Travelog for: Iggy_

Hi Mom!!!
Even though motorcycle racing season is now over, we took Steves race bike up to the drag strip! Now if you remember Steve races his bike around road coarses such as Daytona, VIR, Road Atlanta ect.  He was complaining that his starts were not very good at the last race so we had the idea to take the bike up for some drag racing fun!! They had the IHRA drag racing going on with the top fuel Dragsters.  I saw the Drag cars go 200 MPH!!!  My host has never had his bike up at the drag strip and Darcie said it was going to be fun!!

Here we all are pulling into the track at the main gate. 



Here we are warming up Steves Bike while he gets his leathers on.



Here is a closer view of us on the gas tank of the GSXR 600.



We go over and get the special Race Fuel.  This is VP U4.2 you have to order it from a dealer and it is not sold at the gas station.




It is very hot out tonight so we go get a diet coke to drink!!



Here we are watching some of the cars on the drag strip.  They are super loud and very fast.




Now it is Steves turn so Darcie tucks us into his leathers and we go race down the track with him!!




They had a Junior dragster class and look at how young this little girl was!! This is her and her drag car we thought it was cool!!



Here we are on a Hayabusa 1300 cc motorcycle.  Darcie tells us this is a very unsafe and dangerous drag racing bike, because it has WAY to much power!!  This bike is very popular with the 20 year olds LOL We thought it was very cool looking!




We had chili dogs and french fries for dinner and we stayed out till about midnight.  I had a great time and hope you liked the photos!!

Love
Iggy

Hi Mom!
Today we all got in the car and drove to the Pumpkin Patch! Darcie said we can each get our own pumpkin for Halloween so we start looking to find that special one!!










We pick out our pumpkins and take them back home. We start putting up all the Halloween decorations!!





We put cobwebs on the rose bushes...dont they look scary!!


We see a spooky cemetary that only comes around in the front yard during Halloween




We hang up all the decorations on the front porch.  We like the witch that moves up and down and the dancing skeleton.


Here we are with the candy and toys that we will hand out on Halloween.  This is my other host Steve and he tries to scare us with his Saw mask.  The Saw mask is very real looking and Darcie's dogs hate it lol




well that is all for now! we are going to a Halloween cruise in with Darcies car club today! It should be lots of fun!

Love
Iggy

Hi Mom!
Last night we all got in Darcie's Spyder and drove down to Arbys for the car clubs Halloween Spooktacular cruise in.  Everyone was dressed in costumes and they also dressed up the cars.  We handed out candy to the kids.  Here are some photos of the night!

Here we are sitting on top of the Spyder.  I loved the lights and the spooky skeleton!!


Here we are with a witch and a wizard.



Here we are with my other host Steve in his werewolf costume!



Look its the cat in the hat!! lol




We find a spookey grave yard and walk around looking for candy.




Here we are with a pirate!



We pose for a picture with the Sheriff



Here we are with a Gypsy lady.



Here we are getting ready to get inside the candy bowl!



Guess who we used for a Halloween candy bag? Etwas!!! he came in very handy!!



We had a lot of fun and Darcie and Steve won *Best dressed car* we only have four more nights until Halloween!!!

Love Iggy

Hi Mom!
Today is Halloween! I am getting everything all ready for the trick or treaters that will come to the house.  We watched scary movies last night.  We saw *The Shining* *Carrie* and *Christine*.  We also made Tandoori chicken last night and carved out our pumpkins!!  Here are the photos!

First we start by cooking the black beans.



Next we get the Nan bread already to go in the oven.



Here we are cooking the rice.



Doesnt the chicken look good? This is one of Darcies favorite foods and it is a shame there are no Indian restaurants in this town!



Here we are with the completed meal...yum!!



After dinner we all go outside to start carving pumpkins.  Here we are ready to go!






First we pick out a design to carve our pumpkins with.



Next we get our special pumpkin carving tools.



Here is our finished pumpkin! Do you know what it is??





Today has been really fun and we are waiting for it to get dark outside!!! Happy Halloween mom!!

Hi Mom!
I JUST got back from South Carolina from the Marine Corps Birthday ball!!! those photos will follow shortly   Here are my photos from Halloween!! I could not take any photos of kids in costumes as most parents do not allow that here   I did have fun handing out all the candy and hanging out with the other TVs!!






Here is Darcies dog Thumper in her Devil costume!!



Here is Sombrita looking at us wondering what we are doing!! she is as small as we are!




I had a fantastic fun time and cant wait to tell you about the ball!!

Love
Iggy

Hi Mom!!!
Well I finally have rested up from the big birthday ball!!! The ball is a tradition that the Marines hold every year in honor of their birthday!! We get the car packed and drive down to another state.  We are going to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  Darcie says they never go in the summer because all the tourists FLOCK to this location and it is a big headache with traffic.  But it is winter and no one is around AND it is 75 degrees out!!  The ride down is two hours and I take a nap.  I get to the hotel and check into my room.  Since I am going to a formal event I put on my black tie dont I look nice?!



I look out my room and see the ocean.  This is what the *Grand Strand* (main road) looks like from my room





I start having some fun and Darcie tells me it is time to drink some Patron!!! This is very smooth tequila and I love how good it is! haha



Now it is dark outside and I take another picture of my view... it is very pretty!!



I go downstairs and sit down at a table with 10 other friends and Marines.




Here I am watching a movie and listening to the Commandants birthday message.




The official ball ceremony is about to start and I get so excited when I hear the band start playing!! look at these great seats we got!!  I try to be still as the color guard and Marines come out and the cermony has started!!  NOTE: the photos did not turn out as planned sorry they are not more clear.













While I wait for my fancy dinner everyone at the table wants to hold me.








It is now dinner time!! First I get a salad.



Then my main coarse of Filet Mignon wrapped in bacon, chicken, potato and veggies.





Then I get dessert, a nice piece of Marine Corps birthday cake!!



Here I am with my host Steve.  He is making a tough Marine face for you hahaha



After dinner the DJ plays music and we dance for a bit.  Everyone decides we want to go out on the town so we change clothes and go to Broadway at the beach.  There are 8 nightclubs all hooked into one! We go to Revolutions and Senor Frogs.  Even though I am not 21 I hide in Darcies purse and sneak in!! Here I am dancing!!



We stay out till 2am and I am ready for bed!!  I look out at the beautiful lights one more time......



I turn around because I hear a strange noise...... it is Darcie laughing because the big tough Marine (Steve) has had WAY to much to drink and he passes out LOLOLOL I laugh and snicker and take a photo for evidence to put on his Facebook :0



I will never ever forget getting to be the first and probabley the ONLY TV in the WORLD that gets to go to a Marine Corps birthday ball.  I met a lot of fantastic friends and had the time of my life!!

Love
Iggy

Today a new TV arrives! Her name is Rhinono and she is from China.  I introduce her to everyone and tell her she is going to have fun here! She is JUST in time for the big Thanksgiving holiday!!



I tell her she JUST missed the Marine Corps ball    maybe next time hahaha.

Love
Iggy

Happy Thanksgiving Mom!!! I know we do not celebrate Thanksgiving in Greece so this was VERY exciting for me!! We made a HUGE meal and had friends over!! I also got to see the famous Macys Thanksgiving Day parade!!! Darcie took a lot of photos but something happened with her battery and she is sooo mad she did not get all the shots of us with the big fat 15 lb turkey!!!! Here is our menu we cooked!!

Turkey, Ham, Homemade Mashed Potatoes, Cranberry sauce, Corn bread Souffle, Deviled eggs, Sweet potato casserole, stuffing, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie and Key Lime pie!!! I ate until I could not eat anymore!!!!  Plus we had a big table full of snacks for everyone to eat while the big dinner was cooking.

First we had to go shopping for a LOT of stuff!! 



Then we got out the cookbooks and started getting the recipes together! Here we are with the sweet potato casserole.  It was soooo sweet it tasted like a dessert!



We have to make a yummy cheese dip the night before so it can form the correct way in the fridge.







We get up Thanksgiving morning and have a real fun American breakfast of Trix cereal, Cinnamon toast and orange juice.




It was also Thumper the pugs 3rd birthday!!! all the dogs (including TV dogs) got to have a special meal!!!


Next we have to peel all these potatoes! Darcie says they only do homemade mashed potatoes once a year...too much work LOL



Next the big Macys Thanksgiving parade starts so we head for the front room to watch!



The parade is held every year in Manhatten, New York and is a American tradition to watch while cooking the big feast.

Here is the outside of Macys department store.  Darcie says Macys is fantastic to shop at!



It is time to move to the kitchen, as we have a lot of cooking to do but that is ok because there is a TV in the kitchen so we do not miss any of the action!



Here are the world famous Rockettes dancing and singing! They are so pretty to watch!






There are a lot of great marching bands to watch play during the parade.



The best part of the parade were the HUGE helium ballons! It would take up to 40 people to walk the ballons through the parade! here are a few of my favorite ones!









I liked this giant turkey float!!





Here is a drill team of all girls on their horses. 





The grand finale of the parade was Santa Claus!!! we loved looking at him and his reindeer as he passed by Macys!!





Yummy deviled eggs!



Here is our snack table... unfortunatley the rest of the photos did not turn out   I had a fantastic time celebrating Thanksgiving and helping out in the kitchen!! I am invited back for next year!!!! do you want to come too??

Today a new TV arrives! here she is meeting all the other TVs that are at the house!  She is a Dutch bunny named Nijntje. We all exchange stories of the other places we have visited.  Thumper listens in and is nodding her head *yes* that she wants a dog cookie 



Here we are under the Christmas tree with Darcies Disney tree skirt.  She had their last name embroidered on it and you can see Mickey and the gang decorating a tree!!



There are a TON of movies here to watch! This is what we are going to watch tonight.  The movie is called *Christmas Vacation* with Chevy Chase and it is sooooooooo funny!!



Here are Darcies favorite top three Christmas movies that we will watch this weekend.  *A Christmas story*  *Its a wonderful life* and *Miracle on 34th st*



Here we are up on the window sill with Santa and Frosty the snowman.  You see it says *let it snow* well it never snows here and my hosts want it to snow for a week straight!!



Here we are up on the fireplace mantle.  We like all the lights and the stockings.



Here we are with all the fun Christmas decorations! dont we look great!!


Here we are sitting under the tree with all the presents.  We all helped wrap them up today!!



Well mom I am going to go play Xbox with Steve and then go to bed.  I will write again real soon!!

PS... Darcie wants to know if you can send her some Baklava?? LOL its her favorite and very hard to get here!! 

Love
Iggy

Hi mom!
Today Darcie got two envelopes.  The envelopes were from California.  Inside the envelopes were five TVs that needed to be rescued!!.  I was happy to see some new friends and we sat around and talked!!  Tonight we had Pepperoni Pizza for dinner.  Here is our big gang of TVs minus two rescues who were sleeping in the next room 



We are now watching a Christmas movie every night!! Tonight we watched *Christmas with the Kranks* it was really funny!!



I am going to go get some hot cocoa and look at the Christmas lights!!!

Hi mom!
Tonight we are doing a easy dinner.  Fishsticks and french fries!!





We eat dinner and everyone agrees that this was very yummy! we then bake some Blueberry Muffins.



We then all gather by the Christmas tree.  We love to look at the lights and we go around in a circle and talk about what kind of customs and traditions each of our own Country has.  It is fun to be in a different country and see how they decorate, display the ornaments, hang stockings and burn yummy smelling Yankee Candles.



We want to watch a musical tonight so we go and get Darcies favorite one of all time *Sound of Music* filmed in beautiful Austria!!

Darcie starts singing...........

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad 

Hi Mom!!!

Yesterday me and the other TVs went down to Wilmington.  Darcie's car club was meeting up and then went to a senior rest home to deliver Christmas Presents.  We were suppose to take the Porsche but it was raining!!! The Porsche does not have a top so we would of gotten soaked!! The rain really ruined the entire day but we still had a fun time.  While we were at the rest home a new TV asked if he could join our gang.  His name is Tuffy and he is now a official TV.  We went to McDonalds for lunch.  Here we are with our Happy Meal




Inside the Happy Meal is a horse from the new movie *Avatar* he hears all of us outside eating and talking so he jumps out.  He is very strange looking and he has six hooves!



We introduce everyone to him and he asks if he can join us for lunch.  We say yes and we start sharing our traveling stories with him.



We finish our lunch and when we get home Darcie says that Snuttig's mom has sent some beautiful and delicious chocolates and a beautiful postcard of Gratz, Austria where Snuttig is from. Dont we all look cute with our Santa hats on?



Next Snuttig lays down and starts pointing and explaining all the beautiful pictures of Gratz and tells us about each place that is pictured.  We love our history lesson and we are also trying to figure out how to get the chocolate!!



Snuttig sees we are trying to take all the Chocolate and he grabs a hold of the bag and pulls with all his bear strength and rescues it for Darcie to eat!!



Well mom that is about it for now.  We are busy wrapping presents and getting ready for Christmas to arrive!!!  hope you are well!!

Hi Mom!!!!
It is Christmas eve!!!  Today Darcie showed us some of her Vintage Christmas books.  She loves the 1950s and had some wonderful things to read about.  First though we want to bake something so we make some Orange/Cranberry muffins and put butter on them! They are sooo good! Do you like our Santa hats? 



Next we get on the floor and start looking at the books...this one has old decorations from 1930-1960 and the photos are great!



Here we are with a few more oldies from the 1950s.



We decide to sing Christmas carols.  We start off with *Santa Claus is coming to town*



Here we are with a book called *Its a wonderful Christmas!*  it is filled with all the old toys from the 1950s.  They sure had some neat things!!



Here we are with the Christmas card holder.  I do not know if you can see it, but the card holders are shaped like Mickey Mouse!! Darcie is a big Disney fan!



Today we went to a store called Lowes.  It is a HUGE store that you can buy things for your house.  Darcie had to get some replacement bulbs but then discovered all the Christmas stuff was 75% off!!! we bought a Cinderella Advent Calender that talks, Winnie, Piglet and Tigger singing and moving toy and a Santa Claus that sings *Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer*  tonight we are making Enchiladas and Darcie showed us this really cool website!! It is called Santa Tracker!!  www.santanorad.org  please go look at it because it is sooooo much fun! We started tracking him last night when he took off from the North Pole.  He flew to Australia, then off to Russia and India.  He was last spotted flying around the Taj Mahal (see videos of all his stops)  we cant WAIT for him to arrive with all the presents!!!  Go Santa Go!!! 

Darcies husband will be happy to see all the Motorcycle stuff for next race season!! boy is that stuff expensive!!!  well mom I am going to go eat some more candy and play Xbox!!! 

Merry Christmas!!

Hi Mom!
Christmas was a lot of fun!!! we started the day with snuggling up on the couch before our host woke up.  We wanted to look at all the gifts that Santa had brought! Here we are under the nice warm blanket at 5:30 am!!



We go over to the fireplace and see the presents that santa has left as stocking stuffers.  In America everyone hangs a stocking and it gets filled with small gifts and candy.  Looks like Santa also leaves things for dogs! He left all kinds of treats and toys for the two host dogs  



Of course he also left us some nice candy! Here we are with a gift card to Starbucks Coffee house, a gift card to Red Robin hamburger shop, Skittles, orange flavored chocolate and Reeses peanut butter cups!! Y U M!!



Next we help Darcie open some presents.  Here are just a few of her favorites! she loves old 1950-1960s TV shows.  Here is season one of *Bewitched* it is a show about a woman who is a witch and is married to a regular man.  It is VERY funny!!





Here we are with four more shows from the 1950s-1960s.  They are called *I married Joan* *Father knows best* *Petticoat Junction* and *The Donna Reed show*






Next we open really nice smelling bath products!! Here is stuff from the Bath and Body works store! Nutcracker bubble bath,  Candy apple body spray,  Ed Hardy perfume and Pear Glaze body lotion! it all smells so good!




Next is a wonderful gift! a *Twilight* duffle bag and the *New Moon* soundtrack!!



We have a wonderful day watching movies and eating candy and talking about Christmas!! I had a great time and will never forget it!! I hope you had a Merry Christmas and hope you have a Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Years Mom!!! I hope you had fun on New Years!! we stayed home and made a bunch of drinks and watched movies all night long!!  Here we are with all of our alchohol LOL



Here we are with very expensive Tequila.  This is called Patron and it is very smooth! we all drank a few shots and then licked some salt then ate a small piece of lemon



Here we are with our shot glasses from around the world.  There are two in the photo.  One is from Kaiserslautern, Germany.  The other is from Holland.



We follow the Television all day.  We watch Time Square in New York City.  People start arriving at 6am to secure a spot.  Then they have to wait ALL DAY till midnight comes.  Darcie has done it one time and says the crowds are HUGE.



The reporter checks in a few hours later and it is SNOWING!!! the police work hard to barracade off the roads and set up everything for the big ball drop.



Here it is later in the evening.....we are waiting and waiting!!!



Now it is 9:00 pm so I know that overseas has just struck 12am!! Here is a beautiful shot of places around the world that were celebrating the New Year.



We took a bunch of photos at Midnight, but the flash went off on the TV and messed everything up! we still had a great time and wished each other a Happy Traveling 2010!!!