Richlands, North Carolina, usa - 3rd February 2009
By: Pixiedustlady
Hi Mom!
Sunday I had a Super Bowl Party with Percy the owl and Darcie. Darcie is a bit sad right now because her husband is stuck over in Germany and did not make it home last week due to a mechanical issue. Anyways me and Percy another Toy Voyager have been trying to cheer her up and making her laugh. The football game was excellent and it was The Pittsburgh Steelers vs the Arizona Cardinals. Darcie said it was the BEST Superbowl game she ever saw!! the commercials were soooo funny! We took a vote and everyones favorite was the Pedigree pet commercial! Me and Percy had a big feast. We cooked Hot Wings with Budweiser hot wing sauce, Mozzarella cheese sticks, Baked Potato skins with cheese and sour cream and we drank a LOT of Corona Beer!! Dont worry I am being a good duck!! Here are photos of me and Percy and of our feast and of the game!! The last photo is Ben Roethlisberger who is the Quarterback for the Steelers. He played a flawless game!! The Super Bowl is as important to the US as The World Cup is to Europe!!
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Posted Feb 3, 2009, 5:32 pm
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Rome , Italy - 11th February 2009
By: Pixiedustlady
Hi Mom!!
Just went to El Camino Real for some good Mexican food and then I helped drink a HUGE Margarita!! Darcie's husband is now home and guess where WE are going tommorro? We are going to Rome, Italy for a week!!! I will be going with another TV and we plan on visiting all the old ancient sites and taking LOTS of photos! I want to go shopping at Dolce Gabbana, Prada, Fendi, Gucci ect. Well I have to get my bags packed, we leave tommorro at around lunch time for our big adventure!!!
Ciao~
Bertie
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Posted Feb 11, 2009, 9:42 pm
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Rome, Italy - 13th February 2009
By: Pixiedustlady
Hi Mom!!
I am back from Rome, Italy and boy did I have a fantastic time! I spent a week seeing all the sites with another TV named Percy. Our trip started with seats in First Class!! I had a seat that went all the way down into a bed and I watched lots of movies and had wonderful food and lots of Margaritas! I stayed at Hotel Homs, Via Della Vite street, which is located in North Rome, right in the middle of all the action. I took a TON of photos and will explain them all to you below! The weather was nice and cool and their was not a ton of tourists so it made for easy navigation through the city. I especially liked the fountains since I am a Duck!! Here are my photos from my big trip!
Here I am with Percy getting ready to take off out of Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania. We had to fly from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Philadelphia then to Rome.
Here I am with Percy getting ready to land at Leonardo da Vinci - Fiumicino Airport! We were sooo excited to get on with our adventure!
We got in a cab and it usually only takes 20 minutes to get to the hotel BUT today they were having a demonstration/Protest of some sort and our poor cab driver had to find a way to get to Old Roma where our hotel was!! we had the WILDEST ride!! most roads were blocked off and our cab driver got in many arguments with the Police hahaha it was fun listening to him yell back and forth in Italian and we picked up a few new phrases of our own! The cab driver finally got sooo mad he drove right through the DO NOT CROSS tape and got us to our hotel in one frazzled piece!! I will never forget that ride!
Our next stop was to take a walk down the cobble stone streets and get some food! Darcie said this was the BEST sauce she had ever tasted!! The food was soooo good compared to the Italian food in the US. Here we are having Rigatoni Pompodore with fresh Mozarella and wine!
Our hotel was situated right next to Piazza De Spanga (The Spanish Steps) here we are at The Spanish steps. Everyday people would gather up this fantastic staircase and sit down and rest and have some Gelatto or drink some beer. We loved the people watching and the people loved watching us!
After the steps we were very jet lagged so we went back to the hotel for a rest. Here we are at our first Italian dinner! and guess what we had? Yep Pizza!! The pizza is very different then the stuff they serve in the US. This was way better as the tomato's are grown here and they taste way better and the cheese was out of this world! Steve (Darcie's husband) LOVED the local beer, which was Nastro Azzuro, here we are with a photo of our glass of beer and our pizza.
Every morning we would head to the McDonalds. This McDonalds was stunning and Darcie could not believe they had a pastry shop downstairs!!! This was always open early (most places didnt open till 9am) so every morning we would pick out a pastry and a nice big cup of fresh Capuchino. Here we are picking out our breakfast for the day.
The next day we went to the National Musuem of Rome. This was a fantastic collection of statues from all around Rome. Here we are with Brutus, he is the man who killed Julius Ceaser. We had fun reading all about the different people and seeing all the history.
Here we are with Hercules, he was much bigger then we were!
After the Museum we went to Vatican City!!!! first we stopped for some wonderful lunch!! Here we are with Pasta Carbonera, which is cream, cheese and bacon with pasta.. it was beyond fantastic tasting!!!
Here we are in the Vatican courtyard. The Vatican is the worlds smallest country. They did not allow a lot of photos. The best part of the tour was inside the Cistine Chapel. This is the worlds prettiest church and this is the painting that Michaelangelo did on the ceiling. No photos were allowed but you can see it if you Google it. We had a fantastic history lesson from our tour guide and we learned a lot!
This is us inside the Vatican and we are sitting on a bath tub!!! look how big it is!!!
After our tour inside the Vatican we went outside to St. Peters Square. This is shown on TV a lot and it was HUGE HUGE HUGE! Here we are with St Peters church in the background. Look at all the statues on top!!
After the Vatican we were really hungry and tired. We took the Metro back to our hotel for a nap then we went to our favorite place to eat which is called Ciros. We ate at many places but this one was the best! Here we are with our Anti Pasta... lots of different things such as cheese, ham, Bruscella ect ect and it was all sooooooooo good!
Every night we would stop at The Gelateria where they sell Gelatto... yep we ate it every single night!1 it was a fantastic treat!! here we are deciding what kind to get!!
The following day we spent at The Colosseum and Roman Forum. All the old ruins are fantastic to see!! Here we are at the Colosseum.
Here we are inside the Colosseum, we had a long discussion on how great it would of been to sit with the other 50,000 fans watching the Gladiators fight!!
We walked around and then stopped for directions to see more of the Colosseum.
We stopped for a quick lunch at McDonalds before heading over to Palantine Hill and the Roman Forum.
Next we went to the Roman Forum, there are a lot of ruins that looked the same over and over so we just got one good shot of us at Circus Maximus!! This is where they used to do chariot racing and must of been way cool back in the day!!
After a long day we got a piece of Darcie's favorite Tiramisu (Italian wedding cake) and some Gelatto and watched a bit of Italian soccer on TV.
The next few days was shopping and visiting the Trevi Fountain, The Patheon and basically strolling around before we had to leave!! Here we are at the Trevi Fountain.
Here we are inside the Patheon, this ceiling was AMAZING!!!
The best part of the trip was the SHOPPING!!! We were 100 feet from Via Del Corso which had Versace, Gucci, Dolce and Gabbana, Fendi ect ect Darcie went crazy!! here we are outside the Gucci store.
Here we are with all our shopping bags! Also we went with Steve to get Dolce Gabbana silk boxers! we each got a pair!! hahaha
We went to a Irish Pub to watch the six Nations Cup! Ireland was playing Italy and we were pulling for Ireland to win and they did!! we drank Guiness with Steve!
Then we stopped for a snack... we were always eating and drinking!!
Here we are at the private first class lounge at the airport getting ready to go home.... we had sweet rolls and more Cappucino!!
Darcie pulled off a miracle!!! since we were in first class she went up to the flight deck before take off.. guess what??? WE GOT TO FLY THE PLANE HOME!!!!!!!!! here we are in the cockpit with the pilots!!
After a few hours we wanted a rest... here we are in our seats.. I had a fantastic time mom and I hope you like the photos!!!
Ciao!
Bertie
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Posted Feb 22, 2009, 4:13 pm
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Richlands NC, USA - 16th March 2009
By: Pixiedustlady
Hi Mom!
I just got word that I am leaving tommorro for Germany. I am having my last night here at Darcie's house, eating a pizza with the other toys and sharing stories. I am flying out first thing in the morning and Im lucky I am green because it is St. Patricks Day!! Well I need to go get my bags packed!! I will write once I get settled in!!
Love
Bertie
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Posted Mar 16, 2009, 11:53 pm
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Merzig, Germany - 30th March 2009
By: Apperveilchen
I arrived in Germany! My host is very busy with work these days and a bit sick, so we have to wait and take pictures later. I have some other tvs to keep my company, though.
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Posted Apr 2, 2009, 8:18 pm
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University, Germany - 2nd April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
We went to university today and it was a great day.
Here's us in one of the study rooms. It was empty because the lectures and classes haven't started, yet. For the hard work we got rewarded with an ice-coffee. Yum!
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Posted Apr 2, 2009, 8:11 pm
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg - 7th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
Today we drove to Luxembourg to refill the car and run some errands in Luxembourg city. Unfortunately we didn't have a camera with us. But more important was the audio book because we got into the late rush hour on the way back.
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Posted Apr 7, 2009, 8:00 pm
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Essen, Germany - 10th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
It was a very sunny day today and a holiday called Karfeitag, which is the friday before Easter, so SaruMaru, Iggy and I just lazed around in the sun. I got bored after a while and tried to get started early on finding some easter eggs in the garden.
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Posted Apr 15, 2009, 5:31 pm
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Essen, Germany - 11th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
There's a party tonight and we spent most of the day preparing the house for it and making food and shopping. Here's the result of our cooking:
tomato-mozarelly-basil snacks; freshly cut carrots, peppers, cucumbers and kohlrabi with dip, filled peppers, cheese and fresh fruit, dates wrapped in bacon, olives, bread, avocado dip, bread and French and Lebanese style meat balls (filled with herbes de Provence and goat cheese, or with raisins, roasted pignolia and cinnamon). I couldn't get pictures of the cocktails. I was too 'happy'.
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Posted Apr 15, 2009, 5:32 pm
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Essen, Germany - 12th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
Happy Easter!
Look how many eggs we found! I am just happy that they are all hicken eggs and not duck eggs. I tried to incubate a few, but apparently these didn't have any embryos in them. People here also paint eggs for Easter.
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Posted Apr 15, 2009, 5:19 pm
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Sprockhövel, Germany - 13th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
Today we went for a long walk in the early afternoon. It was awarm and partially sunny but there was a lot of fog. Maybe that's because we are still waiting for a good thunderstorm. I took some pictures anyway, with spring flowers and the early blooming trees in the fog. Everything is getting very green here. That'S fine with me, it fits my coloring.
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Posted Apr 15, 2009, 5:25 pm
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Freisenbruch, Germany - 14th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
We visited a residential area today. Aren't the gardens beautiful with the spring flowers and very green and soft grass? As you can see on the big thermometer we had 21°C, warm enough to have lunch outside. Can you find all of us in the apple trees?
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Posted Apr 15, 2009, 8:17 pm
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Brohltal, Germany - 14th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
We stopped along the Autobahn on our way south. Do you see the castle ruin on the hill in the background? And we had a look into the beautiful Brohltal (Brohl valley). The better view is from the bridge, but we couldn't stop there to take a picture.
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Posted Apr 15, 2009, 8:28 pm
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Völklingen, Germany - 17th April 2009
By: Apperveilchen
We had an errand to run in a city called Völklingen, home of the UNESCO World Heritage site: Völklingen ironworks. We only took a quick picture, though and bought some cookies and other essentials at the big Globus supermarket.
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Posted Apr 17, 2009, 5:58 pm
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