Jyväskylä, Finland - 5th April 2012
By: mmm105
MOM, HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAYS!
Hugs and kisses,
Porridge
xxx
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Posted Apr 5, 2012, 7:47 pm
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 7th April 2012
By: mmm105
Hello mom!
Easter is coming, so I made some Easter preparations with my ToyVoyager friends: Amie, me, Luna, Tokki, Niiskuneiti, Sylvia 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
Porridge
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Posted Apr 7, 2012, 7:57 am
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 10th April 2012
By: mmm105
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Posted Apr 10, 2012, 8:55 pm Last edited Apr 10, 2012, 8:55 pm by mmm105
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 11th April 2012
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Posted Apr 11, 2012, 12:40 pm Last edited Apr 11, 2012, 7:08 pm by mmm105
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 12th April 2012
By: mmm105
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 and other things...
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,
Porridge
xxx
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Posted Apr 12, 2012, 9:21 pm
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Natural History Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland - 13th April 2012
By: mmm105
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.
This place was really exiting!!! I saw many animals.
...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, I'm climbing on the border of the Finland!
xxx
Porridge
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Posted Apr 15, 2012, 7:43 am
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Restaurant Food, Jyväskylä, Finland - 13th April 2012
By: mmm105
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.
They served ice water in these huge things. We had to climb on each other to get a chance to drink it.
Hih, I was just kidding, mom! Offcourse we got drinking glasses to use.
Here we all are eating some nachos, mmmmmmmm, yummy!
I like nachos!!!
Mom, do you want them, too?
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!
Lots of love,
Porridge
xxx
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Posted Apr 15, 2012, 8:00 am Last edited Apr 15, 2012, 8:58 am by mmm105
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Jyväskylä, Finland - 13th April 2012
By: mmm105
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 Sylvia, Tokki, Sweetheart-, Krok Little, Mo, Ape Apina, Bzzzzz, me, Amie and Niiskuneiti.
This day was a FANTASTIC day! I really liked this ToyVoyagers meeting! I just wish you were here, too.
Hugs,
Porridge
xxx
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Posted Apr 15, 2012, 8:51 am Last edited Apr 15, 2012, 8:58 am by mmm105
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