www.intermod.org: Flat Bridget visits Atlanta

This is a story about Flat Bridget. Flat Bridget is the flat version of Real Bridget, who read the story of Flat Stanley at school. So Flat Bridget was created, and then Real Bridget decided to send Flat Bridget to visit Uncle Chris and Aunt Sharon in Atlanta.

Uncle Chris was very excited to receive Flat Bridget! He took her to the airport, where they watched the planes coming in to land. They flew right over their heads! It was very loud, and Flat Bridget wanted to cover her ears.

Flat Bridget went with Uncle Chris and Aunt Sharon to visit some friends who had two new kittens. The kittens liked Flat Bridget so much they stood right on top of her! Then Flat Bridget got to meet Flat Legolas from a famous movie about hobbits. She even had a chance to play the drums!

Uncle Chris and Flat Bridget went to the baseball stadium, Turner Field, but there was nobody there. They did get to look through the fence at the giant baseball. Play ball!

Flat Bridget then went to visit Eyedrum, which is a place that Uncle Chris likes to go to. When Uncle Chris wasn't looking, she climbed up on the silo out front -- Flat Bridget, get down from there! Then they went inside, where Flat Bridget looked at strange art and then got up onto the stage and spoke her mind!

Next Flat Bridget went downtown to work with Uncle Chris. She played on the big CNN sign with another little girl who was also visiting, and then she watched some people announcing the news like they were on TV.

Then they went across the street to the park. She wanted to run into the fountains with the other children but Uncle Chris said "Flat Bridget, you are made of paper!" and would not let her go in. Look at the tall skyscrapers! See how some of the windows look different? A very strong storm called a tornado came through downtown Atlanta and broke many windows in the skyscrapers. But nobody was hurt and they are now fixing all of the windows.

Later that night there was going to be a movie in the park, but it was going to be a famous movie about a big shark. Shark movies can be scary so Flat Bridget didn't want to see it. But in the distance, can you see the building with the "G" on it? That is the Georgia Aquarium, and Uncle Chris is going to take Real Bridget there when she comes to visit Atlanta. Lots of fish and sharks and whales and dolphins and all kinds of water creatures!

Next Uncle Chris took Flat Bridget to another place that he works. It's a place called a teleport, where they have many big satellite antennas that are pointed at the sky. The antennas are talking quietly to the satellites very high in the sky, much higher even than airplanes.

Flat Bridget came back home with Uncle Chris and Aunt Sharon, where their cats Maggie and Penny were very curious about the new stranger in the house and spent a lot of time sniffing and exploring. After a while we could see that Maggie liked Flat Bridget very much!

Finally, Flat Bridget posed for a picture on the back deck with her aunt and uncle. And it was time for her to go back home to Petaluma and be with Real Bridget again!