My oldest grandchild, Bob, who will be 10 this July, has taken an interest in the Dodo Bird.
He’s done some research and shared a few facts during his last overnight – like, the Dodo Bird was large (“the size of James and Max put together”) and was pretty good eating.
He also informed me that the Dodo lived on two islands East of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean: Reunion and Mauritius.
He is so taken with the Dodo that he made an unusual request: for his birthday, he asked me to buy him flags from Reunion and Mauritius.
We discovered that Reunion has a very cool “unofficial” flag, but because it’s a “department” of France, you can’t buy an actual Reunion flag.
Mauritius, however, does have a nice flag of their own. So, I ordered it for Bob.
It’s 3 feet by 5 feet, and I have no idea where he’s going to put it – maybe suspended from the ceiling in his room – and maybe some day it will go with him to college.