Flat Emma goes to a Luau

Hi, Flat Emma here again to tell about more of my adventures in Utah.
In my last post I mentioned that Debbie and I went shopping for stuff to make costumes. We needed costumes because Friday night we went to the annual library staff party, and the invitation said there was going to be a prize awarded for the best luau outfit. So we got grass skirts and hawaiian shirts and Debbie borrowed a lei from her friend for herself and made one for me. Almost everyone wore Hawaiian shirts, and there were a few girls with flowers in their hair, and of course they handed out leis to everyone. After we ate, they had everyone in costume stand up to show, and then announced the winner based on the response from the rest of the group.
Totally unexpected result... I won! I was so excited! Here's a picture of me and the library director with my prize. (Sorry the director's head got cut off.)




And here's a picture of Debbie and me in our costumes

The Adventures of Flat Emma: Chapter 1

Hi folks, Flat Emma here. I'm taking over Debbie's blog for a little while to keep a travel journal of my visit to Utah. Not much going on so far, but I'll tell what there is to tell.

My real me recently read the book Flat Stanley in her kindergarten class. In the book, Stanley is a boy who is accidentally flattened by a bulletin board and has many adventures as a very thin boy. He was even folded, put in an envelope, and mailed to California to visit a friend.

My real me's class thought that was a great idea, so they made copies of themselves to send out for adventures! I think I must have spent almost a week waiting in Debbie's mail box before she found out I was visiting. Luckily I was asleep for most of the time. When I get all folded up I fall asleep and dream about what the real me is doing.

Well, in any case, on Tuesday I finally got out of my envelope! I spent the rest of the day making plans with Debbie and deciding what kinds of fun things we can do while I'm in town. She works at a library, so I get to hang out there most of the time.

After work on Tuesday we went shopping to find costume stuff for Friday, but that's all I'm going to say about that right now. Check back this weekend to see why we needed costumes.

Yesterday we just hung out at the library. Debbie let me help put the holds away in the morning, and I read lots and lots of books.

Here are a couple of pictures... more to come later.

Changes

Life is full of changes, isn't it? Lately I've been inundated!

We got a new director last summer/autumn at the library, and contrary to the doom and gloom predictions made by some, nothing very substantial changed at that time. He didn't want to make changes just for the sake of change, so he observed for a while and now he is starting to implement the changes he's been pondering.

My cousins / landlords / upstairs neighbors realized that they just don't fit in their very small, two-bedroom home, and decided to sell. This meant that, depending on who bought the house, and whether or not they wanted an already established tenant, I didn't know if I would be moving or not. (Luckily for me, they want me to stay.)

The ward boundaries in my stake were rearranged last week, and my block got put into a different ward.

I was recently forced by circumstances beyond my control to get an iPhone (hee hee). I'm on my parent's phone plan to save a bit of money, and my dad decided to switch to the full data Sprint plan. Oh darn! It would have been extremely wasteful of me to not get a phone that could take full advantage of the expense he is putting himself to.

And finally, a change for you, as well. Because of the iPhone change, I made the decision to change from Blogger to WordPress, since with WordPress I can blog from my phone. You can now find me at smileyall.wordpress.com.