Flat Madelyn Returns to Hudson

Ohhh...did Grandma have a lot of fun the last three days with Flat Madelyn's visit! (See post below). Remember, she arrived from my Granddaughter in Hudson, WI. I was to show her around and have "adventures" with her, and then after three days, send her back to Madelyn's school, with a "report" on what she saw in Duluth. She went to work with me and we had a slippery drive down Duluth hills to downtown, on icy and snow covered roads, following a 10 inch snowfall the day below, and 8 degrees temperature. I showed her around my office, and the office building. In the three days, we "visited" Duluth sites, and I told her about the things that are special about Duluth, the lake, the bridge, the North Shore, the Aquarium, the museums, etc. On Thursday night she went to the beauty shop with me, to church service for Maundy Thursday, and a quick stop at the grocery store on the way home. A photo was taken of her at the grocery store and the beauty shop, also at work, and with one of our wigs from the "Wig Room". Yesterday she spent time with Grandpa, running errands with him. I wrote about it all, and bought poster board and put the writings along with photos and post cards on the poster board, along with shrinked copies of "Flat Madelyn" on each display board, and on some of the post cards. I even made a display board of Duluth summer photos and post cards, to entice her and her classmates to come to Duluth in the summer. I spent all last evening working on putting the display together. I ran out of poster board, and sent a pile of post cards along with. I put everything in a priority mail box and took it the post office this morning. Flat Madelyn and her display should arrive to her teacher on Monday, or by the latest, Tuesday. I'm excited to hear from Madelyn how she likes what I put together. I called her this morning and told her it was on it's way, but I didn't tell her about the pictures, or display boards. My daughter wondered if anyone else will do what I did. I told her if Madelyn gets graded on it, she should get an "A". Last evening when I was working on it, I kept coming up with more ideas, and ideas of what I could have done if I had Flat Madelyn for more than three days. I ran into someone in the office building, when I was showing her, that told me he and his wife had a Flat Stanley come to them from Ohio, from their Grandson. They were able to have him for a MONTH. He told me they took lots of photos and enlarged them and did all kinds of things. (I had already thought of the photos, so when he told me they took photos, I knew I wasn't so crazy to think about doing that!) Oh, if I could have had her visit for a month!

This summer we are planning to have Madelyn stay with us for a week, so we will then be able to show our Granddaughter all the things here in Duluth that Flat Madelyn saw and heard about. We are looking forward to that!