Travelog for: Anton Bär

I am currently at home and wait for my owner to come back from kindergarten. I am so excited to travel soon to some unknown place.

After my owner came back from kindergarten we played a bit. Then I cooked him dinner (which he did not like). Here you can see me cooking:



And here I am playing with my owner and Kasper, one of my friends. Kasper is an orphaned toy, which Mommy and Daddy found on a bench some years ago. He slept the last night at kindergarten, because Mommy forgot him.



Now my owner is in bed and we have finally some time to watch TV and relax.

Today was not very exiting. But at least we had some sunshine here. In the afternoon I had teatime with Mommy and Daddy and the little one.



It seems as if I could travel very soon. I am so exited. What should I pack?

The weekend was not so nice. My owner was ill and had fever. So today we were at the pediatrician. Fortunately everything was okay. Only a flu and pain from teething, nothing serious.



In the afternoon I made the last preparations for traveling. I am so excited to go on my first trip. And all the way to China!



I then said good-bye to my friends here. I will miss them very much. Hopefully I will make some new friends at my host.



Bye, bye Germany! China here I come!

Mumbling...
I can do it, just hold on for a few more hours.
My friends are definitely waiting for me already...

Hallo my dear little owner and mama papa,
I finally made it to Beijing!
There are 5 voyagers at my host's home, they are Dancing Dolly, GiGi giraffe, Crabs, Eliott and MooseS! All of them are enjoying the Chocolate I brought to them. Oh yes my host Mia wants to say thank you for the gifts, she loves them very much.
Can't believe that I'll go to Tiananmen tomorrow, oh I need to take a good rest first..ummmm..How's the flu and toothache? I'm so worried about you my owner. Hope everything is going well.
Lots of love
Anton

ni hao,
This is the first Chinese phrase I've learned so far which means hello.
How excited! We were going to take subway line 1 to visit Tiananmen, it took us about 18 mins to get to the Tiananmen West station. I should say it was a little bit crowded in the subway. We walked through exit C and found that there was an entrance to the National Theater! ummmm..the official name is National Center for the Performing Arts.
My little owner, did you see the new outfit I have for today? 
Yes I got a green striped sweatshirt and green scarf. Mia said I really need to put on some clothes to keep warm, the high temperature will be 12c though.
Do you like green? I'm loving it! Maybe I can use green as the color of my travelog.
Anton

Here we got to the hall of NCPA which is National Center for the Performing Arts. It's such a long name I even can't type them all into the 'Place'. Right, I prefer to call it National Theater.
Mia told us we are about to meet Amy who will join us for today. 
But 20 mins' ve passsed, we still haven't seen her yet. We found a place to have a seat and play some games to kill time. Honesly it was quite boring. So we finally decided to take a look at the National Theater.
Haha Dancing Dolly calls it the Egg. 
I can't understand before but after the short visit I know what does she mean. The Nationl Theater is indeed a giant egg. We moved to the east of the Egg and found that there is no different between each sides, any direction we take photos the building would looks like the same egg. Then we gave up.
Hooray! Amy is waving to us.

The photo below is us sitting in front of the Great Hall of the People.
I've heard we can always see that building on CCTV News 7:00pm every day night. It's a place where holds important meetings inside. All the leaders from other countries like Argentina, America, France...of course Germany, they will literally come here if they visit China. Our Chancellor Angela Merkel came here on July7 last year.
Haha here we come!

The traditional architecture below is a gate called Zhengyangmen, men is gate in chinese. It used to be a gate in Beijing's historic city wall and was built in 1419 during the Ming Dynasty.
We will move closer to have a look at it later. 
The building which looks like a box in the second photo is Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. Mia said it used to be a gate of the Forbidden City at that location long times ago.
Let us keep moving...

After a long path underground we finally arrived at the Tiananmen Square.
You see the Zhengyangmen over there?
If we walk through that gate to south we will be on the Qianmen Street which is a quite famous commercial street in history, it still is right now. And then are the monument to the people's heroes and Tiananmen building. The last photo is National Museum. 

Something isn't going that well today.
We were about to visit the National Museum but when we got to the entrance of the museum, our companion Amy suddenly realized that she forgot her ID at home. Ummmmm...that's not good news.
The guard won't let us get inside without ID card. So we can just change the former plan.
At least we captured these dragon heads.

Next stop: the Tiananmen tower. 
It took us a while to cross the Changan Ave, sure we walked through the underpass again and we needed to wait in line to pass the security check. The girl who holds me and Eliott in the third photo below is Amy. She is a really lovely girl but also forgetful sometimes.
Look she was wearing her hat for us.

We can't visit the National Museum today, so we decided to go for a walk outside the Forbidden City and have a look at a corner tower.
The first photo is the National Theater, do you think it looks like a giant metal egg?

Walked through Changan Ave and then turned right to the Beichangjie (jie means street in Chinese) we saw this gorgeous building at the east side of the street! The tablet on the wall indicates that this is a very valuable historic site.
Unfortunately we can't visit inside, it's not open to the public.