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Washington DC, United States - 16th March 2008
By: wmphimu
It was such a beautiful day, so after walking around the museum, we decided to walk around the Mall a little bit. Plaid Moose told us that the Mall isn't a shopping mall - it's a big grassy area with monuments and Smithsonian Museums around it! The Washington Monument is at one end...
And the Capital Building is at the other!
We also walked through the garden at the Smithsonian Castle - the main building for the Smithsonian museum!
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Posted Mar 16, 2008, 5:22 pm
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Fairfax, Virginia, United States - 22nd March 2008
By: wmphimu
Everyone here is all excited for the NCAA basketball tournament (college basketball). They call it "March Madness," and everyone goes nuts for it! People fill out brackets to guess who will win, and there are lots of contests and games with it! So, Plaid Moose, Resi, and I decided to play too! We filled out our bracket based on the mascots - we all like animals a lot (and don't know a lot about basketball) so it seemed like the way to go!
We picked West Virginia University to beat Wisconsin in the final. West Virginia won their first two games...and here we are watching Wisconsin play this afternoon!
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Posted Mar 22, 2008, 10:37 pm
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Washington DC, United States - 29th March 2008
By: wmphimu
What a day! This weekend started the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Japan to the U.S. and is a huge festival every year when the trees bloom along the tidal basin. So we all went into DC today to see the trees and the Jefferson Memorial!
Here I am in front of one of the beautiful trees:
And here I am along the Tidal Basin with the Jefferson Memorial in the background!
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Posted Mar 29, 2008, 11:41 pm
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in the mail, to Australia - 31st March 2008
By: wmphimu
After a fantastic trip to the United States, I headed out to Australia today! I will be arriving in 5-10 days (according to the man at the post office), but I plan on flapping my wings a little bit to help my package along!
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Posted Mar 31, 2008, 11:01 pm
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Mount gambier, Australia - 11th May 2008
By: gingermuggins
Hello!
I arrived about a week ago, Sam did message my mentor to say i was in Australia. I was posted to Sam's mum's post box as Sam wasn't sure when she would have time to visit her own post box. Sam's mum was lovely and let me out of my travel box as soon as she rescued me from the post office. I did meet the resident cat but the photos haven't been downloaded from the mobile phone yet.
When Sam came to pick me up, a week after i arrived, I couldn’t resist and had to see if Sam had any stickers on her car.
How disappointing!! Only 2 stickers. One is the regestration sticker that say’s the car is allowed to be driven and the other sticker has me totally confused, why would a car want to become a truck?!?!?!?!
When we arrived at Sams house I was jumped on by other Toyvoyagers! There was a dreadful noise of hello’s but they calmed down long enough to have a photo taken.
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Posted May 13, 2008, 3:54 am
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Hosts Home, Australia - 17th May 2008
By: gingermuggins
Hi Again!
Finally we get to have party food and birthday cake!!!! I'm sorry there aren't more photo's, we were having so much fun, the camera sat in the corner and didn't get used.
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Posted May 23, 2008, 5:00 am
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Hosts Home, Australia - 19th May 2008
By: gingermuggins
Hello
Sam's daughters brought someone home to visit. His name is Lucky and he is a toyvoyager but not like us. He visits the homes of everyone in the school. A different student each night. He has a diary that the children write in and either draw a picture or stick a photo in. Lucky has had soooo many adventures. We chatted all night then Sam took our photo to put in Lucky's diary.
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Posted May 23, 2008, 5:10 am
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