Travelog for: SaruMaru

SaruMaru's favorite color is yellow.  His favorite fruit is banana and favorite flower sunflower!!

Mommy took us to visit her friend Marina.  She is really nice and made us some mate.  It's a drink from Argentine and you fill the cup with sugar and tea, then pour hot water, stir, and drink through a metal straw with a filter at the end.  It's almost like a reversal of the standard tea ball and teacup. 

Marina told us that when you drink mate, you say thank you only when you have enough.  Otherwise, if someone refill the cup and you say thank you, that's no more tea for you!! Now I have to remember that.

Hello! SaruMaru here. Mocha and me are currently staying over at Robito's house in North Bay Village for a few days.

Yesterday Robito went somewhere with his Mom; he was acting very mysterious and didn't want to tell us where he was going or what for. I wonder what's going on?

Anyhow, since we were going to be alone all day, we were told to entertain ourselves in whatever way we pleased. So Mocha asked me to help him climb onto the drawing board that they have here (it's an easy feat for me, but he isn't as agile and nimble!)

He then said that he wanted to draw me. I thought it was a fun idea, so I posed for him. Holding the same position got a little tiring after a while! Mocha colored my portrait with markers, too, so it took him a long time. But I was happy with how it came out! I'm taking it home with me!

Robito and his Mom arrived soon afterward. I'll write more about this later.

So, a little later after Robito got back, he called us and told us he'd been to a craft shop, and had a surprise gift for me. I couldn't see what it was, but that's because he was hiding it behind his back! That's why he had acted so mysteriously as he left earlier in the day.

I'm very happy with my new visor. It fits me perfectly! I'm glad Robito remembered my favorite color, too.

Doesn't Mocha get anything, though? He seemed kind of disappointed... But, Robito still acted mysterious, so maybe he's hiding something for Mocha, too? I hope so!

I had a lot of fun today. I made a new friend--a mouse named Vince. He had his little son Vinnie with him. They're traveling the world and been to many different places and seen a lot of different things, so conversing with them was very entertaining.

We had a little welcome party for them, with a lot to eat and drink. I'm still stuffed as I write this! (Stuffed--ha ha ha! That's right, of course I am! Oh, never mind...)

After the party, Vince and I looked at a big album of postcards together. But there were too many to see them all today.

A little later Robito finally gave Mocha his present. It was a beautiful sled. Mocha was so happy that I just couldn't be jealous... I had to be happy for him, too!

Besides, I'm sure he'll let me ride it too. He'd better!

Today we partied! We're finally going home tomorrow morning, Mocha and I. But, we're taking good memories from Robito's home. I hope I get to stay over again sometime in the future. Maybe after we've all traveled a bit--then we'll have stories to tell each other!

After the party I fooled around with a pretty dishcloth I found. It had a beautiful drawing of sunflowers on it. So I lay on it for a while and played with some bananas. It's OK that I played with my food. I ate it afterward!

Bye bye, Robito, Vince and Vinnie! It was so nice getting to know you better. I hope to make many more friends like these!

Boy we got busted!  I didn't know that my partying photos are all over the Net!  There I was next to the big bottle of Barcadi.  Mom didn't buy it that I didn't touch it at all...  But honestly I didn't!  Not that I remember, at least...

Anyway I was grounded.  But fortunately mommy relented and took us out to the beach.

Here's a picture of me at Hobe Beach on Virginia Key.  The fancy buildings are at the Brickell financial district just south of downtown Miami.  It was a warm, sunny day out.

It is me SaruMaru----I have arrived.  The trip was so quick and I had my friends with me to keep me company. 

Palmito ---I mean "Captain P" came with me and my newest friend little Helen Bear.  I was very happy that I was not alone.

Several of us TV's that are staying for the Halloween party went for a short ride to a small country town.  There we got to see some of the largest pumpkins ever grown.

My host tells me that the orange pumpkin weighs 1,200 pounds.
The lighter colored pumpkin weighs 1,524 pounds. 

Both large pumpkins were in contests for the largest and biggest pumpkins in California and Oregon.
The pumpkins owner won a first prize for each pumpkin.
The owner earned several thousand dollars for his wins.

I wanted to sit on the pumpkin but my host told me my bum was too round.    It made me fall off the pumpkin each time I tried to sit there.  I had to sit on the ground with the other TV's.

My friends who did not have fat bums got to sit on the pumpkins. 

I finally arrived at the Halloween party and there were many games going on.  It was fun to see so many toyvoyagers all together having such a great time.

The first game I got to play was called "Dunk for the Jelly Beans."
It was very hard.  I did not get even one jelly bean.

There were others that were trying to place a tail on a bear in another game.  The bear didn't seem to mind.  He didn't have a tail and he wanted someone to put a tail on him.

It seem scary to try to place a tail on a bear.  But the other monkeys tried it.

There was a birthday party at the Halloween party for Minerva bear too and we all had some great little chocolate cupcake treats.  They were very good.

Then everyone got to go trick r treating.  Here is a house that everyone thought was pretty neat.  Kind of scary but fun.

Everyone got gum and candy here.

It was fun for SaruMaru to go trick r treating and go to a fun Halloween party because then everyone can take home some special treats.

Today the monkey kids all played around together before SaruMaru had to leave and go back home.  They thought they might try standing on their heads to see who could stand there the longest.

Palmito, Bongo, Holiday Harry and Jelly  were all pretty good at it. 

SaruMaru still has a problem with a round bum and a round head.  He falls over most the time no matter what he tries to do.  He did get a little help but he was not the winner of the game.