FLAT ANDREW

Welcome to my home town Flat Andrew. This is the street I live on. I like to ride my bicycle up and down the sidewalk. There are about 12,000 people who live in my small town. There is one grocery store, and two gas stations.
Flat Andrew, this is the COOP. This time of year you can find small lambs, chicks and baby calves to buy. There are a lot of farms in the area. They grow all sorts food. I love the corn. Last summer, my mom and I went and picked tomato's. There are also several orchards of apples and peaches. The water used to grow the food comes from the Colorado river, without it our community couldn't survive.
Flat Andrew, this is the Colorado river. It runs down the center of our community, dividing it in half. It is brown this time of year, because the rain turns the silt and mixes it with the water.
This is Dinosaur Hill it is just a few feet from the Colorado river. I have hiked it with my mother. In the 1900's Elmer Riggs discovered an Apatosaurus's bones in this hill. It was 70 feet long and weighed over 30 tons. A lot of dinosaur bones have been discovered in and around this area. We have our own dinosaur museum but it is very small compared to Carnegie's Museum.
There are also a lot of cattle ranches in the area. Flat Andrew and I are running through a field infront of one of those ranches.
Bicycle riding is huge in this area. People come from all over the world to bike the trails in our little valley. This weekend we have the "Fat Tire Festival" going on where people bring their bikes to ride some of our famous trails.
Flat Andrew met our statue of "Mike the Headless Chicken." His head was severed and he continued to live for several years. I have read anything from 2-4 years. I am uncertain which but I know it was for a long time. He was featured in time magazine. The city has a festival every year to celebrate him. You can learn more about this oddity by clicking here.

My mom wanted to get a picture of me on the main street with Flat Andrew. I was a little nervous. As you can see, our town is very small. The main street is about three blocks long.
Dinasaurs are a big part of Fruita's history too. There are Dinosaurs everywhere. This is a metal statue on the main street.
This is a massive statue of a dinasaur in the circle park in the center of town.
We drove up through Colorado National Park and took a picture of Flat Andrew and I looking down at our small town, as you can tell it is very rural.
Lastly, Flat Andrew wanted to take a picture infront of Independence Monumnet. It is a famous rock structure in Colorado National Park. Before I was born, my father came here to rock climb and he climbed one of the sandstone structure near Independence Monument it was just a little bit skinner but just as tall. Rock climbers come from all over the world to climb these amazing structures. You can also camp in Colorado National Park. It's entrance is minutes from my little house in Fruita. I love it here. We are glad Flat Andrew could visit.