas, Nevada. Once it was just a dry spot in the desert then some people decided it would make a great resort. They built some hotels and put up fancy signs. Some had glass tube lights called neon lighting. It took a lot of skill to bend the glass into different shapes. See all the tubing on the duck sign? At night it would be really bright and pretty.<br />
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Now a lot of the old signs have been retired and collected in an outdoor museum. The neon signs were very expensive and difficult to make so pretty soon people decided to just use lots of light bulbs instead.<br />
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The museum is like an old attic with all sorts of signs stacked up. The big silver lamp came from the Aladdin Hotel. Do you know the story about Aladdin and his magic lamp? The pointy shapes came from the Stardust Hotel. I really liked seeing the old signs. Some of the old signs are displayed around town. They are very pretty at night.<br />
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We stayed in the old part of Las Vegas. There are a lot more hotels and things to do in other parts of the town but we wanted to see where the city started. Fremont Street was the main street. Now it has been turned into a pedestrian mall. Pedestrian means for walkers instead of cars. There are lots of bright lights here.<br />
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Several blocks of the street have a sort of roof over them. You can see videos on the ceiling. We were there at Halloween so they had scary pictures up there!<br />
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The ceiling is really high and there are zip lines so people can slide from one end to the other. Can you see the people zipping overhead?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are lots of things for grown-ups to do in Las Vegas but we found some cool things for kids, too. This giant bug is outside of a shopping/entertainment area called Container Park.<br />
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In the park the shops are all made out of stacked shipping containers. My favorite part was the playground in the middle.<br />
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I really laughed at the giant bug -- kind of like a praying mantis. There was a man inside and when someone would walk down the sidewalk the man would turn on the antennas. They made a loud roar. Everybody jumped then laughed at the surprise.<br />
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Hi Kids,<br />
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You just had a school holiday! It was called Presidents Day. Did you know that it was originally celebrated every February 22. That was George Washington's Birthday. The observance began in 1800, the year after President Washington died. It was because he was so important to our country and everybody wanted to honor him. Years later, Congress decided it would be nice if workers had more three-day weekends so they moved several national holidays to Mondays. George Washington's Day was one of them. Since it wasn't on his birthday anymore, they changed the name to Presidents Day.<br />
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In the 1920s, the South Dakota State Historian, Doane Robinson, decided it would be nice to have a giant monument to heroes of the West. He contacted sculptor Gutzon Borglum who said he would do it but suggested national heroes instead of figures from a smaller area.<br />
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Borglum chose four Presidents -- George Washington, because he fought for American independence and was our first president; Thomas Jefferson, because he wrote the Declaration of Independence and he expanded American territory through the Louisiana Purchase; Abraham Lincoln, because he freed the slaves and saved the Union and Theodore Roosevelt, because of his leadership in business and conservation and in building the Panama Canal. President Roosevelt is my favorite because Teddy bears are named after him!<br />
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It took 400 workers 14 years to finish. And it took a lot of dynamite to create the figures on Mount Rushmore. These heads are REALLY big. Each of George Washington's eyes is 11 feet wide. His nose is 21 feet long. He mouth is 18 feet wide. Could you measure how big these features were in your classroom?<br />
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This was really cool. There were wild mountain goats feeding close to the monument. Some of them had babies. Did you know baby goats are called kids? But I'm not calling you goats when I say, "Hi Kids!"<br />
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This is another cool thing we found at Mount Rushmore. This ice cream is made from a recipe used by President Jefferson. The recipe is over 200 years old!<br />
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Mr. Jack offered me some but I was afraid I would get my fur sticky! So Mr. Jack ate it all.<br />
Your friend,<br />
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