Travelog for: Sundy

Sundy has begin his travel to Finland.

I hope he will have a very interesting trip

Well, this update is little bit different than "usual ones", because ToyVoyager Sundy-cat has arrived here in Finland in the beginning of February, but I couldn't register in this website then... Sundy cat has already left back home, so I'm making this update afterwards.
Now I tell you, what Sundy did here in Finland...

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Hello Mom,
I finally arrived my first destination, Finland. It's 6th February now. A human took me out of the envelope (I travelled in it!), and she introduced herself. Her name is Mervi, and I can live in her home the next some weeks. She seems to be a nice person, and I'm so exited to see how she's living and what kind of place this is.
Oooooh, this is so exiting!!!


My new hostmom show me a map of Jyväskylä. Jyväskylä is the town, where I am now. It's a nice town, where live about 130 000 inhabitants. My hostmom said to me that her home is just next to a small lake in northern part of the town.


This is the picture of the house where I live here. My hostmom's home is in the second floor. Actually you can see her windows just in the middle of this photo.


I got a new friend in my very first day in Finland. My hostmom has a cat. His name is Jeppe, and he is 1,5 years old very kind cat. In this picture I'm having a relaxing time with Jeppe in his climbing tree. It was nice, because Jeppe's furr is so soft. 
Purrrrrr purrrrrrr purrrrrrr


We had a quality time together several times, as a cat and a cat!





One day I was walking in the city center, and my hostmom introduced the city. And we had a company, Roos from Belgium!
This place is called tori in Finnish. I think it's plaza in English.


Can you see me? 

Here I am. Just in front of that BIG statue in the middle of the plaza. The statue is so big, that my hostmom has difficulties to take a photo.

It was so nice to meet another travelling toy! We had lots of talk about, because we are both in our very first place to visit in our travelling history. We are both newbies in travelling toys. We could share our experiences, and that was nice. 

This is the main street in this town. This is the place where the most of all shops located. This is the street where are not aloud to drive a car. Only pedestrians can WALK here. It's kävelykatu in Finnish.


Hih, I was on the big ball statue. There's also some snow on it, too! 


Do you want to go to the restaurant? I'm sitting there next to the lady!
To be honest, this is not a restaurant itself, it's a wall decoration 


Here you can see the local post office. There's two kind of mailboxes there. The blue one is for priority mail, and the orange one is for economy mail. Roos and I decided to climb on the mailbox. 
Posti is post office in Finnish.




This building is matkakeskus (=travelling center). There's the bus station and the rain station in the same building.

In front of matkakeskus building there's a nice statue of elk.




I wanted to see railways and some trains, too. That's why we walked on the bridge, and there's a big street for cars and also railways under us. It was fun to watch how all cars and trains drove under us. And they all looked so tiny!



Here I am, in front of the church of Jyväskylä. It's a beautiful church, don't you think?



Ooooh help!!! The lion!!! Iiiiiik!!!
No way, I was just kidding...   
Next to the church there was a statue where you can see the coat of arms of Finland (Finnish lion).


What is this WHITE and COLD thing?  It's everywhere... and it's a LOT !!!!





My hostmom told me the white stuff called snow. She told me also that every winter there's lots of snow in Finland.

I walked very LONG stairs one day. My hostmom told me that this place called Harju, and it's located in the central of Jyväskylä. It's like a little forest and hill just middle of the city. Nice!




It was really really cold day! (about -30 degrees Celsius!!!!)  Can you believe it?
It was so cold, that all stones look like they are frozen. 

Finally I'm up. It was long stairs!



Hi there!
This funny sign shows how far away different cities are from here. Do you noticed, that all those cities are in different countries, and no one is in Finland?


Mom look! I found some homes of birds, birds' nests, look up in the tree! 


It was really pritty sunset in that day, isn't it?


Oh, look Mom! Guess what funny thing we did?
I was swinging with my pig friend! It was really fun although there were snow, too. 
...and snow was cold
...and wet!!!
We didn't swing long time, because we didn't want to get cold and have a flu...




It was so cold day, that there was some ice crystals in the window!!!   
The round light in the picture is the Moon. Those ice crystals look beautiful in the Moon light, aren't they? Pictures are cool, but I can say, that it looked MUCH better in nature than on the photo!!! 



One day I was in the Tupperware home party with my hostmom. Party was in the house of my hostmom's friend.

There was a nice map of the World! It was a curtain in front of the window!

...And there was also a real living dog! Lucky that she's kind. 

In those Tupperware Party I was cooking. This is how we made some cupcakes in the microwave oven in total 10 minutes. Those cupcakes looked so yummy! And they were yummy, too! 








Look how many fridge magnets there were!!!  Wow!
Can you see me?


A group hug! <3 <3 <3


So funny sign! Do you think those humans are going to crash?


Look Mom!
There's so much snow that those signs are almost under the snow!!!     

Well, my hostmom explained, that this place is children's playground in summertime. Children can learn the rules of traffic there in safe environments. And that's why all those signs are smaller than the normal sized.
Oooh, how cool is that? It's nice that there's this special place for children, I think.

What do you think about this art sculpture? Is it pretty?



And what is this?

Well, it must be rabbit's footprint.

But what about this one?

My hostmom guessed it might be squirrel's footprint.

Look Mom, I can climb!!! 
Well, it's not a surprise because I'm a cat. MEAOW!!!



Hurry up, my brave horse! Hurry up!

 
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!  HYVÄÄ YSTÄVÄNPÄIVÄÄ! 

I ate something something very pink and sweet. It was delicious! 

I was skiing!!! It was difficult, but very fun!!! 


I'm so lucky, because I was able to visit in a POSTCARD FACTORY named Karto Oy. It's a biggers factory which make postcards in Finland. There were so much postcards there, propably millions of them in the storage! And I saw how they make postcards with step by step! How awesome is that!!! 
I never forget this experience about visiting in the postcard factory. It was so exiting!

















Now I'm ready for new adventures, for new places, for new countries to visit.
Bye bye Finland! Bye bye my hostmom!
I'm goooooooing back home now!

Sundy-cat started to travel back home to France today.

Safe journey! 

Sundy came home yesterday and is ready for a new adventure.

I see his notebook with him, it is beautiful and his previous host showed him so interesting thing

Sundy and his notebook arrived in Kansas today!

Dandelions in the lawn are a sure sign of spring! Halo kitty, the neighborhood stray, came to say hello!

It's been a really busy couple of days, so host mom took me for a walk after work. She showed me a lovely but somewhat rundown house a couple of blocks from home, that used to be a coach house. It still looks very pretty, even if it has seen better days.

Host mom said she experienced "sticker shock" at the gas station today... the price of gas is rising quickly

Tonight was the last night of play practice before the first performance! Everyone was so excited!

Host mom stopped and showed us the water tower in Thayer, on the way to church today. This one is the most round of all the water towers we've seen!

Sundy enjoyed watching the children's Easter play and service! The children told mission stories about activities in Asia and the play told the story of Easter, with two big girls telling the story and the little kids acting it out.

Twin Trestles is such a fascinating place, I don't think I will ever tire of going there! So much to see and explore. It's just starting to green up and look pretty now

We went to Topeka and saw tractors!

Host mom made herself a pretty skirt today!

We stopped at Garnett's South Lake in the morning, to look for Canada geese, and we also found mushrooms!