Eldon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Isobel&Neil Posted Aug 17, 2007, 2:53 pm	Eldon is so cute, we might just keep him for ourselves! If you have found him, we hope you will look after him, and help him to travel and do lots of fun things. Please register at ToyVoyagers.com, so that you can update his Travelog and let us know what he is doing and where he goes. Please feel free to pass him onto other people you know who might need a travelling companion.  He will send you updates on where they've been and what they've been up to, so he'll earn his keep!
Isobel&Neil Posted Aug 20, 2007, 1:02 pm	Poor Eldon! We took 26 ToyVoyagers 'Up North' with us this weekend, and we returned home with only one:  Eldon. On his travels with us and his friends, we visited Durham (and stayed in Durham Castle!), Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and York. Now Eldon is sitting at home in the Office, awaiting his next adventure ... will it be geocaching?  random release? or off to be Hosted via the Forum? He'll announce his travel plans soon.  Watch this space.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 4, 2007, 10:53 pm	Eldon arreived in Germany. Luna, our dog, smells the envelop thats from the UK and says ToyVoyagers. Can i come out? Hi!!!! I'm Eldon. I'm so gladd i'm out of that little envelope. Hi Eldon. My name is Knorretje Knor and this is the home of my owner. A Eskimo welcom to you Eldon.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 5, 2007, 9:42 am	Last night Knorretje Knor shows me her stamp book and tells me about her plan for traveling. She already have some beautiful stamps. I told her about traveling in a envelop. It's dark and a little bit cold. She is going to ask her owner to make me some warm clothes for the winter. She also want to ask if her owner can make some hole's in the envelope so we can see something when we travel.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 6, 2007, 10:37 pm	This morning i meet a new catfriend. Her name is Trixi after the queen of The Netherlands because she has some orange in her coat and she and het sister are born on Queensday 2000. Trixi is a sweet cat that purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs a lot.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 7, 2007, 10:00 pm	Today i vissit with my host a school in the Netherlands. My host is learning to become a teacher and pracktisch that 2 day a week with children age 4 till 6. I travels in the bag from my host to the school together with a bunny thats called fearbunny. My host i going to use the bunny for a story about a dragon and a rabbit. This is me in her bag togehter with the sweet bunny. After being in the bag i stade on the desk to see the children playing. I helped with putting the paint in some  ....... . So the children can make some art in the traffic theme. Then i go looking what some boy are making with lego. They let me take a ride on one off their lego cars. Her i have to stop for the traficlight Than i go looking to the painters. They making roads on their papers. After seeing al those nice stuff i made a special flight around in the class room.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 18, 2007, 12:59 pm	Hi, This morning i get a little present from my host. She nits me a warm, green, shawl. Me with my green new shawl We are going geocahing today with my host her boyfriend and a other friend. My host her boyfriend has is birthday and this is his present. Geocahing is finding a tressure with GPS. This sound like fun and cold so i'm verry happy with my new scarf.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 18, 2007, 1:06 pm	Geocaching is walking around in the area and find some hidden hints to find the tressure. We have find al the hints and this is me at the place where the tressure was hide. This is me with the tressure box. There are some little goodies inside and s note book where you can sign that you found it. After finding the tressure we put it back on the hidding place and go back to the car to find a place to get a drink.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 18, 2007, 1:09 pm	After getting a drink we where going to a place with a lot of sand to play with some kites. My host forgot to make some pictures from me and the kites  After kiteting we where going to a Vietnamees restaurant to eat something from the buffet. I eat some loempia's and the baked bananas tasted verry good.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 18, 2007, 1:12 pm	We find some tropical foods and i like taken my picture with them.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 18, 2007, 1:17 pm	Today i'm again at the class of my host. One of the little boy's is having his birthday tomorrow. He will be 5 years old. My host make him a nice heat to wear at his birthday. Because they are still talking about the Traffic she put 5 cars at the standardheat to make it more his own heat. She hopes he likes his heat. I think the heat looks great.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 18, 2007, 1:25 pm	This evening i'm going with my host to her working place. She is a receptionist. After some time watching what she is doing. I take over her place and sit on her chair ans answer questions from people or give them keys the need. At 23.55 i ask the people who are still in the building to leave the building. After that we made a round to look if everybody did leave. They lissent good. Their was nobody left. After taking my picture with this statue with faces we where going home to Germany.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 26, 2007, 1:26 pm	Today a other ToyVoyager arreived at the home of my host. His name is Seamus. On this picture you can see Knorretje Knor, Seamus and Me together.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 26, 2007, 1:31 pm	Today i go geocaching again with my host. This time we go to the City of Bad Bentheim to find 18 clues to find the Cache. This is me at the castle wall. You can see an realy nice view. And this is me an Seamus together with the Cache after a walk from more then 2 hours.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 28, 2007, 4:29 pm	Its time for me to travel again. My hoste told me that i'm going to the United States of America. She puts me on the scale to see how havy i'm. Then Seamus and Knorretje Knor wants to sit on the scale together with me. My host found me a used envelop where i fit in. She did have new envelopes but they where to big for me. She puts some nice stickers at the address from the sender she get the envelop from. Than its time for me to say goodbye to all the friends i have made in this house. First their was Streepje one of the Cats. She give me a nose what is verry special for her. And then Seamus and Knorretje Knor say their goodbyes. And then when i'm almoste in to the evelope my new friendd Meg waved me goodbye and whises me a verry good journey. This is me in the envelop. You can see they are sad that i'm leaving. Thats why the picture is not clear.
The Sparkle Posted Sep 28, 2007, 4:33 pm	I put the envelope with Eldon in a Dutchmailbox today. I hope he travels fast to Susan in the USA and that he arreived in a good condition. Thank you for staying with us Eldon. We loved your visit. TheSparkle, Knorretje Knor, Meg, Luna(dog) and the 2 Cats.
kristl Posted Dec 18, 2007, 5:51 pm	Hello, Eldon is in Moscow with me)) It's very good that he has his green scarf, cause it's quite cold here.. and snowy
kristl Posted Dec 28, 2007, 6:33 am	It's a bit cold here in Moscow so I stayed at home for a while. I met another TV who arrived at the same day as I - Gina Giraffe from Austria, who has already visited Ukraine. I like her. She always tells me something funny One evening we watched some playing hockey and skating from the balcony In was very interesting and funny The New Year is coming and everybody here is preparing for it. We'regoing to celbrate it in a village 600 km from Moscow in a small house. Yhat must be interesting
kristl Posted Dec 29, 2007, 11:09 am	The New Year is coming! Today Kristl finished her eternity-long cleaning and we could decorate the NewYear Tree! It was not very big - good for the TVs And it can changethe light!! See how nice it looks in the dark! You can't see us, but we're here There was a TV-sized reindeer from Sweden: And some of the toys were made of felt. It is Swedish tradition too: Bumba met a nice plush rat who was wearing a cap with ear flaps Gina Giraffe found a nice decoration with two gold bears. We've not decided yet where to put it... And so looks the New Year Tree from the side.
kristl Posted Jan 20, 2008, 4:12 pm	We spent the New Year Eve in the village Glubokoye that is 400 km from Moscow in Tver Region. We got there with a car, though the road was awful. It took us 5 hours to get there, but it was so beautiful there!!! We managed to walk in the snowy forest when we were looking for a New Year Tree. I found a cone that was not very high from the ground: And I managed to have some rest on the bunch where the cone was Finally we managed to find a New Year Tree!! Look how nice it is! Kristl helped us to get there! Do you think we look like decorations?)) We even wanted to travel home on the tree! But we were afraid do fall down.. So we decided to get home in Kristl's bag Though it was very beautiful in the forest, it was quite cold. So I was happy to come back home again and warm myself near the Russian stove. We decorated the house with some old New Year decorations, but they looked very nice and cosy: In the house I met a hand-made cat that was just adorable! He was much bigger than me
kristl Posted Jan 20, 2008, 4:14 pm	In the evening I watched my hosts and their friends playing a kind of Monopoly called Landapoly - this is Manapoly with IT-companies Very funny
kristl Posted Jan 20, 2008, 4:15 pm	Todaz we went for a walk and got a surprise - our hosts suggested that we can sled!! And they made us ride very fast!! We didn't want to get out, but it was snowing and we were afraid to get wet.
kristl Posted Jan 20, 2008, 4:21 pm	When we got home to Zheleznodorozhny we ran to our New Year Tree first - to look for our presents! We saw that there was somethin that was not there as we left the house. But first we couldn't dare to go and see what it was. We were very shy. But I thought that presents - it's very nice and went first to look for my present I found it near my deer -- it was a chest with sweets! How nice! I like sweets! I was very glad to show it to the other TVs Then all the other went to look for their presents. First - Bumba. Then - Gina Giraffe And then BearyLuv We were very happy!
kristl Posted Jan 20, 2008, 5:43 pm	Today we went to an Italian cafe It was very interesting cause we went there with our new friend Rangler who has just arrived! First of all we watched through the menu of course!! I decided to study it in detail cause I like Italian cuisine: I got something delicious - tiramisu! Ater it I enjoyed cold mojito - very tasty! And this is a specil photo - it was taken for BearyLuv cause he collects photos with tagged toyvoyager bears - and I'm one of them! I was very proud!
kristl Posted Jan 20, 2008, 5:44 pm	Kristl and many of her friends did a nice thing today - they made curd dumplings themselves!!! It took much time! We wanted to help them, but Kristl advised us not to come too close cause flour was everywhere in the kitchen and we could make us dirty. But when everything was ready we came to watch it -- of course!
kristl Posted Jan 20, 2008, 5:45 pm	Today Charity Bear got his Travel Tag and tomorrow he's going to start his journey. We all wish him good luck and nice trip!!
kristl Posted Jan 21, 2008, 5:30 pm	Today we went to the post office, cause Bumba was leaving to visit Drakie in Honiton and Charity Bear was starting his journey to the US. It was snowing heavily the whole day, so all the cars were driving very slowly.. I had nothing to do so I decided to explore the car.. and met someone new - a rat that lives on the torpedo
kristl Posted Jan 21, 2008, 5:34 pm	When we came home, Kristl showed us her album for stamps!! Well actually it is not her. As she said one of her grand-grand-relatives was collecting stamps, she doesn't know who.. And she got 2 big albums full of stamps and one where there was free place. As she gets now quite many letters and greeting cards in the envelopes with stamps she decided not to throw away them, but to put in this album. But there she found many stamps that just lied in a small envelope.. We had to put them in the album!! We worked assiduously and as a reward everybody got a stamp! We could chouse ourselves and I've chosen a very special stamp - an old stamp (1982) from the USSR times with the view of Kremlin.
kristl Posted Feb 16, 2008, 8:20 pm	Today it was snowing heavily and everything in the street was white. We watched it out out of the window - so it's warmer  In the evening Kristl showed us a daily newspaper. First we could understand why - we still can't read in Russian But showed ud what we could understand - a number - today fell 10 cm snow!! That's very much!
kristl Posted Feb 16, 2008, 8:39 pm	Today I visited the centre of Moscow for the second time I went there with Gina, Rangler and BearyLuv. The snow was everywhere and it made everything look so wonderful! We took the underground to the station 'Teatral'naya' (Theatre station) and first what we saw was the Bolshoi Theatre! It is being restore now - that's why there's a big advertisment poster. Near the Bolshoj we saw TSUM - a big and very famous shopping centre in Moscow: We came that direction to get to Kremlin: As we came nearer to Kremlin we saw a big re builing - the State Historical Museum! Then we walked along the Kremlin wall - I haven't been there before: Near the Kremlin wall we saw the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the eternal flame: Then we went further and saw a grotto! We saw another big tower and wanted to watch it closer. There was a bridge connecting this tower with a small one. Kristl told these are Troitskaya (big) and Kutafya (small) towers Can you see a building behin the wall? It's Terem Palace! We found the tour centre and souvenir shop near the wall. There was a plan of Kremlin - we studied it quite long! Do you see where we are? Then we came back to the Historic Museum and went to the Red Square: Here you can  see Nikolskaya Tower of Kremlin: And here behind me is the beautiful Kazan Cathedral We also saw the most famous shopping centre - Moscow GUM and a skating rink in front of it We crossed the Red Square an came to the Spasskaya Tower Left of it we saw more towers: Tsarskaya, Nabatnaya, Konstantino-Eleninskaya and Beklemishevskaya: and of course we saw the famous St. Basil's Cathedral!! And here is the plan of Kremlin. I liked it very much so I decided to post this picture here:
kristl Posted Feb 20, 2008, 10:14 am	Today Squiggles has arrived!! We're glad to meet him! Before he came I was the smallest TV here, but he's even smaller than me!! We should take good care of him!
kristl Posted Feb 20, 2008, 10:16 am	Today Gina is leaving Moscow, but two other TVs have arrived - Snowy and Elisabeth, it's allways fun to meet new friends!! We all say Good Bye to Gina and wish her many wonderful adventures during her journeys!
kristl Posted Mar 3, 2008, 11:36 am	Today we went for a visit to another flat where Kristl had some business to do. She said that we won't be bored cause there're many other toys there that we would be glad to meet. She was absolutely right!! She told us about a very old dog called S'ema that lives in a big armchair. She suggeste us to visit him cause he can tell us many interesting stories. And so did we. All the TV-bears decided to visit S'ema. We took some sweets to give him. We came to S'ema one by one introducing ourselves and asking him to tell us something interesting. He was very happy that we visited him, he said that it's quite boring to sit all days there on the armchair, though he has his best friend with him. Then we all sat around him and listened many wonderful stories and fairy-tales!! That was a perfect day! I hope to visit S'ema once more and tell him about my adventures as a ToyVoyager.
kristl Posted Mar 3, 2008, 11:42 am	Good bye, my friends! Good bye, Moscow! Today I continue my journey and the next host I'll visit is ChristinaB in Vienna. I have another important mission - I have to deliver to Christina some stamps that Kristl wants to present her. I'll take care of them uring the journey. Now it's time to get into the envelope. Curly and Snowy came to the post office with me. Goo bye, friends, I'll miss you!! And allt he other TVs I've met too! But I'm looking forward to continue discovering the world!!
ChristinaB Posted Mar 6, 2008, 5:41 pm	I was picked up from the postoffice today and my new hosts realeased me from my narrow envelope! How great to see the sunshine again! I was told that I'm in Austria's capital Vienna now - what a surprise. I haven't heard about this place yet but I'm very curious what I'll do and see here!
ChristinaB Posted Mar 15, 2008, 6:13 am	I'm having a great time here in Austria! I'm in good company with Gulliver, another wonderful bear from Germany, Sputnik, a funny alien and Glory the little Americain bear. Last weekend we went to Wachau with our hosts. Wachau is a beautiful valley at the longside of river Danube. It is an UNESCO world heritage site and it is very beautiful. It's famous for its long history, the wineyards placed in terrasses and for the apricots planted there. We visited a little village called "Dürnstein" which was very nice. There is a beautiful blue tower there just next to the river, we went for a walk through the wineyards (no wine at this time of the year ;() and then we climbed up all the way to the old castle. It was pretty exhausting but the view was wonderful from up there!
ChristinaB Posted Mar 15, 2008, 6:15 am	At the castle - look what a beautiful view!
ChristinaB Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:04 pm	I did alot of sightseeing here in Vienna! I never ever thought that there is sooo much to see in this city! One day our host took Sputnik and me downtown. And guess what! We got to see all these buildings in real that we only knew from pictures so far. We started our guided tour at the city hall. Our host told us that there are always some events taking place at the big square in front of city hall: the Christmas market in December, the opera festival in summer, a circus somewhen in autumn and now we just missed a big ice-skating court. Just opposite of the city hall there is the old imperial theatre and close to it we saw the Austrian Parliament. We continued our walk to the wonderful "Volksgarten" where we found this temple. In summer there are millions of roses in this park and I guess it must be wonderful then, too!
ChristinaB Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:09 pm	Then we passed by "Hofburg", the former residence of the Habsburg family. Nowadays it hosts the Austrian National Library, the Spanish Riding School, the President's office and several museums. There were these beautiful gates around Hofburg, Heldentor and Michaelertor, and when we went through one of them we arrived at "Graben", a very famous and expensive shopping street. I would have liked to buy a souvenir there - but I didn't have enough money!!
ChristinaB Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:13 pm	We arrived at "St. Stephen's" cathedral then which is said to be in the very center of the city. How amazing to see the colourful roof!! Then we went on to the famous opera house. Oh, how much would I love to watch a play there!! Close to the opera house we found "Karlsplatz" with one of the most beautiful subway stations built in a special style called "Jugendstil" which is very similar to "Art nouveau". At the same square we also found this beautiful church:
ChristinaB Posted Mar 31, 2008, 9:19 pm	Did you know that cafés are very, very important in Vienna? There are tons of them and I have been told that there are also special receipts of coffees that only exist in Vienna. People here love sweets, too and I was really astonished when I saw all these beautiful rabbits, eggs, sculptures etc made of chocolate and marzipan. And of course I got to see the real "Sachertorte". Unfortunately we passed by in the early morning so the café was still closed...
ChristinaB Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:04 pm	Imagine, I also saw the famous "Giant Wheel"!! And then we went on to this very colourful house created by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. There is nothing special inside, just normal flats - but it is sooo beautiful. Our host told us that in this house there is a special "law" which says that every citizen can decorate the wall around his windows as he/she likes but only as far as they can reach with their arms.
ChristinaB Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:10 pm	Today we visited the big Easter market here in Vienna! It was really amazing to see all these wonderful eggs. We asked the sales woman there and she told us that there were more than 40.000 eggs waiting to be sold! Can you imagine how much work it is to paint them all?? Too much for a little bear...
ChristinaB Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:16 pm	When we came back home we put up the Easter decorations in the flat. We made a big kind of tree where we put alot of eggs - I was really a great help!! We also found some other decorations in the cellar, and then we baked a little sheep! It smelled sooo good and it was really hard not to try it now. Our host said that we would have to wait until Easter Sunday, then we may eat it.
ChristinaB Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:22 pm	We packed our stuff today and went to Upper Austria where the grandparents of our hosts live. It's in the very countryside and since it snowed alot during the past days our hosts suggested to go skiing. They did it very often this winter and were happy to go again - and so were Sputnik and I because that way we got to see a real "Austrian" mountain called Krippenstein (it is more than 2.700 m high). It still snowed when we went there and it was a bit foggy so they pictures aren't so clear, but it was a wonderful day and we enjoyed playing in the snow alot!!
ChristinaB Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:31 pm	It was Easter Sunday today and we celebrated it in the countryside with the grandparents of our hosts. Easterbunny came early in the morning and hit tons of eggs in the garden. Some of them were really hard to find - one was even in the bird's house!! And guess what! Sputnik and I went up so early that we really got to see him! Wow, hm?? We were sooo happy! How great that we could have our photo taken together with him!! The kids were very excited about all the eggs and sweets and the oldest one even got a school bag which was hidden on a tree!!! It is a tradition here in Austria that kids who will start with school in autumn get their schoolbag from Easter bunny. Sputnik and I ate many, many chocolate eggs and we felt a bit sick in the evening...
ChristinaB Posted Apr 4, 2008, 4:33 pm	Unfortunately my time here in Austria is over and I packed all my stuff and left for the USA today. I'm curious who and what will be waiting there for me!!

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