Travelog for: Phog

Hey mommy!

Guess what? I ate together with Kurnau something really Finnish thing: karjalanpiirakka (a Karelian pie). 

Kurnau told, that nowadays in the most familiar and common recipe is  to make Karelian pies from a thin rye crust with a filling of rice. Butter, often mixed with boiled egg (egg butter or munavoi), is spread over the hot pies before eating.

And mommy, I have to say: These are good!!!  You really should try these some day!

After eating the hole Karelian pie, Kurnau asked if I would like to have a tea party. I wanted it, so Kurnau invited all others to come to drink some tea. 

And we had a great tea party! We talked, and laughed to each other. It was really nice way to spend the afternoon.

Mommy, just take a look at the pictures, and you will see how much fun time we all had.

Love,
Phog

Hello mommy!

Today three ToyVoyagers left. BarryO went back to his home in USA, Suomi-boy started his very first journey and he is travelling to USA together with BarryO, and the third toy who left here was Suomi-girl who is travelling to Germany.

I hope they have a safe journey, and they arrive soon to their destinations.

Love,
Phog

Hi mommy!

It's raining outside, so we need to do something inside... Kurnau had an idea what we could do.
Can you believe what I did today? I played a violin!!! And it was really fun!





After this music moment, I had to say goodbye to Rico the Tiger, because his journey continue. He goes to Spain. Wow, there must be fun! 



We gave him a group hug, too.
I hope his journey will be safe.



Love,
Phog

Hello mommy!

Finally it has stopped raining outside, and I could go to little walk there.

Mom, can you see the white house in the backround?
It's the house where Kurnau and hostmom mmm105 are living.
And there's me, too, living while my visit here.



Look what I found!    So many raindrops!!!



This is one of the public art sculpture in this town. This one's name is "Keinumieli-Tyhjämieli-Häkkimieli" and the artist is Juhani Petäjäniemi, and it has made in 1989.
The name is difficult to translate into English, but it might be something like "a mind of swing - a mind of emptyness - a mind of cage".



I think this is Keinumieli (a mind of swing):


And this is Tyhjämieli (a mind of emptyness):


And this is Häkkimieli (a mind of cage):


And there's another art. This one I like a lot, because it looks like there's two people flying! This one's name is "Elinehto-ajatus-liiketoiminta" and the artist is Heikki Häiväoja, and it has made in 1979.
The translation of the statue's name is "Lifeline-idea-business".



A group photo of us



This is one of the many buildings in Jyväskylä, which has designed a World-famous architect Alvar Aalto. More info about him you can find for example here. A small interesting detail I want to share with you: Jyväskylä is the city where are more buildings designed by Alvar Aalto than in any other country!!!



Very near was a playground. And offcourse we went there! 

Mommy, look! I'm sitting on the bird's head!



Then little bit swinging...







...and then sliding!



wiihiiiii!



And then (offcourse) all together!





WIIHIIIII!!!!



It was fun! So FUN!
Look how happy I am!!!



On the way back inside, I climbed in the tree.
Can you see me?



And if you are wondering what the light in the backround is, I can tell you it's the sun. Yes, it has started to set down already.



Others who were there wanted to come to sit in the tree, too.



It was such a nice day!

Love,
Phog

Hi mommy!

I saw today evening a nice sunset over here.
What do you think about it? Is it beautiful?
It was so relaxing to watch it!



Love,
Phog

Hei! Hello!

I went outside for a little walk.



And mommy, guess what I saw there? Yes, a mushroom!!!
Oh, summer will be over soon, and autumn is coming...



I think this musroom is big. Are you agree, mom?



Love,
Phog

Hello all!

I had such an exiting day today. Hostmom took me and other toys with her and went to drive a car. And guess where we went? We went to visit hostmom's friend. Yes, we all were there.
There was a Tupperware home party there. Do you know Tupperware? I think it's popular in many countries. They have good quality things to use in every-day-life.
I met many nice other people there, and we made some smoothies (and drank them) and some croissants, too (and offcourse we ate them, too).
It was nice!

Love,
Phog

Hei! Hello!

It's the birthday of hostmom's cat Jeppe today. He is now 2 years old.

We celebrated the hole morning, and we all had so much fun!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEPPE-CAT!

Love,
Phog

Hei!

Yesterday we had to say goodbye to Bzzzzz, because she joined in Long time RR and started to travelling to Germany. 
"Bye bye Bzzzzz! Travel safe!"



But, today we got more company. Cute pony girl from Germany arrived here. Her name is Flowipowi



I gave her a welcome hug.



Love,
Phog

Hi mommy!

Today Kurnau showed me really great thing. We went to see the monitoimitalo (it's like a sport center), and especially the pictures in the wall of that building.
They are so cool!!! Look, there's human pictures doing different sports!
Kurnau teached me some Finnish words about sport.

paini = wrestling
tanssi = dancing
lentopallo = volleyball
painonnosto = weight-lifting
voimistelu = gymnastics
jalkapallo = football
juoksu = running

Love,
Phog

Hei! Hello!

I wanted to do something exiting and little silly things today.
So, I played to be a paparazzi, a photographer who takes photos in secret. I went outside to walk a little, and I saw kids playing football there. And offcourse I took a photo of them, and offcourse in secret. It was really FUN!!! 



Then I continued walking. 





And I saw a nice field.



Offcourse I wanted to see it closer! 



There we took a group photo.



Love,
Phog

Hey mommy!

Today I had a great day. Guess what I was doing? I visited in the city named Äänekoski. It's located quite near of Jyväskylä, just little bit North. 



We found a magical little shop named Pompom. The owner of the shop was really nice, and she aloud us to sit on the hammock! It was so fun! 



And mommy, can you believe that the owner of the shop was fall in love with Wayne-cincerbreadman!!! So funny!!! It was love in the first sight.

We found other interesting things from there.
Look, this is an antique bed full of different coloured strings! 







What do you think about this chair? Is it very colourful? Do you think there's all colours of the rainbow in the chair?



Oh, and the best part visiting in the shop was meeting other toys there. They were very nice, and together we had so fun time. They were interested about travelling... who knows, if they will be a ToyVoyagers someday... 



After shopping we ordered some pizzas and then we went to another building, and there we took part in the postcrossing meeting!!! It was so fun! 







It was really nice day!

Love,
Phog

Hei mom!

Today I heard an interesting thing. Kurnau told, that this city, Jyväskylä, is an official City of Light.
More info you can find here: http://valonkaupunki.jyvaskyla.fi/english
So, the hole day we only waited the night. We wanted to see some beautiful lights of this city. But because there's so many of them, we only visited some. Can you believe there's more than 70 illuminated sites to admire in Jyväskylä?

At first, we went to see the bridge of Kuokkala.





And then we visited in the harbour.



And before going back, we visited the Church Park.



And now I'm ready to go to sleep a little...

ZZZzzz  zZZZzzzZZz ZZZZzzzzz zzzZZZZzzZzz...

Love,
Phog

Hei! Hello!

We got more company today. A little pelican Sausi Karl arrived from Germany.





We all gave him a group hug as a welcome.



Love,
Phog

Hi mommy!

Yesterday I read a local newspaper Keskisuomalainen. It was little difficult to read it, because everything was written in Finnish. But hostmom was nice, and she helped me to translate it. 



Almost immediatelly I noticed the interesting thing in the first page.
There's a picture of parrot, and the headline "Torsti and Kalle osaavat puhua" which means "Torsti and Kalle can speak".



I read to hole article of these talking parrots. It says they have started parrots' school! They are learning tricks! 



And mommy, guess what happened today!!! It was something really great!!! We went to meet these famous parrots!!! They are living in Jyväskylä region. 

So, today me, Sausi Karl, Kurnau, Flowipowi, Cody Otter, Lina, Hunny and Ranja Dragon went to the place called Viherlandia, the place where Torsti and Kalle are living. This place is like a garden centre, the perfect place to find for example flowers, plants, stone product, garden supplies, interior decorating products etc. 



Are you agree that this place looks like a jungle? 



Let me introduce... Kalle.... No, it's Torsti... No, I mean Kalle... 
Well, I don't know, which one this is...   

But anyway, this parrot said: "Terve! Mitä kuuluu?" (it means: "Hello! How are you?")
So funny talking parrot!!!



There I saw also many beautiful flowers in Viherlandia.





Love,
Phog