Travelog for: Danko

Hey.

My name is Danko the Zebra.

I am ready to start my Journey.

Hey everyone,

I finally arrived in the small German town Detmold in the state of North Rhine Westphalia!
The weather is great and will (most likely) stay that way this week. 
I hope, I'll be able to take some nice photos soon, until then - have a great day! 

I started to take photos outside in the garden, because the weather was really great. I couldn't think of something better than sun bathing in a bed of flowers or in a canopied beach chair.

This morning it was raining again, but I already found a nice hat for possible colder days. 
In the afternoon the weather became a bit better and my host mum showed me the town centre from above and the sheep up there.

Today my host mum had to go to the bank and took me with her into the town centre. Detmold has a lot of beautiful and old houses. You can see two of them on the photos (the one with the ivy on the wall is my favourite!). I hope to be able to take a picture of one of the typical half-timbered houses as well. In most German cities these were destroyed in the Second World War, but Detmold still has a lot of them!

Today was an official holiday (1. Mai) and the weather was awesome!
We went into the town centre again, so that I could see all the beautiful und famous places in Detmold.
I saw the castle and the park around it. It was crowded there, because of the great weather. There is a small lake around the castle, too!
I got to see some more old buildings, like the post office, the Protestant 'Christuskirche' (church of Christ), a half-timbered house, which belongs to the 'Landesmuseum' (museum of the state), and another one, that is a hotel.
I liked especially the old 'Landestheater' (theatre of the state), which looks fantastic from the outside. Unfortunately I wasn't able to look inside, because it was closed at this time.

Hi Mom!!

I arrived safely in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America! I was welcomed by NoMi and his mom.



I wanted to be sure that you knew where I was living! It's a nice house....4 other people live here besides Chloe09! There are also three dogs.....they were big and scary. Chloe09 didn't let them near me because I was a little scared!



I was lucky enough to meet NoMi before his journey off to Portsmith, England! My first trip was to the Post office to see NoMi off! Even though I only spent a little bit with him, he was interesting and had lots of cool stories to tell me!



After giving NoMi a happy goodbye.....we went and visited an outlet store filled with discount bread! She let me try a few different kinds that were there. They were surprisingly good!! You should have seen all the bread, mom!! It was awesome!!!





Look at all the bread we bought too!! She let me pick out some!!



That's all we did today. I'm having fun so far! Don't worry about me, Mom! I'm having fun and being VERY good taken care of!!

Miss you! Love you!!
Danko

My host mom and I went shopping at the Galleria in Edina! It's a cool little shopping center.


We were window shopping at these shops:





This is a fake dog that scared me when we were walking around! I thought it was real but my host mom let me know it wasn't!




After this shopping experience.....we had to pick up my host mom's mom. She works at a construction company and had an awesome pink hat! 



Can't wait for more adventures! Miss you Mom!!

Hey Mom!

Today my host mom, took me on a car ride through Downtown Minneapolis. There were so many buildings and cool things to look at!







We also went and saw Amtrak, which is a cool train they have. Chloe09 was telling me that we could take that train across the country visiting a variety of cities and states. It just cost too much money for us to do it now. I had fun looking at them anyways!











We are off to Como Zoo! I'm so excited!!!

We went to Como Zoo and saw a bunch of different animals! It was so cool...there were kids there and so many different things to see!!


This was the conservatory that we didn't get a chance to go in but the building was very cool.









This was a fake turtle that I got to sit on!!



These were cool coin machines that I got to use! It was really fun.

Whohoo!!!! I completed a life Mission!!!!
Aren't you proud of me, Mom?! I finally got to meet another Zebra! Very friendly and awesome!!!!



I had so much fun and feel ever so lucky to meet other Zebras!!!
Love and Miss you Mum!!!
Danko

Whew it has been such an adventure!!!! We stopped at this cool restaurant called Snuffy's Malt Shop! I was there with my other TV friends.


My TV friend, Lilla, and I were trying to figure out what to order! There were so many choices!



After we were done eating, we went through a car wash! It was soooo cool to be in there. Look at how much fun the other TV's and I were having!!







It's been an amazing trip!!! I miss you Mum!

Hey Mom!!

We got to go to a Dog Show! It was so cool! We got to see various dogs being judged and some of them had weird hair cuts! It was through the American Kennel Club, which is a registry of purebred dog pedigrees in the United States. They are judged on the authentication of the true dog breeds and how they are suppose to look like.






We also had gone to Special Olympics which is an organization devoted to providing sports competition opportunities for athletes with intellectual Disabilities. My host mom wasn't able to take many pictures with me in them but put me in the pictures. It was so much fun!! I helped the athletes pick out songs to sing karaoke with since my host mom was volunteering.




I'm so excited to see what other stuff we get to see. My host mom said we were going on a road trip this weekend so can't wait to see where!!!!

Miss you but I'm having so much fun.

Hey Mom!!

We got to take a road trip to Duluth, Minnesota! I got to take the trip in style!





After seeing some of the sights, we were hungry! We went to eat at Grandma's Saloon and Grill. We had some good burgers and fries!!!



This is the Ariel Lift Bridge. It lifts the bridge up to be able to let boats go underneath the bridge but cars can go on the bridge when it's in place!




We took a walk down by the Lakeshore Walk. Then we decided to go rent this cool bike. Jillyifsh had all of her TV's, Shaunee, Luc Zeke, Noodles, Okuma, Chubby Berry, and another one that I forget his name....We all got to ride in this cool basket.





We got to stop and watch some boats coming in!



The last stop was shopping and we saw this huge Moose that we had to take a picture on! It was sooo much fun!


Miss you much mom! We will be going to Wisconsin next for a family camping trip!!

Miss you Mum!!!
Danko

Hey Mom!!

Sorry for the delay in pictures! We were busy visiting places! We got to go on a camping trip! Here are a few pictures at this Hepokoski Family Camp!!


The lake was beautiful!! The family was having fun in the lake and I wish we could have gone swimming but Chloe09 didn't want to.




It was saddening that we had to go back to Minneapolis. We were having so much fun at Camp. Can't wait to see what else goes on!!!



Yours truly,
Diddl-Maus

Oh Boy was that a fun trip we took!! We took a trip to Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.  The Mall of America (MOA) is the largest mall in the United States with the most visitors. One in ten shoppers is a tourist! There’s no sales tax on clothing in Minnesota. The Mall of America is one of the biggest most interesting places to be! There were 4 full floors of shops and restaurants!

This is the cool ramp we parked in. It was weird that the level we were on was named after a state in the United States of America.

Here I am with all of my TV friends! Lilla, Diddl-Maus, Buxi and then me! Yay!!

There were rides inside the mall….I couldn’t believe it! There were also some cool stores. American Girl store was pretty girly and little girls were playing with dolls of all different sizes!


There was this cool Disney store. Lots of clothes, costumes, and memorabilia from all of the Disney Movies! We got to sit and watch part of Toy Story 3! There were kids and parents there too!



I can’t wait to see what’s next!!!
Miss you Mommy! =)
Yours Truly Danko