{"id":3677,"date":"2012-11-02T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/11\/02\/our-adventures-with-traveling-charlie\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:03:29","slug":"our-adventures-with-traveling-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/11\/02\/our-adventures-with-traveling-charlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Adventures with Traveling Charlie"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, we received a letter in the mail from a friend in Kentucky.  Their daughter was participating in an exchange similar to Flat Stanley, but instead it was Traveling Charlie.  Each child in the class was given a paper cut out of a Charlie doll and then chose somewhere in the world to send him.  When you receive Traveling Charlie you are supposed to take pictures of things around your area and send a letter with pictures back to the class telling them all about where you live.  We were excited to be chosen to spend time with Charlie and Mikayla had a blast!  During our two weeks with Traveling Charlie, we did a lot of fun things.  Here are some pictures of what we did!<\/p>\n

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Charlie got to spend one day in preschool while we had our learning time!  He learned all about Little Bo Peep and the letter B!<\/em><\/p>\n

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He even got to go on an adventure to South Africa!  This is at the border crossing on our way home.  Hamba Kahle means "Go Well."<\/em><\/p>\n

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We were even able to introduce Charlie to the Giant African Land Snails!  Don’t worry, I wouldn’t let Ben feed any to him!<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>\"Charlie,<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie tagged along for one of our childcare meetings.  Here he is with Mikayla and some of the staff.  They were a little confused by why we were snapping pictures with a paper cut out of a boy!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Charlie,<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie with our kitchen staff and a couple of the high school students.  Look at those huge pots!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Charlie,<\/a><\/p>\n

This is Mikayla showing Charlie where the kids wash their clothes.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Charlie,<\/a><\/p>\n

Mikayla, Charlie and some of the preschool students.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Charlie,<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a view from our walk up to the hostel.  It is really green right now, but soon will be dry again!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Charlie,<\/a><\/p>\n

Mikayla and Charlie posing in front of one of the mango trees.  They are almost ready to eat!<\/em><\/p>\n

Below are some pictures of the animals we saw while traveling with Charlie:<\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago, we received a letter in the mail from a friend in Kentucky.  Their daughter was participating in an exchange similar to Flat Stanley, but instead it was Traveling Charlie.  Each child in the class was given a paper cut out of a Charlie doll and then chose somewhere in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-parenting","tag-mikayla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}