Travelog for: Mercury

An envelope arrived in April and we were curious to find out what was inside of it. Soon two small sheep came out of the envelope and told us that they are Shauns (Shaun Green and Shaun Blue) from Czech Republic, they are TVs too They gave us candies and showed us a postcard of their hometown. We talked a little and then we went out, because Shauns wanted to see some snow and ice. That was the last time we saw any snow here

We went to café for a latte, the first Finnish one for Shauns. We talked there and got to know Shauns a bit better. We also wrote a postcard together, but only one this time.

Hi Mom,

Here I am again We had a nice trip to the Central Finland, but now we're back in Helsinki again.

Here in Finland you have to use snow tyres in winter time. One spring day we helped our host's boyfriend to change the snow tyres to summer tyres. It was a hard job, but we did it. We did it in Myllypuro, a place where a friend of our host lives. She had a nice mailbox After the job we got a huge hamburger meal at McDonald's

Here you can see some pictures of the postcrossing meetings where I have been. We have wrote a few postcards there with our friends

May Day is a big happening here in Finland. We had a party and we got some donuts and quite strange Finnish baked goods called Tippaleipä. They looked funny, but tasted delicious

The next day we went to visit my host's friends about 10 kilometres from the city. We went there by bus There was a great Japanese garden and we wanted to have our picture taken with the dragon. After that trip we got a big bowl of ice cream at home

And talkink about ice cream - they opened a Ben & Jerry's ice cream bar here and of course we went there to have some delicious ice cream We sat there on a park, trees are green here again

One Sunday we were walking around and saw the Parliament House of Finland. It sure is as big and impressive building as I remembered. We walked to the Olympic Stadium - and went to the tower of it. The views from there were just amazing

Last week we visited our host's mother in the Central Finland. Her garden was beautiful, apple trees were blossoming and there were many wonderful flowers there too. We spent a lot of time outside and the weather was fine, sunny and quite warm mostly. Nights are getting shorter here again, it was dark only for a few hours.

We went by the Lake Lievestuore. My host Kirsi and Manu the Duck went swimming, but I thought the water was too cold and stayed on the beach. The week we spent there was relaxing and we had fun there. We also took a nap almost every day and I climbed up to trees too

We also visited a place called Naissaari (Woman Island) and there we enjoyed the views by walking around. There was a lake too - Finland is known as a country of thousands of lakes - and I've seen many of them by now

Today was a bit sad day - Molly left Finland and started her journey to Ireland. We went to the café of the main post office for a latte for the last time all together. We gave Molly lots of hugs and kisses, then she went away to the post office...

Our host promised we'll do something nice tomorrow and hopefully it will cheer us up again. She said we might even get another girl toy here with us soon - that would be nice

I felt sad and miserable in the evening My host noticed it and she showed me some pictures and stories of my brother Mystery from her computer. Oh, I miss him so much, but it seems like he is having really good time. I just wonder when we'll meet again...

Mom, is it OK if I'll come back home soon? Or are there some other places where I'm going before coming home?

Hi Mom,

I'm still here in Helsinki. Everything is fine and I had a wonderful summer. It was really hot here and sunny for months.

We got a new toy friend in the beginning of summer. Her name is K-Bear and she is really nice and cute We went to Ben & Jerry's with her. She'll be a toyvoyager soon too.

In the summertime we had our evening tea/coffee at the balcony. It was too hot to stay inside. Sometimes we had delicious Finnish cinnamon buns called korvapuusti. Sometimes we ate cherries or strawberries...

My host bought a book called Wreck this journal and we helpod her to wreck it - that was so fun and we enjoyed it a lot.

We have also been in many postcrossing meetings and in these photos we are in a meeting together with Delenna's toyvoyagers. It was nice to meet some new toys.

Last week Henrik's twin brother Tapio moved here and he'll travel to the USA next week. My host just told me that I'll travel back home next week too. Yey, I'm so happy, but a bit sad at the same time. It will be great to see my home forest again, but I know that I'll miss Finland and my new friends very much.

Tomorrow morning we all are going to a postcrossing breakfast meeting and after that we'll have a small party here.

See you soon Mom

Hi Mom,

When you're reading this I'm already on my way back to home My host Kirsi promised to update this travelog on behalf of me. See you soon Mom

Last Sunday we all were in a postcrossing breakfast meeting and had fun as always in the meetings. We had a few toy guests there too.

After the meeting we went for a walk and enjoyed the last autumn views. Winter is coming here soon...

On Monday we had a small party at home, because so many TVs were leaving us. We had some delicious cinnamon buns again - they are Mercury's favourites

On Tuesday we went to a café for a latte and met our friend.

Today we spent some time in the main post office and had our last latte there together. Then it was time to say goodbye... We re going to miss Mercury here, but at the same time we are happy we got to know him and had so much time with him. I hope his flight will go well and he'll come back to Canada safely.

Thank you and bye

Zzzzzzzzzzz...

Oh! Hello! I was so full and sleepy from all of those cinnamon buns that I slept all the way to Canada!

I arrived safe and sound during the first snow of the season! I explored the woods a little bit looking for my brother Mystery but I couldn't find him! I hope he is okay!



I did meet another TV though! Her name is Princess Sarah and she just arrived from Australia! Wow! That's far away!



We went for a walk and played on the swings together.



It started to get colder so we went inside to show each other our postcards and eat the chocolate that my last host gave me! (Thank You Huppu!)



I wonder where I will go next!

Bye for now!

-Mercury