Atlanta, Georgia!

Hi Kids,

This is the first car trip that I have taken this year. I came here to Georgia for Thanksgiving break
On Wednesday, after we arrived, we went to for a walk in Piedmont Park, and I saw some animals in the water.

 

 

The ducks and turtles live together in a pond. They seem to get along well. How many turtles can you count in the picture? How many ducks? Which is more? How many more?

 

 

 Here is something else we saw in the park - a beautiful fountain. The blue sculpture in it is made of glass.

 

 

I know that Rock Hill has a Fountain Park too. I hope that you'll all get a chance to go there - especially in the winter when they make an ice skating rink!

 

 

Thursday was Thanksgiving, so we stayed at home. In the morning I watched the Macy's Parade. I liked all of it, but my favorite part was seeing the high school marching band from Fort Mill. That is the town right next to us!

 

After that we had a big dinner. As soon as the turkey came out of the oven, I hopped right up on the counter to take a look.

 

Mm-mm, it smelled so good!

Atlanta is a large city - bigger than Charlotte, so there are lots of big city things to do that are very different from Rock Hill. On Friday we went downtown. We rode there on the subway. In Atlanta it is called MARTA. It goes a lot faster than a car, because it doesn't have to stop for red lights, and there are never any traffic jams.

 

 

 I didn't meet any famous people while I was here, but I did see a famous place. This is the house where Dr. Martin Luther King was born and grew up. It is on Auburn Avenue. You might have seen it in a book about Dr. King. We went in and had a tour. They show the rooms and talk about his life there as a little boy, and the work he did later when he grew up.

  

 

On Saturday went to the Georgia Aquarium. It has so many kinds of fish, eels, turtles, dolphins, and even whales! It has pretty much anything that lives in water. Before we went in, I posed for a photo with this dolphin statue.

 

 

Inside, we watched the fish swimming. This is the biggest tank. It is three stories tall! The big fish is called a whale shark. The name is confusing - it IS a shark, but it is NOT a whale. In fact, it is the largest kind of fish in the world.

 



The next picture is kind of tricky. It looks like a lot of underwater plants and rocks. Actually, it is a lot of underwater plants and animals! There are some types of seaweed (plants), but the things that look like gray rocks and the light green rock in front are really animals called coral. Taken together, these plants and coral form an underwater habitat called a coral reef. 

 

Can you find the seahorses? 

This is Sunday.  Mr. and Mrs. North are driving back to Rock Hill, but I am staying behind. Every other time, I have come back to school between my trips, but not this time. That is because Dr. Kevin is bringing me on another trip next week. On December 3rd we will go to Canada! I can't wait! I'll be sure to send you pictures.

Your friend,
Flat Stanley