Posted Jan 21, 2008, 3:19 am
Auggie is looking to visit all over the world and see the various monuments, people, festivals, architecture and weird "Earth-y" things your town has to offer. Auggie likes anything fun, odd or unique about where you live. An official WorldTrip book will be made after his journey closes with any souvenirs and photographs of all of the excellent places Auggie pops up.
Posted Jan 22, 2008, 4:28 pm
Posted Jan 23, 2008, 8:17 pm
His travel plans are as follows:
Mizzery-Germany(HAD A WONDERFUL TIME, THANK YOU!)
Mood-France (THANKS, MOOD! HAD A GREAT TIME!)
Steve & Helly-United Kingdom (HAD A GREAT TIME, THANKS!)
Jiles-The Netherlands(ARRIVED!)
heyknithappens-Indianapolis
WILL VISIT LATER:
MissNadine-Russia
Kristl-Russia
Posted Feb 16, 2008, 9:52 pm
Today, Auggie arrived save in Germany! He was really really tired by his journey in the tiny envelop and he was glad to come out. Immediatey he showed us the letter which accompanies him to give us some information about himself and his trip. Auggie is the nicest Alien I've ever met!
And I'm sure we will have a lot of fun together!
The first thing Auggie wanted to do in Germany was to lern how to say hello in german as he wanted to send greetings to a special friend.
Posted Feb 16, 2008, 10:13 pm
We were very happy to welcome another toyvoyager, Alfred, the same day, and we were even more happy to see they became friends immediately!
Auggie showed Alfred the whole apartment and the places he likes most.
Unfortunately, our cats weren't that happy with the choice Auggie and Alfred made for their place to rest.
So Auggie and Alfred continued their tour through the apartment. Both were a little scared by the decoration of the living room and wanted to hide but we explained that their's no reason to be frightened as the swords on the wall are just part of our equipment for our historial reenactment group.
And then it was already time to start our trip to the Netherlands. Auggi and Alfred were very excited to be in two different countries on one day!
The drive by car to Enschede was very long and the two boys needed a little break so we decided to make a little stop and go for a walk for a moment.
The first thing we saw in Enschede was a really really big red shoe. Auggie was scared, he thought they have giants in the Netherlands and he wanted to hide in my bag.
But he calmed down and he and Alfred tried to learn more about the Netherlands by reading the newspaper.
What they liked best was not the famous market in Enschede we visited but a pretty huge wallpainting.
When we returned to our apartment, the two little ones were soooo tired and they immediately fall asleep.
Posted Feb 16, 2008, 10:32 pm
So they had to say goodbye to their new friends (a little bunch of dragons) to accompanie me to the city.
As Auggie wanted to see more of the countryside of the region we decided to go by train instead of going by car.
One thing, thats very special about Münster is that we have many many churches here. The people always say in Münster either the church bells are ringing or its raining!
Next thing we visited the castle, next to the university of Münster.
We spend some minutes walking through the castle gardens and afterwards went to " das blaue Haus" (the blue house) a famous restaurant here in Münster.
Soon the little toyvoyagers were very tired by the long walk and we paused at a fountain.
But we weren't finished with our trip yet. After the break we made our way to the city hall. It's a very very old building in the center of Münster. It's kind of amazing that such old buildings are next to the modern ones and the shopping streets.
Auggie noticed even more churches than I showed him. In the back around of this picture again: a church.
Auggie also learnd a few more words German! A "Kirche" is a church, a city hall is called "Rathaus" here in Germany and Hello how are you is "Hello, wie geht es Dir?" in German.
Posted Feb 24, 2008, 6:06 pm
But that shouldn't be a problem there are so many funny things to do at home.
At first we played a little hide and seek....
It really wasn't easy to find him!
And Auggie was really surprised that we have sooo many dragons here in Germany...
Afterwards I had to do some housework... but fortunately, all toyvoyagers helped me... they are really good in finding the pairs of the single socks...
Posted Feb 24, 2008, 6:15 pm
We decided to draw a few paintings. I can say some of the Toyvoyagers are really talented! As took them a few hours to finish the paintings but with a little teamwork they achieved it. I think they can be really proud!
Then I decided to teach Auggie and the others a little German.
And with the help of the dictionarys they learn a few sentences.
I'm on holidays in Germany - Ich mache Urlaub in Deutschland
I'm a Toyvoyager - Ich bin ein Toyvoyager
I travel around the whole world - Ich reise um die ganze Welt
But to study the whole day is to boring and Auggie wanted to listen to some German music to see how much he can understand.
In the evening we wanted to watch a DVD but it was really hard to get them to decide on ONE movie. Unfortunately I don't have a movie with aliens, dogs, marmots and bears all in one...
Posted Feb 24, 2008, 6:22 pm
They are good friends now!
But you can't stay in bed all day. So we made a toyvoyagers battle on playstation.
To sad, Auggie isn't good in playing such games... his armes are toooo short.
That's why we decided to do something everyone can do: we started to read for a little while.
Posted Feb 24, 2008, 6:33 pm
and then they made it higher and higher...
but it's not easy to build a card house when a little cat is around...
So, unfortunately all broke down before they had achieved to build a house of all cards..
But then it was time to say goodbye for Auggie and Alfred, so we made one last visit to Siggi who's a huge Viking worrior living in our apartment.
Posted Mar 16, 2008, 9:14 pm
He was welcomed by Blue Rat
Oooh my god ??? I'm looking twice ???
Posted Mar 29, 2008, 2:29 pm
héhéhh, Here I am in the City of the Space of Toulouse
Mood told me I might meet some aliens there, but none of them ...
Here I am in front of the ERS on the left (Earth Observation Satellite) and the Soyouz spacecraft (on the right)
And behind me you can see the Russian Mir space station, near the TerraDoma
Hey! Look!!! I found my next means of transport:
the Ariane 5 launch vehicle!! Just perfect!!!!
Oh oh ?? What's this ???
Looks like Saturn??
Well in fact, it's the CNES entrance (the Spatial Center of Toulouse)
Hello Hank, it's me, reflected in Saturn !!!
Posted Apr 6, 2008, 10:18 pm
I thought I had found one, but when I tried to be in contact with it ... nothing ...only a very good fragrance.
Just after it, I felt so strange ?? as if I had traveled miles away, anf found myself in a cool and warm place ...
You say cool I think ??
In fact, Mood told me it was Californian poppy...
Then after an hour walking : my very first close encounter with an earth animal !!! Look !! just behind me...!
Well ... once again, I try to talk to him, but nothing ... I even tried to call him "Médor" as I've heard people call their pets this way, but still no answer ... I suppose I'll never know what kind of animal it was... anyway ... when I left, I just heard some kind of growl ...
grooowwwwwlllllll
Posted Apr 6, 2008, 10:52 pm
coming from Switzerland, his name is Robinson
He's a parrot, that is to say, he repeats everything all the time. It's his job ...!
As we are going to spend time together, we have decided to try to know each other better. Blue Rat had the idea, so he took a white board, and we began to draw about us... Here is my family (mum and dad):
As I wanted to learn more about the animal I met the other day, I draw this picture :
They just laughed ... and I still don't know about it ...
Anyway, I could learn how to say hello in 3 different languages, look !
1/ German:
2/ Russian:
3 / French:
I hope you take notes Hank !!!
Then it was time to say good bye to Blue Rat who was going away the next day ... So we drank some Ti Punch (white rhum with lemon), and ate some guadeloupean chocolate ... very tasty I must say!!!
then he took his flying cube and waved good byyyyye my friends !!!!
Posted Apr 6, 2008, 11:20 pm
I climbed up an earth machine (they call it bus):
that took me to the center of the city of Toulouse : Place du Capitole
The Capitole is the building behind me (this is the townhall in fact) (you can see the french flag)
and near this fountain
here is the first thing I met :
Have you seen these bric-à-brac windows :
earth people are really untidy!!
It reminds me Mum when she asks me tidy your capsule!!!!
By the way, let me introduce you to my new friend "Horodateur" the pay and display machine
Then here I am in front of and old gothic convent whose name is the AUGUStins ...
It's a sculpture museum ...
and here is the St Sernin basilic
now the Pont Neuf upon the river Garonne
and the Donjon
but its started to rain, so I stopped my visit, and found a shelter under this beautiful french phone box
Allo Hank??? Auggie's speaking
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I made my escape as quickly as I could.
Phew, too much excitement for one day!
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I think aliens planted the stones, no humans could do that, they're too big! I started to get home sick, but not for long as I met another earth animal.
This was a very strange animal, although it was warm this morning the animal had a woolly jumper on - how strange. It also had a little one with it. Perhaps they come in different sizes?
The whole field was covered with these woolly creatures but they weren't very friendly, they ran away.
Posted Apr 25, 2008, 5:39 pm
Wiltshire gets a lot of crop circles in the summer when the corn is out. Helly's not known one appear so early in the year, but one night earlier this week one appeared in a field of Rape.
Lots of humans believe aliens do them. They mysteriously appear in the night, no one sees them being made and they are perfectly formed.
Others think humans do them.
However, I KNOW the truth!
Because I'm visiting Wiltshire my family came to see me but I didn't know they were coming so I missed them. They left a message for me in the rape to tell me they missed me. They used high powered jets in the bottom of their space ship to create what looks like a pretty pattern to humans but I know what the symbol means.
The circles which are left later in the year are symbol messages to all the aliens who are living on this planet. All the humans who think other humans do the circles are wrong.
If you look closely at the picture with me in it - I'm the green streak on the left! - you'll see there's another message further down the slope on the right.
I know what it says but it's a secret message and not visable to humans from the road.
Posted Apr 26, 2008, 8:17 am
It looks to be some sort of transportation devise. It's so big many, many humans could fit on it.
I studied the diagram for some clues. It told me it was a white 'horse'. I then looked at another information point which suggested there are many of these 'white horses' across Wiltshire. Reading further it seems there is no purpose to these horses which are carved from the geological structure of earth.
Aren't humans a strange race!
Posted Apr 28, 2008, 6:21 pm
Lots of people were walking around the stones in a huge circle. Humans can't get close to the stones like they can at Avebury as the stones were being damaged.
After spending time looking at the stones from near the coach park I then looked at them from further away - can you see them? There were also lots of those funny creatures wearing woolly jumpers. The sun was out today, they must have been very hot!
The other thing I noticed today was that all the fields have the crop, rape, in them and they are all yellow. Just as well I like the colour yellow.
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Posted Apr 29, 2008, 7:27 pm
Wednesday I'm off to France for the weekend, I can't wait . . .
Posted May 5, 2008, 6:55 pm
Steve & Helly surprised me with a visit to France.
I'm off to the 2CV French National, I can't wait.
Here I am at Dover waiting to travel on a very strange mode of earth transport - in addition to travelling in the 2CV! We don't have big seas where I come from so the earth creatures have invented this way of travelling, apparently it's called a boat and it floats.
Posted May 5, 2008, 6:58 pm
Here I am at the 2CV campsite and can you see me in the mirror of the car? There were 3000 2CVs, I didn't know there were so many and they came from all over Europe.
Posted May 5, 2008, 7:03 pm
I stopped at lunch time for a 'grand cafe', a big coffee. It was very tasty.
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I spent some time sitting and thinking about how awful the human race can be to each other.
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Hee, I've just found out I'm staying a little longer!!
Posted May 11, 2008, 6:36 pm
Posted May 11, 2008, 6:39 pm
A real gnome appeared!
This is Norman The Gnome and he and I got on very well indeed.
He's a house gnome and brings your home 'Good Luck'.
Posted May 11, 2008, 6:46 pm
look who I spotted on the computer . . .
Posted May 16, 2008, 7:42 am
Trouble is, I think you have to be a little bit bigger than we are to get a good leverage!
In the end I got fed up and lay back to rest.
Posted May 16, 2008, 7:45 am
I then walked to the bottom of the flight and looked back up.
I was a little disappointed there weren't many boats but Helly tells me I'm back in Devizes on Friday so I'll look again then.
Posted May 20, 2008, 7:29 am
However, I did squeeze in a visit to another white horse. This time it's Devizes' millenium horse.
(I also visited the local garden centre, looking for gnomes but guess what . . . they didn't have any!)
Posted May 20, 2008, 7:32 am
I climbed into my space bag and off I went . . .
'Bye Steve & Helly, hopefully I can come and visit again soon'.
Posted May 20, 2008, 7:36 am
In a seperate envelope are items to be sent to Melissa, ready for her scrapbook for Hank.
Look who's climbing in the envelope . . .
Norman can't bear to be parted from Auggie so he's flying to America to keep Melissa company and wait for Auggie's return.
Posted May 27, 2008, 2:47 pm
A cute little girl said hello to me.
She said her name is Miss E and she comes from Portugal. She helped me to get out of my spacebag.
I told her everything about my travels, she thought I was very lucky and she asked me if she could travel to Gardog too! Hmm... I don't really know!
Miss E had just prepared her lunch but she said there was enough for both of us. That's great because I'm very hungry!
Here I'm eating poffertjes, it's a traditional Dutch dish. It's very similar to pancakes but they are smaller.
And now I need some sleep before I'm going to explore the area where I am now! Bye!!!
Posted May 30, 2008, 6:39 pm
it's cold and the sky is grey. I have been told that this is the typical Dutch weather. Hmm... I sincerely hope it isn't always typical Dutch weather then! 
Miss E showed me around, she is in Goes for some weeks already, she is a wonderful tour guide!
Here is me with Miss E, in the background you can see an old bridge, made of stone. The bridge is part of the historical fortifications and long time ago there was a city gate at this place. The name of the gate was the Ganzepoort or Geese's gate in English!
The church behind me is the 'Grote of Maria Magdalenakerk'.
It's an interesting building and I could also have a quick look inside!
This is the museum in Goes, Historisch Museum De Bevelanden. There are expositions about Goes and surrounding area. If the weather doesn't change, I will certainly bring a visit!
This is the town hall of Goes, the town hall is located at the market place.
When we arrived at the market place, there was a wedding in the town hall. Unfortunately, we didn't see the happy couple but we saw their amazing car! Miss E told me about an event being held here recently with many old cars! I wish I could have seen that!
When we came home, we looked at Miss E's photos.
After that, I went for a walk around the harbour. These are ships! Hmmm... ships on water, not in space?!
This is the bridge that leads to the harbour, the bridge is manually operated by a bridgekeeper. I hope I can see the bridge again when some of these strange ships arrive!
This is just outside the harbour. I really love the views but the weather is so sad!
Back to the harbour. In the background is the same bridge. At this time, there aren't many ships in the harbour. Sometimes it's so crowded that you can almost walk from one side of the harbour to the other side, via the ships!
Some of the houses here are amazing! Look at the big house!
I am in the oldest part of Goes, on the way back home I saw some very cute houses.
Posted Jun 4, 2008, 6:43 pm
In Kinderdijk are 19 well preserved windmills. Nowhere else in the world, you can find so many windmills at one place, it looks a bit like a forest!
The windmills were built around 1740 for a drainage system. The area, called a polder, is below sea level and the mills drain the excess water via large paddle-wheels into the Lek river. Nowadays a modern pumping station has taken over the work of the mills.
First, of course, we had to explore the map because it's a large area.
At the entrance of the area, they explain about the water management. Here you can also see that Kinderdijk is a UNESCO site.
Behind us, you can see a part of the modern power-driven pumping station, the large screws bring the water out of the area, into the Lek river.
The first windmills, look behind us!
Wow!
Then we saw the cutest little ducks, swimming in the water and walking on the water lilies.
Allright! Back to the windmills! That's what we are here for!
One of the windmills can be visited, we didn't go inside but we could have a closer look here.
It's getting sunny!
After our walk we drove a bit. In the meantime, the sun turned the windmills in a beautiful colour!
Amazing!!!
Sad but true, it's time to go home!
But before we left, some little lambs wanted to talk to us.
Posted Jun 5, 2008, 3:12 pm
She is travelling to her next host in UK. Hmm.... that is the same country as where I was before I came here! I told her about the country and that made her smile again.
Bye bye Miss E!!!! I hope we'll meet again!
Posted Jun 10, 2008, 8:32 pm
I'm getting ready to support the Dutch team together with the Welpies!
And we are singing the Welpies song!
Alle Welpies helpen, we plakken ons wild.
Geluk voor Oranje, heel Holland slaat op tilt.
It's about to begin and I'm so nervous!
This is Marco van Basten, he is the manager of the Dutch national team and previously, he was a football player.
Ooh! The ball is about to enter the goal!
It is a goal for the Dutch team!!
And another goal! It made me turn a somersault!
Netherlands won, 3-0 and the goals were scored by Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Wesley Sneijder and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Congratulations to the Dutch team! Here's the goalkeeper, Edwin van der Sar.
After the game, the whole stadium turned orange and everyone was happy!
Posted Jun 22, 2008, 4:01 pm
The good thing is, I can see some of the visited places again!
Here we go, this is close to Jiles' home. Goes has an historical city centre and long time ago Goes was a fortified city. These days, only a few parts of the historical fortifications are left and the places where the city gates used to be are marked with marble stones.
This is me in front of some of the beautiful houses alongside the canal.
This villa is just awesome, it's different from the other houses here.
See the Dutch flag? It is because someone who's living in that house has graduated from secondary school. You can't see on the photo but there is also a schoolbag hanging there!
The canal and in the background the same church as I've visited before! Hmm... there are some people on the other side of the water, I wonder what they are doing! Let's have a closer look......
It seems they are fishing!
The park around here is a popular place for dogs. The dog dirt was a problem, remember the fishing people who were sitting in the grass?
To avoid them getting dirty, people can get free bags here, to clean the dirt their dog left!
Isn't this a beautiful place?
There you can see the geese, too bad they were on the other side of the water and no bridge near!
This building is the secondary school Jiles went to, the name of the school is 'Goese Lyceum'.
This are the same flowers as I've seen at Kinderdijk, water lilies! But I haven't seen so many at one place before!
Posted Jul 15, 2008, 12:41 pm
But before I leave, I show you my new friend here, the garden gnome! He was so hidden that I only met him now!
We have a visitor today, a dog! That means I have seen at least 5 different Earth animals, cats, dinosaurs, geese, sheep, ducks and a dog. A life mission completed!
He helped me in my travelbag.
Bye Auggie, I wish you a safe flight to USA and fun travelling!
Posted Jul 25, 2008, 7:57 am
They said they'd never seen an alien before! I asked them what state I was in, I didn't know what AP stand for and my host Jayme came in and said I wasn't in the states at all! What?! She said FPO (I THOUGHT that was a funny name for a city!) stands for Fleet Post Office and AP stands for Asian Pacific. It was a US military address! I'm on a military base in Japan! Wow!
Hugme gave me a hug because he said I looked shocked!
The others told me the first thing we had to do was business related unfortunately. Jayme's little boy was hurt, and we had to go to the hospital so we could make sure he didn't have an infection. Here's Hugme giving him a hug and you can see his poor eye.
Going to the hospital meant going to Camp Lester, location of the military hospital on Okinawa. Here's the sign inside the gate. The flag above means that it's hot outside and to take precautions not to get heat stroke or heat exhaustion.
And here I am outside the hospital!
Good news! Jacob's going to be just fine and all he has to do is take benadryl. Jayme said that's really bad news since it makes him hyper, but I bet we'll have lots of fun over the next few days!
Write more soon,
Auggie
Posted Jul 29, 2008, 5:10 am
Near the water park area is a wall with many murals of sea creatures.
There was also a xylophone to play on.
Finally we stopped by the beach during part of our walk for a small break.
After our walk we had to go home to rest for awhile
Auggie
Posted Jul 29, 2008, 5:14 am
The view is a little nicer from my space ship, but still this is pretty good for humans!
I even got to drive a train around!
After that we went to play this weird game called bowling. I wonder why they didn't just walk down and knock the pins over?
Write more soon,
Auggie
Posted Jul 29, 2008, 5:17 am
Here I am in front of a F-104
Here we are on the wing of an F-4
And here's an F-15! Jayme's husband wanted to put us in the engine to take the picture, but these old fashioned engines look rather dangerous to me!
Write more soon!
Auggie
Posted Jul 29, 2008, 8:27 am
They bring out all the vehicles for a backdrop for the actual ceremonies.
The band leads the way with the ceremonies.
Followed by the unit Marine Corps flags
Then the Marines finally show up!
And the Japanese, USA, and Marine Corps flag.
There's my hosts husband representing his unit with their guidon (the smaller flag)
Each unit pays their respects as well.
Then it got kind of boring as each CO gave a speech
Everyone filed back out in reverse order and we were dismissed.
Hope to write about more adventures soon!
Auggie
Posted Jul 30, 2008, 9:37 pm
They had lots of fun stone animals that you could climb on. The kids especially loved the lion and elephant.
To my surprised I got to see some REAL animals! WOW! I suppose that's what they're supposed to keep at a zoo?!
Can you see the hippo?
Here a chimpanzee
I stayed far away from the ostriches, though the giraffe looked nice..
Lazy lion
Ohh and finally an elephant!
How neat! I got to meet many more earth animals today!
Write more soon,
Auggie
Posted Aug 4, 2008, 11:53 pm
Once we were done there we took a walk. Jacob pointed out the sun was playing peekaboo.
After walking for awhile we got to look back and where we'd walked from. Do you see the lighthouse in the distance?
Along our walk were many World War II memorials.
There was also this really big rock. It got blown way high up here on top of the cliff by a typhoon!
We headed home and had to say goodbye to Shirley Sheep. Hope she has fun at her next host!
Write more soon,
Auggie
Posted Aug 7, 2008, 12:48 am
Finally I learned a 5th way to say hello!... but wait.. Japan is a very confusing country! You say hello different ways depending on the time of day!
So this is how you say hello in the morning!
And this is how you say hello in the afternoon!
And this is how you say hello in the evening!
And this is how you say goodbye
And this is how you say thank you.
And this is how you say I'm sorry.
And most importantly, this is how you say "Where's the toilet?"
I'll write more soon!
Auggie
Posted Aug 11, 2008, 4:30 am
It was very fun! I didn't know digging in the sand could be that interesting!
And I took a break to lounge and soak up some sun rays.
There was a neat play area for children near the beach that looked like a ship according to Jayme. I don't think that thing would even make it as far as the moon though..
Write more soon,
Auggie
Posted Aug 12, 2008, 8:07 am
Hmm...here it is. Its a bit of a walk up...
Jayme said this area here was a cave/shrine.
Oh no! More stairs?! They look like they could use a little repair...
And here's the remains of another shrine.
WOW! After all that walking the view from up top is very beautiful!
And here's the view of the lower part of the castle.
Very neat!
Write more soon,
Auggie
Posted Aug 19, 2008, 12:34 am
We also walked by the gate to Shurijo Castle, but unfortunately it was closed for the evening.
Once we were done with the walk we went to a play area for the kids so Jayme could relax some. They had a neat room filled with lots of balloons!
Here's some more of the play area.
Interesting way for humans to exhaust their children..
After that we headed home to rest! I'll update again soon.
Auggie
Posted Aug 22, 2008, 7:23 am
There was another Shisa here as well! They're everywhere here...
Once we were all down I got into my envelope to head on home and to teach Hank all about my travels. What a great trip I had though!
Auggie
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