Travelog for: PinkLady

Hello!

I did today something really exiting thing!

I sent a message in the bottle!!! 

It was so fun! 



Offcourse others came to write, too.



This is the message we wrote together.





It's time to put the message into the bottle.





...And put the bottle closed.



Yes, now it's ready to "send" 



We went outside to the lake. There we released the bottle. 









And there it goes... cool!
Bye bye little bottle, travel safe!





Hostmom put a little note in the bottle, too. She wrote one of her e-mail address there, so it's possible if someone will find the bottle, he can write a message to hostmom's e-mail.

Now we can only wait... 

Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hi mommy!

I had a wonderful day! I went to visit exiting place, where I climbed so high, and where could see so awesome landscape views. Can you guess already, where I was?

Yes, I visited in the ski jump place here in Jyväskylä!!! 

Watch very carefully these photos... Can you believe there's still little bit of snow there? 









Hihii!!! This is like a BIG slide! Mommy, this is soooooo fun!!! 



I wanted to climb up... I wanted to see  this place even more better. And I wanted to see the view up there...

So, I climbed up. It was hard work, but I managed it.
Sooooo long stairs!!!





But as I was thinking, the view... Wow! So beautiful! 











On the way back, I saw some great things.

I saw this mysterious tunnel. What might be in the other side of the tunnel? Hmmmm...



...There's even more forest, offcourse! 



I saw also the small stream. Look, how pretty it is!



And I saw the beautiful butterfly, too.
It was just pity, that the butterfly flew away before I managed to be in the same picture...




Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hey mommy!

Today I was cycling with my hostmom and all other ToyVoyagers.
And because Finland is "the country with thousands of lakes" we were cycling around the lake named Jyväsjärvi. There I saw beautiful nature of this town. And guess what... the lake is just next to city center!

Hostmom also told me that there's about 188 000 lakes in Finland. Wow! So many!  Cool! 

Look how nice little basket hostmom put in her bicycle. We all toys travelled in it.



And here we go! Oh, mommy, I can already see the lake! Can you?



From there we just came...



And there you can see the lake, a street for cars and a railway, too.



Now we are even more close to the lake Jyväsjärvi.



The city center is so close the lake.



Now we are in Jyväsjärvi. And we are going to cycle all around the hole lake!





The views from the harbour.







Look! The flags of many different countries! 





There is Kuokkala, the one part of the Jyväskylä city.



And this is the bridge of Kuokkala.







Going forward.



The bridge of Kuokkala even one more time.
Hostmom took so many photos... 



And again the bridge of Kuokkala...
C'moon hostmom, please stop taking pictures, and continue cycling. 



Thanks. Now it's the right direction: forward.
(By the way mom, we are in Lutakko, it's the one part of Jyväskylä (as Kuokkala)).



Oh my... even one more photo of the bridge of Kuokkala! 



YES, keep going hostmom...











Ok, I have to admit, that this view is quite nice (there's the bridge of Kuokkala again in the picture, hih).



It's so nice that there's this small street for pedestrians and bikes so close this lake.
Hostmom told me, that this is the popular for people to exercise by walking, running, cycling, rolleyskating etc. around this lake.





There's Lutakko.



And there's Kuokkala.



And there are both: Kuokkala and Lutakko.



Look mom! Can you see that small castle just in front?



The castle is part of the park named Peukkula. It's a place where children can play all the day, and meet some fairy tale creatures!!! 





Now we are in the bridge named Äijälänsilta. Look, there's two men canoeing there! Can you see them?





This is Äijälänsilta.



And now our little journey continues.



There's city center... So so far!!!



Isn't this view nice? There's many birches, very typical tree in Finland.



Hih hih... Guess what is this bridge's name... YES, it's the bridge of Kuokkala, only from the other side of the lake now. 





There's the harbour and the city center and Lutakko.





Look, there's two wild ducks swimming (yes, those two small black spots in the lake)





And the journey continues. Look how green there is.



On the left side, there's trees.



And on the right side, there's the lake.





This bridge called as Mattilanniemen silta (a bridge of Mattilanniemi).



And we keep going...







...and keep going...



A cute small bridge.



Now we have cycled around the hole lake!





When we were back inside, we looked from the map, where we were cycled exactly. Look the red line around the lake, that is the way we were cycled today. Hostmom told me, we cycled about 15 kilometres. Wow! 



It was nice!

Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hello mom!

It's time to say goodbye to ToyVoyager Sylvia. She is leaving here.
I'm going to miss her, because she is so nice little tiger.

We all said goodbye to her.



And we gave her a group hug as goodbye.



Then we watched when Sylvia went into her envelope. Bye Sylvia!





Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hi mom!

Sylvia left here earlier today, BUT we got more company today, too.

ToyVoyager Mi Nam arrived here. She is like a bunny and a pig, too. Both of them! How cool! 

It's so nice to have more friends!

Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hey mommy!


I did something special today! I helped Mi Nam to complete one of her life mission.

Together we did some rabbit things. It was really fun! 



We eat carrots.



And some salad, too! Yummy!



Then we played hiding. We did it in "rabbit style".

Mommy, can you see me? ...No, you can't, because I'm hiding!



It's so nice to have a new ToyVoyager friend! 




Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hey mommy!

I have been so good time with my ToyVoyager friends here, that I haven't got a time to write updates daily...

Hostmom has got busy days at work lately, and she has been quite tired after the work day, so we toys have been doing something ourselves. One of the most nicest thing we have done, is playing different boardgames. It has been fun!

We have been played for example the Monopoly, Muuttuva labyrintti (the changing labyrinth) and different kinds of plays with playing cards.

Hostmom promised, that I can go outside soon, because the weather forecast has told there will be so nice weather here in the next following days.

Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hello mom!

I was outside today with other ToyVoyagers.

We went walking to the hostmom's backyard. There's already a summer here, and there's so green in everywhere!



I wanted to see more, so I climbed to the tree, a birch (koivu in Finnish).





There's the house of hostmom's home.



We went to see the flowers more closer.







I think these flowers are so beautiful. ...all of them!!!













Look, how beautiful view there is!





Here are we all just taking a little brake off walking.





Then we walked to see the lake. And we all were sitting and watched the lake and landscape there.



It's so finnish things: a lake and a tree. 









I found these yellow flowers just next to water. 



Now I am going back inside.



When we went back inside, we noticed that there has come a new ToyVoyager, Wayne gingerbreadman, to visit hostmom. How nice!



We all became friends!



Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hey mommy!

I found a flower sea! 

There's so much of flowers there! 

It's like a flower sea, or a flower jungle! Cool! 

Everything is fine here. Hostmom said she has a special plans for the day after tomorrow, and I'm so exited about it...

Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hello mommy!


A new ToyVoyager Kit-Kat arrived here today!
She is so cute and friendly kitty.
We all said her welcome.
I'm sure we will be friends!






She showed us the postcard, candies and a teabag, what she got from Lithuania with her.



Hostmom's cat came to say "Hello!" too.



I'm so exited about today's plan, because hostmom told me that today evening we all are going to do something really nice thing... Hih, but I don't tell you that yet, because it's more funny to keep it in secret. Don't worry mom, I will tell you that later!



Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hello mom!

I had a w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l day! 

Guess what I did... I was in a TOYVOYAGER MEETING!!!
Just great!!! I met sooooooo many new ToyVoyagers, and we had so much fun!


Here are we all toys together in Kirkkopuisto (a church park).
Our hosts and moms mmm105 and Reissari from Finland, and RikeH from Germany has organized this meeting, thanks for them!



Mommy, look very carefully these pictures!
Can you see someone very familiar charachter there?
YES, it's Vriendje!!! Mommy, your other TV was here, too!!!
   



Then mmm105 and Reissari said they have a secret, and we all must trust them. They talked each other something about benji jumping...      No no no, I won't do that!!! It's too crazy thing to do!!!

But it wasn't a benji jumping place where we went. I was so relief about that. mmm105 and Reissari were just kidding! 
We went to see more Finnish people in a great postcard shop, where was a postcrossing meeting there. That was nice!



After that we went to the restaurant and I ate pizza, yummy. 



Then was time to go "home", to mmm105's place.
There we said welcome to a new TV TobiHH, who came to visit mmm105.



After a long and exiting day, I was quite tired, so I went to sleep...

ZZZzzzzZZZ zzzzz ZZZZZZ  zzzzz  ZzZzZzZ zzZZZZz ZZZ zzzz




Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hey mommy!


Today hostmom took me with her to visit a great place.
We went to näkötorni (the viewing tower) to see good views about Jyväskylä city.
And the views were definitely so great! I saw the hole city from there! 

The viewing tower is located in the place called Harju (it's like a hill just next to city center).



There's the city center, and the harbour of Jyväskylä:



There's the sport stadium of Harju:



And if you look very carefully on the horizon of the following picture, you can see the ski jumping place there:



There's the house where hostmom is living! Yes, the building inside the red circle.



There's Natural History Museum in the same building as the viewing tower is.
So, I visited there, too.
I saw many Finnish animals there.

The Natural History Museum's website (click) tells that "The Natural History Section serves as a preservation unit for natural scientific research, and displays environmental subjects and research material. It takes care of the living plants of the botanical garden on the campus. It also receives wild animals found dead and prepares scientific samples of them. The section has a collection of over 250 000 samples, the most numerous being invertebrates, plants and moss."

I saw hirvi (a moose). It is the biggest animal living in Finland.



And I saw karhu (a bear). This one was a baby bear.



And there's two swans. A swan is the national animal of Finland.



Just next to Harju, we all stopped to watch a fountain.





And by walking in the city center I saw this little detail on the wall of one building.
Looks cool! 




Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hi mom!

Look how nice rainbow (sateenkaari in Finnish) I saw today! 

Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hi mommy!


Today is a sad and a happy day.

It's sad, because Mi Nam and Finfin has left from here to travel to their new hosts.

But it's happy, because a new toy BarryO arrived here.

First we all said goodbye to Mi Nam and Finfin.



They went to their envelopes.



Bye bye, travel safe!!!



Then we met a new toy, a teddy bear named BarryO. He is originally from USA.



Then we had a little party!!! 
We ate some German sweets, what Sabbel&Jenton has sent to hostmom.



Love,
PinkLady
xxx

Hi mom!


Today we spend a girly quality time, because we all girls; hostmom, me, Kit-Kat and Ronja were shopping!!! 

All boys stayed 'home', hihiii...

This shopping was our special time together. 

We went to city center of this town, and we visited in many shops.
We saw also some men from foreign country, who were there playing a music.
We also met an ice cream teddy named Ingman (so funny name)!!!

Hih, and we bought many things, mostly some summer clothes to our hostmom...

Love,
PinkLady
xxx