Grand Junction, CO, USA - 19th May 2008
By: wourpet
After we unloaded the plants out of the truck Wourpet said she had a surprise to show us.
She showed us a picture on her camera of some little baby Robins that have just hatched.
She said if we were very quick and very quiet and didn't touch anything she would let us have a peek into the nest to see the babies.
They were so cute. After I got down from the tree I saw some ducks that also have a nest in the garden.
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Posted May 20, 2008, 4:27 am
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Grand Junction, Colorado, USA - 1st June 2008
By: wourpet
Today I got to help in the shop and I worked with the laser. I even got to go right inside while it was working but I only stayed in there a little while because of the invisble laser radiation.
I watched it cut the shapes and it was really quite interesting.
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Posted Jun 7, 2008, 7:07 am
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Grand Junction, Colorado, USA - 6th June 2008
By: wourpet
Today is my last day in Colorado. I went for a walk around the yard to remember some of the attractions I saw, the TVs I met and the things I did while I was here.
I stopped to smell the roses, (really I did) and thought it quite lovely that you could see the flat mountain in the distance. I was on top of that mountain when we went up to the lake.
I finished up my book and asked wourpet for a stamp to put on the page with all my pictures. She gave me a Forever stamp. I said its a strange name for a stamp but she said its because there is no price on them. So they are good 'forever'.
I'm going to get some sleep now because in the morning I leave for Miami, Florida.
I'll be flying USPS and my ticket number is 0103 8555 7494 0778 6092
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Posted Jun 7, 2008, 7:13 am Last edited Jun 7, 2008, 7:18 am by wourpet
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Miami, Florida, USA - 12th June 2008
By: carlissa
I have arrived in Miami, Florida! It's been raining all day here, so I haven't gotten any pictures yet.
There are lots of Toy Voyagers here and I've made some friends already!
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Posted Jun 13, 2008, 11:58 am
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Coral Gables, Florida, USA - 21st June 2008
By: carlissa
It has been raining all week! Finally, it cleared up enough so we could go out for a little while. We went to see some giant shoes in the middle of Cartagena Circle in Coral Gables. The shoe statue is a replica of a statue made by Tito Lambrano in Cartagena, Colombia.
We had lots of fun playing on the shoes!
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Posted Jun 22, 2008, 2:50 am
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Miami, Florida, USA - 4th July 2008
By: carlissa
Today is Independence Day in the United States! Our host told us that there would be a fireworks show tonight and she had gotten us some sparklers!
After the sparklers, it started to rain, so we had to go inside. We were able to see some of the fireworks show from the window though and it was a spectacular show! I wish we could have gotten some pictures of it.
Our host also showed us a webpage that has fireworks that we can do with Lady Liberty
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Posted Jul 5, 2008, 10:41 pm
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Miami, Florida, USA - 8th July 2008
By: carlissa
Tonight Nicki Bear and I went out to dinner at The Melting Pot. We had Swiss cheese fondue for dinner and chocolate fondue with Irish Creme for dessert. The meal was absolutely delicious!
When we got home, my host helped me find a recipe for fondue so I can make it myself sometime and here are the links for what we found:
cheese chocolate
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Posted Jul 8, 2008, 7:29 pm
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Miami, Florida, USA - 15th July 2008
By: carlissa
I have enjoyed my stay in Miami, but it's time to travel onward! I am now on my way to Australia!
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Posted Jul 15, 2008, 4:34 pm
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Orange, New South Wales, Australia - 24th July 2008
By: sararingham
I've finally arrived down in Australia. It's quite a rainy and dark day outside so Sara decided to introduce me to all the inhabitants of my little temporary home... :-)
First things first, when I got taken out of the bag I noticed a little... well, not so little dog approach me and sniff me. I wonder what she was thinking. Sara said it's her 14 week old puppy they called Anni. She's a beagle and she's quite noisy sometimes Sara says...
...then I got to see the mice... the cage really needs a clean but the mice are all sleeping right now so I didn't see much but their food dish which looked really destroyed at the moment. Whoops... hehe, I'm sure I'll see them later on, there are 5 of them. :-)
...moving on, I then got introduced to the fish... Sara breeds a few types of fish, mainly live bearing fish like guppies, platties and sword tails. Some of them are really small, Sara says they must have been stunted a bit because of being in the "baby net" for probably longer than they were supposed to. But it was mostly fear of having them being eaten still by the bigger fish in the tank. They have a huge suckerfish that is at minimum probably 6 inches long! Crazy!
...and then last but not least I got to visit the birds. Sara has more than 30 or so birds in her kitchen, it includes mostly types of Australian finches, but she also has a few diamond doves (smallest dove in the world - which isn't much bigger than a finch) and a few button quails at the bottom... on the swing near me is a gouldian finch, they live in the rainforests of Queensland (at the top of Australia). They're pretty endangered because of how colorful they are, as well as their habitat is disappearing. Sara also has star finches, zebra finches, spice finches, owl finches, obviously more gouldian finches... they're quite fun to listen to, the different songs. Very pretty aren't they?
...and just as I was going to lay down on the lounge for a bit of a rest after my long journey I got introduced to the current TV's that are visiting with Sara... from left to right it's Hermies which is actually one of Sara's TV's about to travel around the people in her community, he's new to toyvoyagers... then there's Misko from Slovenia, 87518 from Illinois, KattieMill from Hong Kong and SebastienLGreen from Pennsylvania. Sadly I'm not going to get too much of an introduction with 87518 and SebastienLGreen as they're going to Queensland tomorrow.... and KattieMill will soon be on her way to Victoria. But I've heard a few more TV's are coming Sara's way soon, I wonder who I'll get to meet and what I'll get to see. Quite exciting isn't it?
Write again soon mommy! <3
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Posted Jul 24, 2008, 7:44 am
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Orange, New South Wales, Australia - 30th July 2008
By: sararingham
Today it's pretty sunny outside so Sara decided to take us along to something "historical" in Orange... there's a lot of historical buildings but nothing too very interesting anyways... so, we took a short drive, and before we knew it we were there... Banjo Pattersons Birth Place...
Here's the memorial of Banjo before you enter the park... :-)
...so who is Banjo Patterson? He's the famous guy that wrote a famous poem called 'Waltzing Matilda'... and he's on the back of the $10.00 Australian bank note... so he must be really quite famous... here's the famous poem that he wrote...
Waltzing Matilda
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up got the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Down came the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,
Up came the troopers, one, two, three,
"Who's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?"
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
"Who's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?",
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Up got the swagman and jumped into the billabong,
"You'll never catch me alive", said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
"Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
"Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"
Anyways, his house is no longer here, but the Templer's Mill is, that was right near where he was born and raised and in 1971 sadly the Templer's Mill was demolished since it was deemed unsafe for people to go near or in...
Here we are sitting on the bricks and remains of the Templer's Mill... can you see us?
...see here we are... :-)
Here's a bit of information about the Templer's Mill...
Well it was time to move on... this is me with the landscape around the area where I'm currently visiting...
...as you can plainly see it's very dry, even though it very occassionally rains it surely doesn't rain very often... and there are LOTS of cows and sheep!
I'll write again soon! <3
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Posted Jul 30, 2008, 9:10 am
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Orange, New South Wales, Australia - 4th August 2008
By: sararingham
Well today was a big day, we got some mystery shops done with Sara - which wasn't really picture worthy, but when we came home we helped Sara make a cake... I wonder why? Well Sara wasn't thinking and didn't remember to take photos, but instead we got to decorate the cake... although we didn't have much we used some gummy worms and spelled out "Dan" which is her husbands name...
So we finally figured it out - it must be Daniel's birthday! Happy Birthday Daniel! The cake was SO yummy!
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Posted Aug 7, 2008, 8:34 am
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Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia - 6th August 2008
By: sararingham
Today was a very busy day... we got woken up very early and got in the car - we were on our way to Bathurst. We had four mystery shops to do, again, not really picture worthy so no photos were taken of that... but for us waiting in the car to not get lost we got a bit of a treat. We got to visit the famous Mount Panorama... a very famous race track that is used throughout the year, but you can drive on it and many people do drive on it to get to their homes (as a shortcut). During October it's EXTREMELY busy as the races are in the beginning of October. They're already preparing for the races, and it's only August...
...here I am standing at the famous sign that's on the side of the 'mountain'...
...and here's a close up of the famous sign...
...here is some information about the track, a sign showing what the track looks like - and then a bit of information about the race track...
...and now it's time to get on the track, we drove around it counter-clockwise which is the same direction as the v8 cars that drive around it... now here's a whole bunch of photos as we are going around the track. :-)
...and as were coming back around here's the starting gate...
...and here's what you see as you're leaving the race track. :-) As you can probably tell there is a lot of people that drive around the track, it seems like a big reason to come to the Central West... anytime but race time... race time it's extremely busy, even in Orange - which is around 55kms drive from Bathurst... and even farther than that...
...now it's time to get all the stuff done... here's William Street the main street of Bathurst as were about to go down it, as you can see it looks like a small town but it's actually got around 40,000 or so people in it - so definitely not a city but a nice little "country town".
...after we were done doing all the mystery shops we pulled over quite suddenly, I wonder why? Well... of course Sara decided to pull over and show us a famous Australian sight... kangaroos...
...as you can see them in the background we had to keep our distance but Sara got a lot closer and got some better shots of them for us... :-)
Well I hope you enjoyed our trip to Bathurst! It was quite exciting - we're going back next Friday - and were going to visit the fossil museum, Sara's been itching to visit it for quite some time... I'll write again soon... :-)
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Posted Aug 7, 2008, 9:28 am Last edited Aug 7, 2008, 9:32 am by sararingham
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