Helgoland, Germany - 24th April 2009
By: RikeH
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Posted Apr 28, 2009, 10:04 am Last edited Apr 28, 2009, 10:44 am by RikeH
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Sülfeld, Germany - 25th April 2009
By: RikeH
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Posted Apr 28, 2009, 10:43 am Last edited Apr 29, 2009, 12:39 pm by RikeH
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Sülfeld, Germany - 27th April 2009
By: RikeH
In the afternoon a new TV called Murph arrived.
He is very funny - and we talked until deep in the night.
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Posted Apr 30, 2009, 1:25 pm
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Sülfeld, Germany - 30th April 2009
By: RikeH
Hi Mum,
yesterday Miily left us, to went home to her Mum.
And today I will start to my next adventure. But I am happy, because BineHH will come with me. So we can spend more time together, and the trip to Japan will be funny.
I really liked the time here in Germany.
Bye Polki
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Posted Apr 30, 2009, 1:29 pm Last edited May 20, 2009, 12:57 pm by RikeH
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Okinawa, Japan - 27th May 2009
By: JaymeC
Dear Mommy,
Its been very, very rainy. And a bit hectic as Jayme's boys keep wanting to play! Today the weather cleared up for a few minutes, so we headed to the pool for awhile! Here I am next to the pool. See that slide in the background? Jayme's 2 year old went down it and came out head first, it was really funny.
Me and the other toys rested for awhile on the towel. Next to us is Jayme's husband being silly.
And here we are by the baby pools. They're small ones for the toddlers, very nice.
Hopefully we'll go do more fun stuff soon! The weather forcast says rainy, but we're all crossing our fingers it will be wrong
Polki
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Posted May 27, 2009, 6:17 am
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Okinawa, Japan - 3rd June 2009
By: JaymeC
Dear Mommy,
We've had no end to bad luck here! First it was rainy, rainy, rainy. The sun came out and Jayme thought it was very lucky as she and her husband had a date scheduled that day to go ziplining, but then Jayme hurt her back while she was ziplining and has been trying to lay down and give it rest since. She's still hurting a bit, but can get up and move around much more easily now. Then the rain started again. Agh! Would we never escape the house? We did get out to go watch Night at the Museum 2, which was a very funny movie! Unfortunately pictures don't work well in a movie theatre And then finally we woke up one day... and we could almost see the sun through the clouds! Jayme said it was as close to a sunny day as we were going to get, and the kids needed some exercise so out we went.
We ended up at Kurashiki Dam. Here you can see it from the top.
We went on down to get a closer look. The children liked playing in the water here, its only about knee deep on an adult so they can splash and play and its not very dangerous. They also like climbing up and down the little rock waterfall. Its a very popular place in the summer to cool down. Here we are sitting on some rocks in the water.
After awhile we retreated back to the shore. Usually Jayme says they'd sit here and have a picnic, but unfortunately the clouds came back.
We're all hoping the sun comes out to play for a longer time this weekend so we can do something fun!
More updates soon,
Polki
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Posted Jun 3, 2009, 11:01 am
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Okinawa, Japan - 25th June 2009
By: JaymeC
Dear Mommy,
We were very busy for a few days. First our host's husband had to prepare for some special training and we all were helping him pack. He had to pack up all his gear and put it into water tight packing, including extra clothes and what not.
First he had to do swim qualifying with all of his gear on, that's a lot to carry while swimming! Then he had to go into a contraption that's like the inside of a helicopter and escape blindfolded. We weren't able to go and get pictures, but our host showed us this so we knew what he was up to.
Then of course he had to get out and call Jayme and tell her he was okay because she was quite worried! Since Jayme wanted a bit of a distraction we went off to the zoo for a bit. Its a very small zoo without too many animals, but it was nice to get out a bit and the weather behaved!
They had a viewer here we went to check out
Then we realized we didn't need one. They were having a dodgeball tournament at the zoo. How interesting!
We also got to check out a few statues of animals, and I was beginning to wonder if we'd get to see any animals!
Finally we got to the animals exhibits. They were very anxious, it must've been about feeding time.
We got home to a surprise, Jayme's husband was home safe and sound and just a little wetter for his training. He also had a surprise. He had stopped by the mail on the way home.. and come home with a gift he'd ordered awhile ago for Jayme. Isn't it neat? Its a e-reader made by amazon. Jayme loves reading, and now she can download books whenever she wants. We had some fun checking it out.
Finally, since it was Father's Day in the US we had a bit of a celebration. We had some cake
And the children gave their daddy a nice little poem with their handprints and footprints.
More adventures soon I'm sure,
Polki
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Posted Jun 25, 2009, 6:44 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 14th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived in Germany today. You will see more of me tomorrow.
Love
Polki
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Posted Jul 14, 2009, 8:41 pm
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Wuppertal, Germany - 15th July 2009
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
we went to Wuppertal today. Wuppertal is one of the neighbour cities. Katja had to buy a few things at Hornbach, her favourite DIY-store. She had to make a new interior for her large rat cage.
Afterwards we went to the Botanical Garden. Wuppertal is situated, like the name already says, at the river Wupper, along a deep valley with the city centre in the valley itself, large parts on the steep slopes of the valley.
You can find the Botanical Garden on a very high point, overlooking the city centre in the valley. In 1890 it was a school garden first. Later, in 1908 a textile industrialist built his country house here, the "Eller'sche Villa". Later the Elisenturm Elisen Tower) was also built here, which is now the focal point of the garden. Since 1929 it is a municipal garden, open daily.
This is the Elisenturm.
First we entered the tower and enjoyed the fantastic overview.
Here you can see the new greenhouses, they were built in 2006.
We went to the greenhouses than. Here you can see plants from the warmer parts of the world, like palms.
We went into the garden than. I saw lots of pretty flowers and interesting trees, also the former country house.
I saw these pretty flowers, their colour fitting perfectly to my beak
This bed is showing typical plants of a moor area, also insect-eating plants.
Here we are sitting in front of a thistle.
I also saw a plant with vast leafs. I used one of the leafs as a swing, together with UrselHH.
Back home we helped to install the new things to the rat cage. I will show it to you soon.
Bye
Polki
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Posted Jul 16, 2009, 11:22 am
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