Tortilla, Dallas, Texas, USA

Fleurdunord


Posted Jan 23, 2008, 1:07 pm
here is Tortilla, probably going to travel soon ...
Fleurdunord


Posted Jan 28, 2008, 6:51 pm
Tortilla is flying today to Germany. She was very exited and was busy packing, getting her passport ...
She plans to discover Brunei after germany.
If anyone would like to welcome Tortilla after, please pm me ... i'll be happy to welcome some toys too ...
Fleurdunord


Posted Jan 29, 2008, 5:37 pm
just to update Tortilla's travels plan :
1. Germany
2. Brunei
3. Texas

anyone to be Tortilla's host after ?
BlackCat


Posted Feb 4, 2008, 10:29 am
Hello mum,

I arrived safety today at Fabi's home. She has to take me at the post office, because the post man was too stupid to use the door bell, but I am here now.
Fabi doesn't feel well today, so we decided to stay at home. I think there will be some photos very soon!
But now I am tired and I will sleep for some hours.
I will write you when I wake up!

Have a nice day,
Tortilla
BlackCat


Posted Feb 6, 2008, 3:08 am
Hello mum,

I arrived safety. But I was a little afraid because there was a dog welcome me.
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I was so afraid and first I don't want to come out.
But then Fabi (my host) said, that I should come out.
So I looked out and saw the dog. He introduced himself as Wauzi, a homestayed Toy Voyager.
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So I came out and we talked a lot. It was allready late, so we decided to go to bed.
It was a great welcome :)!

Love you,
Tortilla
BlackCat


Posted Feb 6, 2008, 3:11 am
Hello mum,

today we stayed at home because Fabi (my host) is ill. She didn't want to go out. So we made us some food and watched TV.
Later, we decided to play Monopoly. I was really good, mum. I had a lot of money and a lot of streets. It was funny.
We also made some photos of it. I hope you like them :)! Can you see how much fun it was?
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Hopefully we will play again. It was a funny game.
We have no plans for tomorrow until now, but maybe we will go out. The weather is bad at the moment but we hope all, that it will turn better.

Have a nice day, mum,
yours Tortilla
BlackCat


Posted Feb 15, 2008, 8:50 am
Hello mum,

today we went to the Ruhr - a river here in Essen :)!
We saw a lot of animals :)! It was such a nice day.
We have some new visitors here: Chokito and Davy! Fabi wants to show us her city and her favourite places. So we went to the Ruhr, where her favourite place is!
Here are some photos:
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A swan ^^
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The Ruhr :)
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A deer - it is far away, but we all saw it :)!
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We are all in Fabi's backpack in front of the Ruhr
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Can you see me?! :)
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Here I am sitting on a fence :)! It was a nice view.
Nice photos, or?! :) We had a lot of fun :)!
Have a nice day,
Tortilla
BlackCat


Posted Feb 15, 2008, 8:53 am
Hello mummy,

after the visit at the Ruhr we went to the old city part of 'Recklinghausen' (a part of Essen).
There we saw the old train station. But there was no real station, there was a shop and a monument for the station.
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Here we are sitting on the monument.
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I'm climbing up, can you see?!
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What a nice place :)!
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An old church :)! It was a nice view.

Have a nice day,
Tortilla
BlackCat


Posted Feb 24, 2008, 3:34 pm
Hello mummy,

a lot of other toy voyagers arrived here the last days.
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Here you can see me with my new friend Josh! We are the smallest ones here :)!

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Here you can see us :)! We have a lot of fun together :)!
You can see Chokito, me, Wauzi, Josh, Davy and [/tv]Bullet[/tv]!

Have a wonderful day mummy,
Tortilla
BlackCat


Posted Feb 24, 2008, 3:57 pm
Hello :)!

We visited a friend of Fabi today. Her friend is named Vanessa and she has a sweet and friendly dog. I was allowed to play with Vanessa's hat and in her bed. We had a lot of fun. And we make some nice pictures:

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It was such a funny day and I was really tired after that ;)!

Have a nice day mummy,
Tortilla
fam-united


Posted Mar 28, 2008, 1:19 pm
Hi mummy,

I just wanted to let you know, that I arrived in Bruchsal. Petra is really busy, but we all wanted her to get in contact with our family before the human guests arrive. Petra told us, that her daughter celebrates her birthday today, altough her birthday was in December. It seems to be a funny family.

Bye, Tortilla

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fam-united


Posted Mar 29, 2008, 6:34 pm
Hurray!!! Hurray!!!

We had a little party today!!!



We had some snacks and water to drink and a lot to laugh about, of course. Dogs became friends with cats, a turtle with a kangaroo, a monkey with a moose and more.

We played with a big and a small ball and we learned how to play the card game "Mau Mau".


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Didn't the table look nice?


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Mingus Moose prefered to sit on the ballon.


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(Playmo)Bill decided to not eat anything, because he was afraid to be too thick for his hobby.


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Bullet wanted all the peanuts for himself.

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Coco first had been a bit sad, because there was no honey on the table, but she liked the gouda then.


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How did (Playmo)Bill come to that peanut? Maybe he asked Mingus Moose???


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HolidayHarry had been really thirsty after eating a lot of sweets.


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Florence is very hungry and wants to try a chocolate banana muffin.


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Pebbels thought, that the Harry Potter muffin looked nice. It was a muffin with blueberries. Curly took the chocolate banana muffin too.


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Amara Anthea tried a muffin american style, just on with chocolate drops.


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AliG seemed to play the detective. What did he expect to find out today???


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Do you see how happy Josh and me look with this dish filled with gummi bears?


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Chokito, Davy and Schnuffi shared another Harry Potter muffin.


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Only Hasi prefered something healthy - she wanted to eat a carrot.


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Tilda hadn't been sure, whether she should try a "nimm 2 " or whether it is better to eat a carrot too.



Then we started playing with balls. At first we choose the Australian ball, but it was so big, that the little toyvoyager among us had big problems.

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Later we decided to use a table tennis ball, which of course is much easier to play with.

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At last we learned how to play "Mau Mau".

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Our first winner was: Chokito
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Second place: Bullet
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Third place: Hasi
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Fourth place: Pebbels
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fam-united


Posted Apr 9, 2008, 7:56 pm
Today was one of the rare sunny days. Petra came home from school and packed her rucksack to show us some places in Bruchsal. She didn't have so much time for it, because she had to go back to school for a teachers' meeting.

Here you see the backfront of the palace.
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This is the Feldkirchle (field chapel)
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Next to the Feldkirchle (field chapel) you see this cross
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and these beautiful flowers
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fam-united


Posted Apr 10, 2008, 11:53 am
Today it's time for baking cakes for my host's mum's birthday. She is 70 years now and Petra was asked to bake two cakes: Donauwellenkuchen (Danube waves cake) and Zebrakuchen (zebra cake). Petra decided to bake a surprise cake too, with a part of the Happy Birthday song.

We sat all together watching and helping Petra with preparing the dough.

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So here are the photos with me. If you are interested in recipes, I can try to ask Petra to write them here or send them to you.

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Petra's daughter took me outside for a short walk
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You see, I'm not that fast.

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Do you see me? Petra thought, that she put everyone in the right position, but she must have forgotten me!!!

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Finally the cakes are ready

The nougat cream cake:
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only the words "Happy birthday" have to be put on the cake now.

The Zebra-cake
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Somehow we miss the last photo of the Danube waves cake, the one with the cherries.
fam-united


Posted Apr 27, 2008, 12:02 pm
Today Kari arrived at home again and he told us a lot about Australia. Now I know, that Kira1997 send him to my host family as a present for their daughter some years ago. He wanted to see them again, so he decided to go to Australia as a toyvoyager.

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Posted Apr 27, 2008, 12:45 pm
Maybe you heard about the Buran arriving in Speyer? The new home will be the technical museum in Speyer: http://www.museumspeyer.de/index.html

The Buran ( the only space shuttle of the Soviet Buran program)was only on one unmanned spaceflight in 1988. The shuttle program was cancelled in 1993. It was destroyed by a hangar collapse in 2003.
The Buran is the world's first genuine space shuttle to be exhibited to the general public.

Petra wanted to go there to watch the arrival, but the weather was too bad, so we only got the chance to read the newspaper

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fam-united


Posted Apr 27, 2008, 1:37 pm
While the most of us were so lazy - maybe because it was raining so often?!? - Davy, Florence and I decided to join Sabrina and her friend, when they wanted to go out with the bikes. I can tell you, that we really had some fun. We jumped and ran around and the kids tried to catch us again - very very difficult, you can believe it. And I'm sure, you see, how much fun it was to go outside after such a long time.

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fam-united


Posted Apr 27, 2008, 10:05 pm
I had a really great day today. The sun was shining and it was really warm. Now I believe, that it is springtime.
Petra woke up early and told us to get ready to for a walk. We were very curious and excited of course. First we bought some bread rolls for breakfast (only a few bakeries or open on Sundays) and then we brought Ralf to work (normally he doesn't work on Sundays).

And then we drove in the car for about 15 minutes. We sat in the rucksack and you can believe me, it wasn't the best way to travel.

After we walked a little bit, we found this sign:

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It told us the rules, how we had to behave at this place.

Oh, you surely want to know, where we were. There is a small Japanese Garden not far away from Bruchsal in Münzesheim, which Petra was told, that it is really pretty. She never had been there before, but now she wanted to go there together with us.

So now look at the photos and enjoy!

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I saw a part of the Berlin Wall:
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This building was very interesting, especielly the ceiling, which was made of white and blue bottles.
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Posted May 5, 2008, 5:08 pm
I think, I forgot to tell something about the history of Bruchsal.
Bruchsal was first named in 976 A.D., but since a few weeks we know, that it must be even older than this. They found something next to a church and realized that this is really old. I had been very curious to get to know more about this, but the weather was so terrible, that we had no chance to go there.
So you only see the most interesting places here. Petra was in a hurry, so the photos aren't that great she says.
Here you see the backsite of the palace and a part of the palace garden. The palace was nearly completely destroyed during the Second World War and rebuilt around 1973.

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Posted May 5, 2008, 5:52 pm
Because the weather was much better than the days before, we drove to Untergrombach, which is one of the suburbs of Bruchsal. The Michaelsberg, a small hill - only 296m high, belongs to Untergrombach. You have a wonderful view over the Rhine valley and if the weather is very very good, you can see the Palatine Mountains in the far.
3500 - 2600 BC first signs of humans had been found on this place, the "Michelsberg culture".

This view shows a part of Bruchsal, which is at the border between Rhine Valley and Kraichgau.

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The quarry pond belongs to Untergrombach, which you see on this photo. This is the best view to see the Palatine Mountains on the horizon, but today we had no luck.

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You see another part of Untergrombach. You see, that it is also to the border of the Kraichgau.

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This nice chapel is called Michaelskapelle and it is on top of the Michaelsberg. Petra told me, that there are many couples, that want to marry in this chapel.

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Here you see so-called "Steinriegel" (field clearance cairn), made by people working on their fields a long long time ago. They threw the big stones from their fields to the border of the neighbour's field, so that in the middle all stones were accumulated. Many animals and flowers love this gaunt places and that's why a few weeks ago, people cleaned the Steinriegel from all the earth, that came between the stone during the many many years and from all the other plants, that love to grow in earth.

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Another word I learned is "Magerrasen" (neglected grassland), which is typical for the Michaelsberg. The town you see is Untergrombach.

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The Michaelsberg is nature reserve area, I'm sure, you already realized this too. There are beautiful rare flowers and animals.

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KopyKat


Posted May 16, 2008, 2:00 pm
Hello!  I have arrived safely to Texas.  I hope to have some adventure and pics soon.

Tortilla

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