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Flat Stanley arrives in Salt Lake City just in time to say good bye to Aunt Tina, Uncle Dave and cousins Olivia and Mark.
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Aunt Tina and Uncle Dave stayed at the Marriott Hotel while Olivia and Mark had a sleep over with Aunt Catherine and Uncle Tony.
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Welcome to Utah!
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Uncle Tony and Aunt Catherine live at the Irving Schoolhouse apartments. This used to be a middle school.
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Flat Stanley is outside of the apartments.
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Hooray! We have arrived at Aunt Catherine and Uncle Tony's apartment!
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Flat Stanley meets the kitties: Spike and Angel.
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Spike takes a taste but decides Flat Stanley is not cat food.
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Aunt Catherine and Flat Stanley took a walk around the neighborhood and went through the Hidden Hollow park.
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There are pretty bridges across a stream.
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Aunt Catherine and Uncle Tony live in the Sugar House area of Salt Lake City. Sugar House gets its name from the original plan to grow and harvest sugar beets. Flat Stanley is next to one of the large sugar beet sculptures.
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We walked to Sugar House Park, which was the original location of the Utah Penitentiary.
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Sugar House park has a large pond and a beautiful view of the mountains.
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Flat Stanley says, "There are many geese at the park so be careful where you step or you might step in goose poo."
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One of the friendly geese at Sugar House park.
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There are a lot of sea gulls too.
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Friendly goose coming to greet Flat Stanley.
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Is Flat Stanley good to eat?
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Uncle Tony took Flat Stanley on a tour of Red Butte Gardens and the Natural History Museum.
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The Natural History Museum
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Mule deer.
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Native American artifacts
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Native American totem pole.
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Bird's eye view of Salt Lake City in the form of a relief map.
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Info about Utah
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Info about Utah
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Native Americans left us drawings of their lives. We call them petroglyphs.
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A chocolate exhibit at the Natural History Museum. Despite all the chocolate he ate, Flat Stanley was still flat.
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Look out Flat Stanley!
