mr. grey, Virginia, USA

hsuan1223 Posted Sep 24, 2008, 10:10 am	future hosts samsmith621-usa(visited) sararingham-au Apperveilchen-germany bag0beans-usa max is going to usa to samsmith621.(08.9.27) hello,i was named by my host because of my color. actually,you can call me max. i found that having a name like humans do will be good for my mission. today my host take me for an icecream. it tasted sweet and soar flavor, something between water and ice. my host loves it. many people love it,too. by the way,please meet my co-workers on this planet
samsmith621 Posted Oct 8, 2008, 5:20 am	Today I arrived at my first host's house! Her name is Sam and she lives in a small town in Pennsylvania called Glen Lyon. I heard someone jumping on my transport pod.  I climbed out to see what it was. It was a goat, he's another Toy Voyager called Horny Haggis. I can't wait to see what we get to do together!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 11, 2008, 5:06 am	Sam came home from work today and... Another package arrived today! I wonder what it is?!? It's Friedrich! Friedrich is much bigger than Horny Haggis and I, but he is very nice. Well it's time to get going to bed, Sam says we are getting up early to go to Claws N Paws which is a zoo! I am excited!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 12, 2008, 3:31 pm	We got up early today and went to Claws N Paws. It's a really neat zoo in the woods... There were a bunch of places to pose and get your pictures taken! Here's Sam pretending she's a turtle... with myself, Horny Haggis and Friedrich! Here's Sam with us pretending she is a kangaroo and we are in her pouch... And here we are hatching from a dinosaur egg! I can't wait to see what else we get to do!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 15, 2008, 4:17 am	Last night we stayed at Sam's friends house, we decided to go visit Boulder Field today! It's a field that is huge and full of Boulders. It was formed from the ice age. Here we are at Boulder Field!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 22, 2008, 4:28 am	Today, Sam and her friend James drove to Hamburg, PA! They brought myself, Horny Haggis and Freidrich along for the trip. They went to a weight lifting competition first... just to watch, although I think James might compete in the next one. Anywho, after that we went to this great place called Kaufman's Chicken... and they have a mini golf course. Here we are with the giant chicken they have in the parking lot! And here we are on a few different holes on the mini golf course!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 22, 2008, 4:29 am	Today we said goodbye to Horny Haggis, he is on his way to his next host! He was alot of fun to spend time with... I can't wait to see what other Toy Voyagers I get to meet!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 26, 2008, 2:02 am	Today a package came... Who could it be? It's Misko!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 26, 2008, 2:13 am	Another package arrived today! Who could it be? It's Arya!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 26, 2008, 2:24 am	Today a package arrived! I wonder who it is??? Out popped Hoppity! Sam said depending on the weather tomorrow, we might get to explore Glen Lyon!
samsmith621 Posted Oct 28, 2008, 6:25 pm	It was still raining outside today so we didn't get to go anywhere. We decided to stay home and play video games. We played Rock Band. Here I am with the guitar!
samsmith621 Posted Nov 18, 2008, 11:14 pm	Sam (my host) has been very busy lately... she got a part time job on the side so she can buy Christmas presents for people... We helped her put up her Christmas tree today, she said it's a lot earlier than most people put up their tree, but that's okay because her and her husband love Christmas!
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 1, 2008, 8:59 am	I have arrived! It's the first day of Summer here... pretty strange that it is Summer in December. Who would know. Sara says a lot of the toyvoyagers that she has been hosting have been sent off the last few weeks and four of them just today... it's only me Brunswick, Kroko and Resi... I wonder what I'll see here... I'll update again soon with photos! <3
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 14, 2008, 6:35 am	Today we decided to take our first trip... we hadn't been anywhere recently since Sara's been busy going to the gym and everything so I haven't been able to see much yet... but Sara's going to try to change that for me so I can see this area... anyways, today it was really hot outside but we all packed ourselves into the car and headed out to Bathurst... Bathurst is a 45 minute drive away with little to nothing in between Orange and Bathurst but I'll show you the "sights" anyways... :-) This is just exiting Orange.. it's still got a lot of farmland just outside of the trees... but it does create an illusion of a lot of trees doesn't it? Maybe 5-10 minutes outside of Orange are a couple vineyards. Orange is famous for it's vineyards. There are two huge ones outside of Orange, and there's a whole heap of smaller ones near Mount Canobolas which we'll see a bit later on... :-) Just outside of all land which has all the vineyards on it is the tiniest town ever... it's called Lucknow, it's literally a one road town, this is it.. what you see is what you get... with lots of farmland... but there's a coffee shop, some kind of strange antique shop, and some huge gold mines that have been abandoned for years... I'll go into that a little bit later though... another day - another thing to see. :-) You'll find a lot of the road to Bathurst looks a lot like this... not really that interesting, but sure are a lot of sheep and cows... ...one thing that's very Australian - the famous red dirt - the dirt that's got a LOT of iron in it... one of Australia's big export to other countries... we've got a lot of it... ...another thing you see, lots of kangaroo signs, and occasionally the kangaroo road kill as well... which is pretty sad but I guess it happens everywhere with native wildlife... we didn't see any kangaroos this time, even though we did go searching... :-( Maybe next time... We're almost there now... don't know if you'd know it though - still looks a lot like farmland to me... ...Welcome to Bathurst...
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 14, 2008, 6:57 am	Well, now that were finally in Bathurst we saw one of Bathurst main things to see... usually Sara takes all toyvoyagers onto the Mount Panorama race track... but for some reason it was closed... we had a bit of a look around and they were having a race today... not the HUGE Bathurst 1000 but some smaller race... we couldn't do much but stand back and watch... The famous Mount Panorama sign, this is right in front of the starting gate... and then we saw some of the race cars... I'm not in these photos because Sara was so zoomed in that I wouldn't have looked like anything but a blur... sorry about that! But I can promise, if I'm still with Sara next month we'll be going back to Bathurst and hopefully this time we can see some kangaroos too! :-) We also got to see the newly famous Peter Brock Statue he died a day or something after Steve Irwin died in 2006, he died in a race but he was known as "king of the mountain"... so they made him a statue an put it up for this years races in the beginning of October... ...just as we were leaving we saw another race car coming in... it means this must not have been anything but qualifying but it was still cool to watch for a while... I hope you enjoyed my time in Bathurst... hopefully I'll go back again soon! Write again soon mom! Miss you!
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 14, 2008, 7:20 am	The weather has been really crazy the last few days... when we went to Bathurst it was really warm out - cloudy but very very warm... the last few days it's been really rainy and cold... with very high winds... the weather changes here are so crazy sometimes... but hey, I'm enjoying the cooler weather while it lasts... :-)
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 7:26 am	Today we took a very unexpected trip... Sara had to plan quickly as they only realized they were going yesterday... but we had a lot to see this time... I won't tell you where were heading as it was a big trip but our first stop was Bathurst... this time Sara actually saw some kangaroos... ...the kangaroos were a LOT farther than normal this time... the first photo the photo was taken with a 12x zoom, the other photos it was 48x zoom... if that also would explain why I'm not in the photo... I would say I'll never get enough of seeing these little (or not so little) guys. :-) More to come...
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 7:36 am	Maybe you have an idea of where were going now? You look at the map and you probably already know... but next stop was Lithgow, we stopped to see the huge mining lantern again while we got our bearings before moving back onto the road... here I am in front of the mining lantern... if you can see where there used to be a "flame" is now a Christmas tree... :-) We had to go to the bank as well to pull out a bit of money so we had to go and search for the bank down the main street of Lithgow, this is what the rest of the town looks like... ...looks not much different from Orange and Bathurst... nor does the middle of Sydney - lots of older buildings... with Lithgow, even though it's much closer to Sydney than Orange and Bathurst a lot of the business have gone out of business... it's very empty... kind of strange isn't it? Hold tight there's still way more to come! :-)
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 7:49 am	Welcome to Sydney! We're here... well... not quite yet... were currently in the outskirts of Sydney in the towns of Penrith and Paramatta... pretty large cities though... here are some of the photos from Paramatta as we were going through... sorry were not in them it's hard to take photos so quickly as your going through the towns... ...you wouldn't know from these photos but navigating through even the outskirts of Sydney is very hard sometimes - one wrong turn and your in another suburb and totally lost... lol there's another little while before were there - but first we have a stop off to make...
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 7:59 am	We were going to Sydney to look at a car - our current car needs a lot of fixing up so were getting another one that uses LPG (propane) for fuel, so fuel is half the price... so were going to see a 2000 Ford AU Falcon, the newest car we've ever had... where we were seeing the car was in Riverside but we decided to check out a bay called Tambourine Bay right down the street... it was quite beautiful! :-) Here are some trees around the bay, these ones are interesting looking aren't they? ...but what's cool are these trees... ...these are called Morton Bay Fig Trees... they're native only to Sydney and one of the original trees that Sydney was full of before it became really civilized.. aren't they cool looking? As we were going a small walk down to the bay here's what we saw above the trees... and of course here I am in front of the bay... isn't it pretty? the water was also very very warm... it's amazing to think the ocean could be so warm...
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 8:11 am	This wasn't just our first time going through Sydney like this - this was also Sara's... we had just gotten our GPS navigator so Sara and Daniel cruised through Sydney and were able to see somethings they never thought they see - and places they never thought existed... so next stop was Cockatoo Island... when they were driving through they realized one thing... it's a very rich area, there were HUGE houses and they all looked very expensive... Sara made her way down the hill with us and almost jumped out of her skin when she saw what was there... ...Sara hasn't ever had a chance to show some toyvoyagers the Sydney Harbor Bridge like this, and it was a beautiful view point of the bridge - it would be an awesome place to sit if you were going to see the fireworks on New Years Eve... The other photo is of the AMP tower and the Sydney skyline... sadly you can't see the opera house from here... but there's more to see... how exciting is that? After we went to Cockatoo Island and saw the awesome harbor bridge and the AMP tower we went to a point called Onion Point... there wasn't much to see - we had to walk along a dock to see anything and this was the view... As we were heading back to the car we saw these really strange flowers? Aren't they pretty though? ...there's more coming... :-) Write again soon!
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 8:20 am	We just happened to be going right through the central business district of Sydney... which is to put it lightly very scary to go through... lots of traffic, lots of people, lots of roads... people don't usually like to drive through it... you walk or you taxi or bus it since it's so confusing... but the GPS put us directly in the centre of the CBD of Sydney so Sara got a few shots before going back out of the CBD heading towards our next stop... here are some of the shots in the middle of the city... ...we were getting a bit lost and we only had a little bit longer to spend at our next stop... plus we kind of got lost... but there's more to come! :-)
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 8:29 am	Well next stop was Balls Head... sounds like a funny name... really quite actually but Sara was amazed by the sights she saw when we were up at the "peak"... there was a lot of steep hills around where we were driving and then bang! We were there... these are some of the things we saw... ...here's the Anzac Bridge... Sara's never been on it but it's one of the other more famous bridges in Sydney.... ...we also got to see a much closer shot of the AMP tower... ...as you can see there is a lot of cargo ships going in and out of the harbor as well, here's one of them... It was a really clear and hot day despite the darkness of the photos (we were in a lot of trees) as you can see there were a lot of people on boats and at the beaches today... ...and as we were driving back down... we saw something that made us pull over... I only had a very short time to take photos or I would have gotten all of us out of the car for a photo but this shows how close we were to the harbor bridge and the opera house... Isn't that just gorgeous? Too bad we couldn't see the whole opera house as was planned for today... but this isn't it? Sara took us to see something a bit more exciting (she thought anyways)... back on the road...
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Dec 18, 2008, 8:42 am	Last stop today was Manly Beach, one of the most popular Sydney beaches... it was very beautiful... one of Sydney's most famous beaches is called Bondi beach, but it's usually so packed that we don't even bother... there was sadly not much to do for us little toyvoyagers so we got a photo and then we went back to the car so we weren't taken or hurt by being left on the beach... here I am in front of the beach... isn't it gorgeous? ...before we went back to the safety of the car one of the seagulls decided to come and check us out - I think he thought we were food... ...here are some other shots of the beach... isn't the water so pretty? It was also very very warm as well... sadly Sara and everyone wasn't ready for the beach so they couldn't go very deep in the water... but Sara enjoyed taking photos... ...and just as we were about to leave a whole bunch of people came in from what seemed like out of no where... there was maybe 20-30 kayakers... some professional, some more or less beginner but it was quite fun to see them coming in and out. Sara thinks they were practicing for a triathlon... they had a lot of fun playing in the waves... We had spent over an hour at the beach, it was time to head home... it was going on 7pm and it was a 3 and a bit hour drive home... it's been a long LONG day I hope you enjoyed seeing Sydney through my eyes... we hope to go back again next month! If I'm still here I'll get to see a bit more of the Sydney beaches! Write again soon mom, we have another big trip coming up at the end of this month! Miss you!
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Jan 10, 2009, 4:27 am	Well I've moved on... I've got a 1st class ticket to Germany! I wonder what I'll see there... I saw some amazing stuff while in Australia I hope to see some more amazing stuff before moving on again! Miss you mom but I'll update the moment I get to Germany! :-)
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Jan 10, 2009, 5:37 am	Today we took another trip to Bathurst and boy it was a REALLY hot day... it got up to 34'c with absolutely no wind... I couldn't believe it! Just sitting around everyone was sweating. Thankfully Sara's new car has air conditioning so we had the windows up all the way to Bathurst while she was listening to music. Because we were in a rush we got a few errands done first but then we went and saw some kangaroos... Sara says she has never seen kangaroos this close before (while in Bathurst)... so we all were in the car looking out since they were... RIGHT there... here I am... that gives you an indication of how close to the car they are when I'm in the shot... ...here are a few other photos Sara took of the kangaroos... mostly while in the car but the moment she got out... well you can see what happens... she actually got a few feet closer to them before they all bounced off... how cool... :-) Sara told us a story about her around 2.5 years ago she went down to the South coast and was actually able to pat some kangaroos... wild kangaroos... their were around 5 kangaroos, one adult, and 4 babies or juvenile joey's and she just walked right up to them and fed them and rubbed their head. It was amazing. :-) So this was awesome as well for her and us... Well, remember when we went to the race track last time and we couldn't get on it? Well... this time we could... as you can see it was open this time... :-P here I am on the way to the race track and the view showing us the track is open to tourists today... ...So we decided it was time to go around the track... sadly I couldn't sit on the dashboard like Sara usually puts the toyvoyagers but this time it's a new car and their dashboard we easily slip around and the window was open. Sara didn't want any of us to be lost... so here's some pictures from around the track... Well that was mainly our day in Bathurst. We didn't want to spend long outside we could feel our skin burning even under all our fur. It was kind of surprising how hot it was! :-/ Crazy! Sara doesn't like the heat much either lol... Also as you can see on the track there's houses and everything on the inside of the track. People rent those houses out during the famous Mount Panorama Super Cheap Auto 1000 Races and they go on holiday. People will rent them out for heaps of money each October... there's vineyards and even wildlife sometimes in there. Kangaroos are commonly seen on the race track which can end in disaster as I'm sure you can see why... people walk the track all the time as well (when races aren't on obviously). Also the view from the top of the mountain is amazing isn't it? Well I hope you enjoyed my trip to Bathurst.
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Jan 10, 2009, 7:33 am	It's just before Christmas and it's time to take a trip... me and my toyvoyager friends are unsure about where were are going but Sara insists we are going to have a lot of fun... here I am as we are driving through Molong. ...as you can tell it's very dark and rainy... but through these photos I insist you'll see how random the weather can be in this part of Australia...
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Jan 10, 2009, 7:42 am	Next stop was Wellington, a larger town than Molong... I guess around the same size as Orange (with 38,000 people). There's sadly not much to see or do here but here I am... ...and here are some photos as we are driving through the main street of Wellington as you can see there's not much to see. Although we had no time to stop we were already running a little late.... so moving on...
sararingham sara.ringham@gmail.com Posted Jan 10, 2009, 8:12 am	First off, sorry I'm not really in any of the photos next... Sara had a hard time getting in and out of the car with a 2 year old let alone with all of the toyvoyagers... we saw most of it - but the pictures really tell the story. :-) Enjoy! Well... we have arrived in Dubbo... after a 2.5 hour drive were finally here... we've been through rain and sun and it's already pretty hot here. Dubbo has temperatures that are very similar to Africa. So they have a major breeding program with the African animals. They successfully breed a lot of endangered animals so the heat is normal but quite uncomfortable... :-) Well we've arrived at the zoo... In these photos you can see the entrance to the zoo... it kind of looks a lot like the entrance to Jurassic Park doesn't it? Also the little cars you can rent to drive around the zoo. Since the zoo is so huge you can either drive, walk or bike around the zoo... Well now that were at the zoo, it's started to rain... the wild dogs were underneath a tree keeping dry... not many animals were moving much since it was raining so much... Well we decided to move on anyways... we can't stop the rain... but then it REALLY started to come down... we were standing near the camels and Arabian sheep when we ran to an enclosed area (at least the top of us was covered). ...the animals didn't really enjoy it so grouped together... and then it started to hail... so they all ran in every direction. You could barely see them even though they were right in front of you... crazy... ...and then we decided to deal with the rain (after the hail) and ran down to see the black rhino. Which is one of the babies that were successfully bred in the zoo... obviously he's not a baby anymore... Within 5 minutes... it was done raining, the sun was out and it was heating up. Within 5 minutes the rhino went from soaking to totally bone dry (as the photos show)... so we decided to go and visit the Arabian sheep and camels again... Then the giraffes... Sara was going to feed the giraffes today but was 30 seconds (literally) too late for signing up... so she was a bit sad about that since last time they missed feeding the giraffes as well... but they did come pretty close anyways... This next photo shows you what the zoo looks like with the less dangerous animals. So the giraffes, zebras, any "safe" animals (more or less) you could get quite close... you could stand on this hill and then the fence was below... it's quite an amazing experience... but this shows you how close the giraffes can get to you (they've gotten even closer)... Sara then went and saw a talk on the hippos... the females are separated from the bull hippos which are extremely territorial. The zoo keeper told them about how the hippo population in the Democratic Republic of Congo went from 29,000 hippos in the 70's and 80's to 700 hippos last year when they checked. It's kind of sad really... they sprayed some water in their mouth since they really enjoy that it's almost like a massage for their mouth. Also shows off their amazing teeth... this picture is one of the bulls... Next stop was the less endangered white rhino... he was all alone but the group of the others was in some shade... not sure why he didn't want to be there... but obviously he did because he walked over there a few minutes later... Next stop was the cheetah's... now where's the mom? Sadly the mom died during complications while giving birth to one of the two cheetahs... via emergency c-section... so they had doubts the babies would survive. So they had someone stay there 24 hours a day 7 days a week to take care and feed the babies every hour on the hour... thankfully they made it... even without a mom they're very happy little cats... ...and then we got to see the African elephants. They were doing a talk on them at the time I took these photos so you can see all the people and the zoo keeper and everything feeding them. I love elephants they're very beautiful creatures... ...next stop was the Siberian tiger. Sara hasn't ever been able to see him before... he's always been hiding and sadly it didn't take long before he went and laid down in the shade where he all but disappeared. You can tell how hot it is when the tiger is panting... :-P Near the tiger are the bongo's... the baby was there - who wasn't there the last time I visited in October... isn't he adorable? The first time Sara visited in February 2007... she saw the African Water Buffalo in the water. It was so hot all of them were packed into the water to keep warm. You could barely see them. Obviously it wasn't that hot... but they weren't moving much... Next section was the "Australian Animals" section. There's this big "walk" where you walk through where there used to be kangaroos on the ground and koala's in the tree. But for whatever reason it's only koalas now. You have to walk up pretty high and you can see some koala's sitting in the tree... sleeping of course... :-) Next stop was the emu's... they were also quite close to the edge. Sara was only a few feet from one of them (obviously not the one pictured)... Sara loves emu's they're so graceful for such a huge bird... ...and then next to the emu's were the kangaroos... they weren't very active at all either... but now you can see the grey kangaroo (which are the ones I've seen in the wild) and the larger kangaroo, the red kangaroo. Which are native to Dubbo and more of the 'outback'... :-) One of the last stops was the galapagos tortoises... they're HUGE and they have breeding program here too... we got to see 4 different tortoises while we were in this section... you can see two videos here and here... they're both quite short but it shows all four of the tortoises, two of which are in the photos below... Well... obviously we didn't take photos of all the animals... they have like 3x more animals than are currently pictured... but I had fun it was very warm but it was very informative as well... I hope you enjoyed the photos! :-) Write again soon! :-)
Apperveilchen Posted Jan 22, 2009, 6:08 pm	I arrived in Germany. This is my first visit to Europe, si my hopes are high that I'll learn a lot of new things about this world here.
Apperveilchen Posted Jan 25, 2009, 8:32 am	I was greeted here by SaruMaru and Emil. We shared a cold beer-apple mix. Emil says it was brewed in this town. I asked about the origined of beer, as people seem to like it. Some sources as early as the 7th century BC talk write about a brew like beer in Asia Minor, made of barley bread and fruit. The Egyptians, Ancient Greek, Romans, Celts, Chinese, Native Americans... all brewed something like beer. Aristotle even made some scientific research: He found out that beer is a great sleeping draught. He even empirically found that "beer has the peculiarity that it makes those who drink too much of it fall backwards, while excessive consumption of wine causes then to fall to all sides". I noted it all down and will try to observe it in the humans I see consuming either drink.
Apperveilchen Posted Jan 25, 2009, 9:47 am	I learnt a Sunday morning custom today: people go to get rolls at the bakery. Some do it every week but others only on special occasions or when they feel like it because it isn't cheap.
Apperveilchen Posted Feb 4, 2009, 5:25 pm	Today we were packed in a bag and taken on a road trip. It took hours. There were smaller traffic jams and rain and salty water on the roads. It was made better because we were all in the car and had air-conditioning and could listen to a story from a CD. It was about a serial killer who really doesn't understand humans, their behaviour and emotions. I could sympathizie sometimes because I also have trouble with that but it doesn't mean I go around killing people. At least not yet. I might start if this goes on. I have read about something called road rage and I think I might have seen examples of it today. The calmest and most patient person seems to somehow change when sitting behind the wheel of a car and starts screaming and honking and flashing the lights at other drivers for the smallest things or even for no reason at all. I took some notes and will have to compare them to the text books later. For now we have arrived in a more crowded area and took all our stuff into a house. They have cats here, not my primary study but another example that most humans seem to like to band together and form a biocoenosis that includes various animals and growing green stuff. I decided to explore the house. SaruMaru gave me the good idea to have a look at the different alcohols favored in different human communities. I didn't want him 'tasting' it all into oblivion before I had a chance to get a good look so I snuck off to explore the storage areas of the house while he was lazy. We have this carton of wine. Apparently it can be opened and closed for reuse while the actual wineskin does not fill with air to keep the wine drinkable. They can be quite smart, these humans. Then there were various bottled beverages: different beers carbonated and non-carbonated water organic lemonade and lots of wine Hmm,will we get to taste any of this? Let's have a look into the fridge! Lychee wine, white wine, sparkling wine, beer... ...grape jelly with mustard? Maybe I should share my discoveries with SaruMaru. There seems to be enough of everything here.
Apperveilchen Posted Feb 5, 2009, 4:03 pm	My host had some things to take care fo today and we tvs got to ride along in the car. Now we have to pack for the flight tomorrow. I don't know if I'll be able to  update next week but I hope so.
Apperveilchen Posted Feb 16, 2009, 10:45 am	In Atlanta we had to change planes. Here you can see our's being prepared for the journey. We could even see the bag the others were traveling in. I spent a few interesting hours watching people in the terminal and guessing where they were from, where they were going to and why, who would choose where to eat and so on. I noted it all down.
Apperveilchen Posted Feb 17, 2009, 12:39 am	We are starting from Düsseldorf International Airport. I have to stay in the big bag with Saru Maru. It's dark and kind of stuffy in here. My hiost said that would probably not be worse than sitting in the plane because the humans are packed in there like that, too.
Apperveilchen Posted Feb 17, 2009, 12:43 am	This seems to be an example of very practical and cost efficient architecture. I wonder what it means for the individual development of the humans living here. They seem to drive similar cars, do similar jobs, send their kinds to the same day care, visit the same gym at the same time to do the same thing... I could write a paper just about this street and the humans living here. I like it! This is how I would plan for our colonization of the world.
Apperveilchen Posted Feb 20, 2009, 1:27 am	Today, quite a lot of snow fell but it melted immediately upon hitting the ground. SaruMaru and I decided to go outside to enjoy the experience. This is Räuber, a cat that lives here. He likes to claim my host(-family) are his can-openers. He inspected SaruMaru and me and decided we were not edible. I Think my coloring made that clear faster than SaruMaru's.
Apperveilchen Posted Feb 24, 2009, 7:55 pm	This is our new dorm room. It is quite a big one actually and it has its private bath. But the hospital bedsheets have to go!
Apperveilchen Posted Mar 6, 2009, 5:20 pm	Today I took a last look around Merzig and took pictures even though it was raining a little. Here's a street with some typical houses. The backs of such houses are like this, with balconies and gardens, a number of people still grow their own vegetables, herbs and some fruit. If you walk around the town you will probably have to cross little canals such as this: There are a few hidden paths along those. I just like this tree. Here's tiny Fellenberg castle. And the psychiatric hospital, it looks like something out of MTV Fear.
Apperveilchen Posted Mar 8, 2009, 9:23 pm	Max has left here. Watch out for UFOs in your area. Maybe he'll visit you next.
pandabr74 Posted Mar 19, 2009, 10:45 pm	Hello all, I have arrived in Virginia , USA. It is nice here. Minus that , what humans call a mailman, trying to shove me in a mail slot. I didnt fit and left me no moving room til my new host saved me. She said that it wasnt her normal mail person so it isnt the norm. But it is nice here. She has little humans who seemed very happy to see me also. They have been telling me of places to see and things to do all afternoon. My new host has a tv that is getting ready to depart but he was here for my welcoming. His name is JJ. He was there when i came outta my package. He also showed me the safest place to hang out when i am not out spending time or exporing with my hosts. I am not sure of the reason for something called a football. JJ said it is a sport but this one is special it has writing on it. I am still not sure maybe some research later on humans and thier odd obsessions with things called "sports" Well it is late and i didnt sleep much during my trip. So i am going to recharge and will update soon.
pandabr74 Posted Mar 19, 2009, 11:01 pm	Today was go,go,go to say the least. We got up and took one of the little humans somewhere. When they were inside i got to know the other friends in the car. They live in there but they are very happy. This is Pandy he guards the truck. I think he does a good job. [img]null[/img] Then there is Hammy who just hangs around in the cupholder. They are alot of fun and they made the waiting in the car pleasant. When we were done there we had to go pick up a small human from a place called, school. So it was fun to hang out in the backseat with the small human. Well he isnt small he is bigger then my host but she said says he is her son. But he held me so i could look out the window as we were leaving his school. But otherwise it was a buy day my host says, but she has plans for us tomorrow.

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