This is where Flat Stanley and I said our final goodbyes. You can see that he travels light and should arrive home before school is out for the summer so he can see Jane and all the children and show them his new Australian duds.
Stanley wanted you to see his his Australian Manly Beach muscle shirt and Billabong shorts and flip flops. Its what he's wearing for his ride home.
Yes, he's definitely homesick, had a wonderful adventure down under at the Top End of Australia but he's ready to head back to Boston. I think he's missed all the kids in Jane's class at school.
Here he is, waiting to go to the post office, just chillin'. Bye, Bye Stanley.

Flat Stanley went with us to the wave pool in Darwin and here he is in his floater ring at the edge of the waves but the waves got bigger and bigger and he said he was a beginner swimmer and wanted to play in the kiddie pool.

So I took him to play in the fountains and he liked that much better because the water was very shallow and he knew I would watch out for him.
Here he is on the boogie board just laying around in the sun.

He liked sitting in the baby stroller but the baby came back and wanted her seat so he had to give it back to her.
He did get the giraffe towel though and he was happy. It was a good day at the pool. His trip is almost at the end and he's getting homesick so in a couple of days he will say goodbye to us and send himself home again to Boston.

Can you tell what this it? Stanley went on an elephant ride in Bali and yes, this is the equivalent of your nose. This is a very close photo of an elephant's trunk. Its really big, so big that Stanley was scared and didn't want his photo next to the big elephant trunk.
This is the elephant I rode on with Stanley but he wasn't happy riding on the elephant and I didn't want to show Stanley crying so he's not in this photo either.
The one thing Stanley liked was when the elephant's trainer gave the elephant a harmonica to play while we walked. Can you see the blue harmonica in the elephant's trunk? The elephant didn't know any good tunes though, so he just made some pretty sounds.
I think I told you in the last blog that elephants really like water and they're good swimmers (Stanley thinks that all that fat helps them to float). So we rode them into the pond and they sucked up water and blew it out their trunks.
Here we are, on our elephants, all 7 of us posing for the camera. Stanley is so small you can't even see him. Maybe that's why he was frightened to go on the elephant ride. He felt very small next to those big elephants.