Travelog for: Sylvia

Hello mom!

Easter is coming, so I made some Easter preparations with my ToyVoyager friends: Amie, Porridge, Luna, Tokki, Niiskuneiti, me and Mo.



I painted an Easter egg. It was nice!



Then hostmom put all eggs (painted Easter eggs and chocolate eggs) to the nice yellow cup.





I got hungry while painting eggs. Hostmom suggested me to taste and eat something really Finnish Easter thing: Mämmi. Mom, this Easter dessert looks very suspicious!!!   
...but it tasted yummy! 



Now you might wonder, what Mämmi is... Well, let me tell you...

Wikipedia tells that mämmi is a traditional Finnish Easter dessert. Mämmi is made from water, rye flour, and powdered rye malt, seasoned with dark molasses, salt, and dried powdered Seville orange peel. The mixture is then allowed to go through a slow natural sweetening process before being baked in an oven until set. Preparation takes many hours, and after baking the mämmi is stored chilled for three to four days before being ready to eat. Generally mämmi is eaten cold with either milk or cream and sugar, and less commonly with vanilla sauce.

Happy Easter mom!

xxx
Sylvia

Hi mom,

It's Easter now! 

I found a small chocolate egg inside this cheece toy of hostmom's cat.



I decided to get the egg out off there. But how I can do it? 
It's there, inside... but I can't get it out myself... 





I asked help from others.



Niiskuneiti, Amie and Mo was on the cheese toy with a cocktail stick, and Tokki and Porridge was just next to cheece toy with a cocktail stick, too.



It was really difficult, but together we did it!!! 



Can I eat it? It looks so yummy! 



Hostmom said no, not yet... First we need to help others to find their chocolate eggs.

...helping Mo...


...helping Porridge...


...helping Tokki...


Now we all can eat our chocolate eggs!!! Mmmmm, so delicious! 





xxx
Sylvia

Hi mom,

I was visiting my hostmom's work. She had a night shift last night. I was helping my hostmom keep awake the hole long night, I keeped a company to her.

Look mom, I found new friends there! There's a small nurse doll and a small teddy bear, and offcourse ToyVoyagers Porridge, Tokki and Mo, were there, too.







And there's me taking a little brake... my hostmom drank a cup of coffee while I was talking with friends.



Hugs,
Sylvia
xxx

Today I went outside to play with snow. It was so fun! 

At first me and ToyVoyagers Tokki, Niiskuneiti, Porridge,  Mo and Amie cathered together to think what we would do.



Then we decided to make a small snowman. 

First need to make 3 big snowballs...





And then we put those snowballs together



The snowman is ready!!! Jey!!!   





This snowman is funny, because he is going to sailing!!!   





It was a nice day!

xxx
Sylvia

Hi mom,

Today I learn some Finnish language. My hostmom teach me. And I teaches some words of German to my hostmom.

Mom, you can learn Finnish now!!! 











Love and kisses,
Sylvia
xxx


P.S: Mom, guess what?  Hostmom has planned something special thing for the end of this week! Ooooh, what it might be? I'm so exited!

Hello mom!

Today I walked soooo many kilometres!!! Ooooh, my legs...
Hostmom show me Jyväskylä city.


This is a nice statue. It looks like two humans are flying! 



This is very usual view of this town at this time of year.





Isn't this big one?



This is the orthodox church of Jyväskylä.





And this is the evangelical lutheran church of Jyväskylä (Taulumäen kirkko).







Hih hii, here I am! 



...and walking continues...



We found stairs.









There's a small river inside of the town, named Tourujoki.



Look mom!!! Animal friends!!! 















Nice statue, isn't it?





Look mom!!! The bear!!! It's lucky that it's not a real living one...





This is also quite pretty statue. What do you think it is?



Look mom, how funny sign I saw!!!   
Do you think those humans are going to crash?



I made this snow-heart to you, mom! <3



We all are friends!



Mom, look how far away I am from some other countries! Wow! 



This place is Harju. It's just in the middle of Jyväskylä. It's famous sport center.







...and walking continues...











This old war machine is a statue nowadays. It reminds and respects all Finnish soldiers who were in the war many many years ago.





So long stairs... Mom, you can see the city center down there!





This is the town hall of Jyväskylä.



I went to library, too.
Look, there's a table for Titanic books!



Soooo many books... 



Look mom, this funny art sculpture is in the library. It's "Tiedonpuu" in Finnish, "A tree of knowledge" in English.



How many Jyväskylä flags!!! Hostmom told that Jyväskylä has 175th anniversary in this year.



This is another church of Jyväskylä.







Look how funny tree there was! Can you see me in the picture, mom?







I found very old train!!!
Can you see me in this picture?







"Mitä kello on?" (How much the time is?)



Oh, there's a new train!



This is the Matkakeskus. There's the bus station and the train stations in the same building.



This moose was in front of the Matkakeskus building.



This is the main street. It's the street, where the most of shops are. It's kävelykatu in Finnish.



And this is the plaza ("tori" in Finnish)



It was nice to see this city, and different places in it.

Tomorrow I will have an exiting day... just can't wait... You might wonder now, why tomorrow will be exiting. hih... well, I don't tell you that yet. It's a surprise.

Lots of love,
Sylvia
xxx

Today I had a nice day.

Hostmom has many ToyVoyagers with her, and she was thinking it would be nice if all can meet other ToyVoyagers, too. So, together with her friend Reissari, they planned
a ToyVoyager meeting!
They decided to meet with all their travelling toy friends in the Natural History Museum of Central Finland...



The Natural History Museum's website (click) tells that "The Natural History Section serves as a preservation unit for natural scientific research, and displays environmental subjects and research material. It takes care of the living plants of the botanical garden on the campus. It also receives wild animals found dead and prepares scientific samples of them. The section has a collection of over 250 000 samples, the most numerous being invertebrates, plants and moss."

I met many other ToyVoyagers, and we all became friends. How nice is that!

Here we are... all sitting together in front of the big sized bear.







Mom look, I visited in a birdhouse!



...but I went off there very quickly, because I saw eagle coming!     



Don't be worry, mom! I survived very well. 

This place was really exiting!!! I saw many other animals, too.





















...and some flowers.





I want to show you, where this country is. Finland located on the north side of the Earth, in scandinavia.



It might looked funny to be on the planet Earth ball, because others came on it, too.





Look mom, here I am, sitting on the top of Finland! 




Lots of love,
Sylvia
xxx

TOYVOYAGERS MEETING, PART 2:

Hi mom!

After visiting the Natural History Museum of Central Finland, I was really hungry. So, we all went to eat something at the restaurant named Food. It was nice place.

There were small sized menus for me, too! Hmmmmm, let's order something... 



Here we are, waiting to have something to eat.



Here we all are eating some nachos, mmmmmmmm, yummy! 







I like nachos!!! 



Mom, do you want them, too? Here, just take it.



Ooooooh!!!  Soooo big portion of food! Jey! Yummy! 



Oh, my tummy! I'm so full!



After eating I wrote a postcard to you, mom! 



...and clued the stamp on it...



...and mailed it. 



Mommy, look carefully your mailbox!!! 


This day was a FANTASTIC day! 


Kisses,
Sylvia
xxx

TOYVOYAGERS MEETING, PART 3:


Hello mom!

Here I am, in Kirkkopuisto (= a church park).



...And here I am again, sitting with ToyVoyagers friends on the stairs of that church.



There's me, Tokki, Sweetheart-, Krok Little, Mo, Ape Apina, Bzzzzz, Porridge, Amie and Niiskuneiti.




This day was a FANTASTIC day! I really liked this ToyVoyagers meeting! I just wish you were here, too.

Hugs,
Sylvia
xxx

Hi mom!

Yesterday I was in ToyVoyagers meeting (as you already knew), but guess what I did today?

I was in a postcrossing meeting! 

The meeting was in the café named Wilhelmiina, in Jyväskylä city center.



Mmmmmmmm, I tasted a piece of cheece cake and hot chocolate.



Delicious! 



Oh, my pour tummy! It was so yummy!



Mommy, look how many postcards!!! 



Other ToyVoyagers were there, too.









And then it's time to mail all those postcards. We went to the local post office. Post office is posti in Finnish.







Behind us there's a Hockeybird flyers. The charachter Hockeybird is the official mascot of ice hockey World Championships in this year.


Love,
Sylvia  xxx

TVs are eating TVs and watching TV, and there's a picture in TV where are TVs eating TVs and watching TV. 



There's Ape Apina, Bzzzzz, Porridge, Niiskuneiti, Mo, Sylvia, Tokki and Amie.

Hi mom!

Today I said goodbye to 3 ToyVoyagers. They leave from home today.

Bzzzzz goes to Austria. I gave her a goodbye hug.





Amie goes to Germany.





and Niiskuneiti goes to Germany, too.





I hope they all will have a great journey!

xxx
Sylvia

Hi mom!

Today I learned to make origami. It was fun!

















It is a pen. Is it nice, mom?



bye,
Sylvia
xxx

Hello mom!

I watched through the window that it's snowing outside. So, I asked hostmom if I can go outside and maybe playing with snow. She smiled and said that off course I can go.



Mom!!!!
Guess what I did?

You can't believe this, but I was skiing! 





Others were there, too.






There were skiing: Ape Apina, Luna, Mo, Tokki, Porridge, Hipsu and offcourse me.


It was really fun!

Lots of love,
Sylvia
xxx

Hi mom!

Today we got more company here. Two ToyVoyagers came here.
PinkLady-bunny and Finfin-ladybug.





I gave them both a welcome hug. 





Hugs,
Sylvia
xxx