{"id":932,"date":"2013-07-14T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:36:28","slug":"flat-fountains-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Flat Fountain’s Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted sporadically about our amazing trip, but I must post fully about the adventures of Flat Fountain! For those who are scratching their heads, trying to figure out who the Flat Stanley<\/a>-esque character is that appeared in numerous road trip photos on my Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook streams, let me tell you about Flat Fountain! Alaina and I have a really great principal, Mr. Fountain! I originally hoped that he would be coming to ISTE this year, but he couldn’t because he was busy awaiting the arrival of his first child this summer! A big congrats to the Fountains, who welcomed their beautiful baby into the world this week!!<\/p>\n

We realized that Real Fountain was going to have a VERY busy summer, but wouldn’t be doing any traveling. So this is where Alaina and I came up with the idea of Flat Fountain! He would get to travel to all of the awesome fun places along our epic road trip…<\/p>\n

Our adventure began on June 22 as we drove from Baton Rouge to San Antonio. Here’s Flat Fountain at the Texas state line.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We had a wonderful time in San Antonio at ISTE learning, exploring, and visiting with friends!\u00c2\u00a0Flat Fountain met many of our friends, including Matthew Winner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He was excited to visit the Alamo<\/a>, but was disappointed to find that there’s no basement. Flat Fountain also enjoyed the Riverwalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Other ISTE friends included Moby<\/a> and presenter Lori Elliott<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After leaving San Antonio, we drove into New Mexico. Flat Fountain really enjoyed Carlsbad Caverns<\/a> because he met a new flat friend there!<\/p>\n

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We visited Roswell, NM and the International UFO Museum and Research Center<\/a>, but Flat Fountain wasn’t too sure about those aliens…<\/p>\n

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We rode along Route 66 where we could, which Flat Fountain really enjoyed. One of the fun places he visited along the way was the Wigwam Village Motel<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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In Albuquerque, NM we had a great visit at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flat Fountain was very excited to enter Arizona because it’s such a beautiful state!<\/p>\n

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The most exciting thing that Flat Fountain did in Arizona was rafting on the Colorado River<\/a>! It was a HOT day (105 degrees), so Alaina and I went for a dip in the water (which was a CHILLY 47 degrees), but Flat Fountain obviously couldn’t get wet!<\/p>\n

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On the way to Las Vegas, the winding road took us in and out of Arizona. We did get to make a fun stop at the Little Hollywood Movie Museum<\/a> in Kanab, Utah. Flat Fountain got to play the part of a movie star in an old western!<\/p>\n

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The Hoover Dam<\/a> was another must see sight on the Colorado River.<\/p>\n

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Flat Fountain was happy to spend a few days in the same spot…in Las Vegas! It was also nice to see a familiar face as my mom met us there! Vegas was the hottest town on our stop…LITERALLY, with a top temperature of 126 degrees!<\/p>\n

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After leaving Vegas, we took a scenic drive through Utah…such a beautiful state! Flat Fountain visited a number of National Parks along the way, including Zion National Park<\/a> and the AMAZING Arches<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Flat Fountain was snoozing as we drove into Colorado in the dark, and he recovered from the long day in Utah as Alaina and I visited with a friend in Denver (thanks for having us, Carleigh). Ahead of us was another long day of driving through Kansas. We did enjoy our visit to the\u00c2\u00a0Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in Abilene, KS.<\/p>\n

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We stayed the night in Topeka, KS and visited Monroe Elementary School, home of the Brown vs. Board of Education Historic Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flat Fountain was very happy to say, “We’re not in Kansas anymore,” as we make another stop in Kansas City, MO. We made two more library stops: Kansas City Public Library<\/a> and Truman’s Presidential Library & Museum<\/a>. The Truman Library was one of the best museums we visited during the entire road trip! Flat Fountain particularly enjoyed the recreation of Truman’s Oval Office.<\/p>\n

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Our next stop was St. Louis, which proved to be a pretty tricky city! We ended up in Illinois twice after unintentionally taking the bridge over the Mississippi River. Flat Fountain finally had his chance to visit the Gateway Arch<\/a> before we headed out of town.<\/p>\n

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Next, we headed to Memphis, TN, the final stop on our amazing road trip. Flat Fountain visited Graceland, home of Elvis!<\/p>\n

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And before heading home to Baton Rouge, Flat Fountain needed to do one last thing…send a post card from Graceland<\/a> to baby Fountain!<\/p>\n

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What an incredible adventure for Flat Fountain…and Alaina and I had a blast too! I know that the memories we made on this trip will be shared ALL the time, for years to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted sporadically about our amazing trip, but I must post fully about the adventures of Flat Fountain! For those who are scratching their heads, trying to figure out who the Flat Stanley-esque character is that appeared in numerous road trip photos on my Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook streams, let me tell you about FlatRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}