Travelog for: Tokki

Hello!
I haven't started traveling yet, but I decided to post some pictures of myself to show you what I look like.

Here is a picture of me:


And here is a picture of me with my brother Mao. He is a bit moody at times but also very playful, so I like to play with him (I have to be careful though because he bites sometimes! ).


And this is me with my sister Gaby! She is really sweet and we like to sleep together.


My mum says she will try to take me to a few places around here to take pictures during the next week, before she sends me to hosts around the world. So I'll probably update this travelog soon.
Please PM my mum if you would like to host me for my first big adventure, I'm really excited to discover the world! :3

- Tokki

Hey, it's me again!
I really wanted to go out today so my mum brought me to the park to play. It was really fun! I thought I should share these photos.

Mum says there is usually snow here at this time of year but it has all melted about a week ago this year. Oh well, I had fun anyways, playing in the leaves!



I needed help going up the stairs because I am too small for them...


I like climbing to high places! I have to be careful not to fall though, because rabbits are fragile animals and I don't want to be hurt...says mum.




I rested on a bench for a bit, enjoying the fresh air!


This slide was high so I was a little scared...


But I went down anyway and it was fun!


This one was a okay because it wasn't as high.


And of course I had to try the swings!



I had a lot of fun at the park! I hope I will get to do more fun activities like this during my adventures!


- Tokki

Hey everyone!

I'm updating my travelog for the last time before leaving Canada. I was supposed to leave later, because my mum wanted to take me to a few places around here to take pictures, but I was so impatient to leave...so I convinced her to let me go earlier. I will be travelling to Finland. I'm sure it will be really fun there, I'm very excited!




The lady at the post office said I was cute... it made me happy.
I'm very excited to leave for my first adventure! My mum is a bit nervous to let me travel the world on my own, but I know my host will take good care of me so I will be fine. :3

So this is it, I'm leaving now! I hope I won't get lost on my way!
Have a good day everyone and wish me a safe trip!

- Tokki

Hi mom,

Guess what? I'm here! I'm in Finland! I arrived here already!

There's several small creatures to saying welcome to me, when I came out of my envelope. My hostmom said they all have waited for me. Awww, how nice is that! I'm feeling so welcome here.



They all gave me a welcome hug! How sweet!

Here's Sylvia from Germany



...and here's Porridge from Germany



...and Mo from Poland



...and Luna, hostmom's own travelling toy, who is home right now



...and here's hostmom's real living cat



I told everyone that I'm from Canada, from North America. They all were exited about it. I also told that this is my very first time to visit abroud. Everyone said I must be very brave bunny, because I came to Finland, so far away from my own home, and in my very first journey. Well, I guess it is so.

I asked hostmom to show me, how far away Finland is from Canada.
Ooooh, did I really travel so MANY kilometres? 



Mom, can you see Finland? It's right there... in Scandinavian.



And Jyväskylä, town where I am right now, is in Central-Finland.
Mom, you can find Jyväskylä, when you look the part of Finland where is so many lakes. And guess what? Hostmom told me there's about 188 000 lakes in total in Finland. Wow, is it incrediable! 



Mom, there's small lakes just next to city center, too! Wow! 
And my hostmom lives just next to other lake.



When all these introductions had done, we decided to play little in the climbing tree of hostmom's cat. It was really fun! Cat came to play with us, too. 

















Then we all hear something weird sound from outside. We wanted to know, where that sound comes from. So, we all went to see trough the window...
...and we saw a big car, who removes snow.
Awwww, we all stared that big car.     







Oh no, hostmom's car is under the snow... We must do something about it... hmmmm... We all were thinking, how we can solve this problem. 

We decided to go outside and clean hostmom's car out of the snow.
Here I am, cleaning the car:





And look mom, I'm here, in the middle of snow!!! 



And look, how nice hole I made in the snow!



As you can see, I'm fine. And I think I will have great time here. Mom, don't be worry at all.

Ooooh, I'm so exited! Hostmom told me that she has very special plans for tomorrow. What would it be? Just can't wait!

Lots of love,
Tokki
xxx

Hello mom,

I had a wonderful day! Guess what my hostmom has planned for today?
I can come with her in a postcrossing meeting. Wow, I meet new Finnish people there, and chatting with them, and offcourse write many postcards.
(Mom, keep on eye in YOUR mailbox! )

The meeting was in Harjun Paperi, the wonderful little postcard shop in this town. You can see from the following pictures, that I had really good time there! 


As you can see, there's something little to eat (pizza, Karelian pies, cookies, chocolate eggs etc.) 





Here I am, eating a Karelian Pie with egg-butter. It's something really Finnish thing. It was good!


The Wikipedia tells this about Karelian pies:
Karelian pasties or Karelian pies (South Karelian dialect of Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka; North Karelian dialect of Finnish: karjalanpiiraat, singular karjalanpiiras; Karelian: kalitt, singular kalittoa; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku) are traditional pasties from the region of Karelia. Today they are eaten throughout Finland.

The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also had wheat alongside of rye to improve the baking characteristics of the available rye breads. The common fillings of this era were barley and talkkuna. The 19th century first introduced potato and buckwheat as new fillings, and later due to trade, also rice and millet.

Nowadays in the most familiar and common recipe the pasties are made 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 pasties before eating.


And here I am, drinking milk.



Then it's time to write some postcards





Mom look, how cute Easter things and postcards there was!!!













Riding a bike, hi hiiii!!!! 


Look mom! 
There's flowers in shoes!!! 



Here are we all toys. They are my friends!






Love,
Tokki
xxx

MOM, HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAYS!





Hugs and kisses,
Tokki
xxx

Hello mom!

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

Hi mom,

It's Easter now! 

I found a small chocolate egg in hostmom's box between all strings.



I decided to get the egg out off there.
But what happened? I found the egg, but I'm in stuck myself... 



hmmmm... what I can do now? 

I decided to ask help from others. 
Porridge, Amie, Sylvia, Niiskuneiti and Mo helped me. 



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 Porridge...


...helping Mo...


...helping Sylvia...


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





xxx
Tokki

Hi mom,

I was visiting my hostmom's work. She is a nurse, and 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 Sylvia, Porridge 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,
Tokki
xxx

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

At first me and ToyVoyagers Amie, Niiskuneiti, Porridge, Sylvia and Mo 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
Tokki

Hi mom,

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

Mom, you can learn Finnish now!!! 










Love and kisses,
Tokki
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.

There's hostmom's home, on the second floor.



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!



it's leaving!



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,
Tokki
xxx

Hi mom!

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.

























There were some flowers, too.





Mom, I'm top of the World!!! 



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





Mom, look, I'm sitting on Finland! 




Hugs,
Tokki
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?



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,
Tokki
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 Sylvia, me, 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,
Tokki
xxx