Flat Stanley (for those of you without young kids) is a character in a book who is squished flat when a bulletin board falls on him. Altho some bad stuff happens, he discovers some good things about being flat (sliding under doors is one!) including fitting into an envelope to travel around the world.
Kids all over read this book and then do school projects where you send your Stanley somewhere to friends or relatives for an adventure and he comes back to you with information and stories about his trip. (I am pretty sure Sam did this in 2nd or 3rd grade). Anyway, a friend of Elmer's at work (in Las Vegas) asked if they could send Stanley to us for an adventure. It was very good timing, since Lori was coming and we were going to the Taj Mahal (I mean, really, how many times does Stanley see a Wonder of the World?). When she arrived, we (mostly Lori) decked out Stanley in authentic Indian clothes and off we went. 
At the end, we sent him home to Spokane with Lori then he went home to Las Vegas in the mail. It was fun for us too, except we had to carry him around and try not to wrinkle him!
We took Stanley to Sarojini Nagar market, for shopping. And then we bought some fried potatoes (yumm) but being so thin, he hasn't got much appetite so I ate his. The guys at the food stand thought we were weird, but they still held him up for a photo!
This is another famous site in Agra, Itimadud-Daula, but we didn't go in. We jsut had a photo-op.
We went to the Red Fort in Agra (not to be confused with the Red Fort in Delhi)
which is HUGE and is on the other side of the river from the Taj Mahal. If you are high up you can see it across the river. We went there first, so that was our first look at the Taj.
Gotta love these giant gates and entrances. Alex was pretty-much Stanley's guide and taxi.
While we were there and wandering around, we came across this group of monkeys. Stanley got a nice view of them.
Stanley and the other kids wandered around the Red Fort, climbing all the hidden staircases and poking their heads out of crazy little doors 20 feet up in the wall, like this one.
With Lori and the girls. This is a part of the Fort even though it is not red.
Randy and Isaac show how authentic Stanley's clothes are. Lori did a great job. I really like the turban! We sent Stanley home with some postcards, elephant keychains, photos and hopefully some memories of a good time.
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