Travelog for: Bobi

Dear Mummy!

Today there was an envelope in the mailbox ...

All TV's are curious who's comes...




Look! It's Kasimir Kashmir! We welcome him very friendly - group hug!


Kind regards,
Bobi

I am Bobi and I am travelling on the WTVT.  I was so eager to start my travels on the Worldwide trail, that I forgot to introduce myself before I left my home in Italy.  I am at my first destination in Canada and already I have met a lot of other ToyVoyagers, Hedgie, Roderich, Charlie Bear and Ewan E. Ewok.

Today we are going to Eat! Fraser Valley, which is a show on local food.







We bought these tickets, which enabled us to try all sorts of food.

We met up with Smaug and his visiting TVs for coffee and to explore Chinatown.  This is the Millenium Gate, or the Gate of Thousands' Happiness.  It was built in 2002.



This is the Sun Yat Sen Garden.



We took a group picture here.



This is a memorial commemorating those who served in Canadian wars, and those who worked on the railroads.



This is the giant abacus.  The beads are made of jade.

Ollie Kikabeer arrived today.

Abby took me to a very special event.  A PostSecret live event!  Frank Warren got on stage and told everyone stories and showed pictures of never-before seen secrets, then opened up the floor to people in the audience who wanted to tell their secrets.

I did get my picture taken in the theatre, but it was so dark that you couldn't tell I was there, so instead I am showing you two pictures without me in them that are slightly better quality.





After the event, I got to meet Frank!

Today is Convocation at Abby's school, and I was there to see Abby's sister graduate.



The ceremony is held in the aptly-named Convocation Mall.



Before the ceremony, the graduands were piped in by SFU's six time world champion pipe band.



There were a number of speeches during the event.  Abby was the designated photographer for her sister, so she was busy running around with a much better camera and did not have time to take more photos of me.



After the ceremony there was a reception for a special few people.

It's time to harvest the grapes in the garden.  We all came out to help.



After playing for a while, Abby said that we were there to help, not supervise, and I was put to work.



It took a while, but I think we did a good job.

As you may know, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October.  It's not really a huge deal here, but, as one of Abby's professors said, 'Thanksgiving is the only day of the year where every single Canadian eats the same thing for dinner.'  This is mostly true.  Usually there is a turkey, but they take forever to cook and nobody like turkey here anyway, so there was chicken, along with potatoes, brussel sprouts, stuffing and candied yams.



I took some of everything.

I am on my way to my next host on the WTVT!

Hello mum!
I would like to inform you that I`m in Moscow and the first place I visited - the office where my host`s boy-friend works. Oh I prefer to have fun - not to sit in office!

Hey!
Finally I have seen some nice places in Moscow.
First we were at Arbat StreetIt was already dark  But I visited Moscow underground and saw.... one of the most popular Russian man - Lenin!

Quote:

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.

I`ll come back to you soon!

Hello mummy!
This time I`m not very lucky with host - she is always busy, we don`t have any fun!! So I decided to jump into her bag and see some places where she spends her time.

This street is near Kremlin - Tverskaya Street. It is wide and there are many cars, hotels and shops.

On Sunday I visited the museum of Vera Mukhina. She was Soviet sculptor who is famous for the sculpture of Worker and Kolkhoz Woman:.

Quote:

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman is a 24.5 meter (78 feet) high sculpture made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The sculpture is an example of the socialist realistic style, as well as Art Deco style. The worker holds aloft a hammer and the kolkhoz woman a sickle to form the hammer and sickle symbol.

Her museum is situated inside the pedestal on which the great sculpture is placed.

The sculpture was originally created to crown the Soviet pavilion (architect: Boris Iofan) of the World's Fair.
In the museum we saw some symbols of Soviet Union - for example placard of one of the most popular Soviet film.

Hello dear mummy!
I saw Russian countryside.
I wanted to walk more but I met awful guy who scared me!!!!
So I decided to stay at home.