Lightning Jones, Home, USA

ekolter


Posted May 29, 2010, 3:51 am
Slowly getting up a list of people who wish to host Jones.  I'm willing to take up to 15 hosts.

From ToyVoyagers:
1) MorgenSter in Brazil (Visted)
2) Mar Adento in Russia (No reply, skipped to 3rd person)
7) Sammy in Germany
8) McFloozy in Boston, Massachusetts
9) Katieroo in Raleigh, North Carolina
10) Milenosss in Poland
11) Ford in Australia
12) vonxblood in Washington State, USA
13) bmmapel in Georgia, USA

From Postcrossing:
3) Koekje87 in Netherlands (Currently visiting)
4) Piparminttu in Finland (no reply)
5) KaeEhm in Canada
6) Usag1 in San Francisco, California, USA
ekolter


Posted May 31, 2010, 4:49 am
Jones visited the Missouri Botanical Gardens and saw the DinoQuest exhibit with myself & the little guy. I've included a few pictures from there below.

Then this weekend, Jones will be hanging around home and doing the stay at home vacation thing with us for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.

ekolter


Posted Jun 2, 2010, 2:09 pm
Hello friends :)

I finally got to hit the pool yesterday! One of my parents friends' apartment complex just opened up. She invited Mom & the little guy to come and go swimming. We had to stop by Wal-mart to pick up some swim stuff for the little guy and grab some lunch first. Once at the pool, we played for 2 whole hours! The little guy loved it! Everyone was giggling at him. He worn himself out and we all then headed to a local bookstore to relax while he slept in his stroller for a bit. Didn't get home until well after dark. By that time everyone was too tired to upload pictures. They'll be coming soon.
ekolter


Posted Jun 4, 2010, 3:35 am
Mom, Dad, and the Little Guy have had out-of-town friends and their children visiting since Friday evening and have been doing the local tourist things. On Saturday everyone went to the Saint Louis Zoo. Today we went to the Saint Louis Gateway Arch and saw the Mississippi River. Then tomorrow we'll have a little backyard barbecue with hamburgers before our friends have to drive back home.

Here are some pictures of Lightning Jones' journey to the the top of the Saint Louis Arch over Memorial Day weekend. Thanks to 'Aunt Brooke' and the boys for taking me along with them to the top! :D

Mom also add some pictures of me in the museum under the Arch. Also forgot to mention, but I got made a junior ranger by lady park ranger! Whoohoo! I have my own badge and a coloring book!

ekolter


Posted Jun 17, 2010, 5:17 am
Jones' adventures began today on the official first day of summer. He's on his way to Brazil! He should be arriving there in the next 5-10 days according to the nice lady at the post office.

Have fun Jones! May you have many wonderful adventures! We'll miss you here at home!  B)
ekolter


Posted Jun 22, 2010, 1:12 am
Jones tagged along to the International Horseradish Festival in Collinsville, Illinois, with his brother, Eight. Eight is a huge foodie and just had to go to his event. Jones thought it was just 'meh'.

Later as we were heading back home, we decided to stop by and check out Cahokia Mounds. It's a UNESCO site. Jones got a picture of Mound's Mound and toured the museum for the last hour. We didn't see the other attractions at the site, it was way too hot and muggy to be walking around outside for too long.


ekolter


Posted Jul 19, 2010, 1:31 am
I just got word a few days ago that Jones has arrived safe and sound in Brazil! :D 

Can't wait to see what adventures he has there!
MorgenSter


Posted Jul 20, 2010, 9:12 pm
Hello!!!
I'm in Brazil with a few pictures for everyone to see.The weather is finally getting better, sunny and warm. We had a lot of days of rain and cold. We walked around the old center of the town, the second oldest of Brazil, founded in 1545. Here are some nice pictures:D

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Comming back soon with more!
MorgenSter


Posted Aug 3, 2010, 8:30 pm
Here are a few pictures more! There are two new toy vouyagers here with us , Bally and Eeyore Cutie. It has been really fun walking around town with them. Our host started working yesterday and it has also been raining a lot, so we didn't get to do much last week.


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ekolter


Posted Aug 15, 2010, 3:17 am
Dearest Jones,

I wanted to let you know that we have moved since you have been traveling. We have a nice little rental house instead of an apartment.

Hope you're having a blast! We miss you!


xoxox,
Mom, Dad, and TC
MorgenSter


Posted Aug 18, 2010, 3:03 am
Hello!!! Here I am updating my travelog again! Santos is very big and we have been all over town with our host. The historical centre, barbecues, aquarium, tennis club, restaurants, etc.
And I met another turtle!!!Another of my wishes is now complete! But I must upload a picture soon, I don't have any so far ( so I'll tick the wish box next time)

I also can't wait to see my new house with my mommy and daddy !!! is it comfy???

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ekolter


Posted Sep 29, 2010, 5:18 pm
Jones is ready to move on to another adventure. Hoping to get the contact information of the 2nd person on the travel list soon. If not, he will go to the 3rd person on the list.  B)

EllenNL


Posted Oct 23, 2010, 7:37 pm
Jones has arrived in the Netherlands !! He had a good trip, but is very tired now......
EllenNL


Posted Oct 23, 2010, 7:47 pm
Jones was alone for just a day. Today he became friends with a other traveltoy called Wubai. They like eachother a lot!

Jones:
I love it here in the Netherlands! Though the weather is rainy.... I met a nice guy, his name is Wubai. We went to the shoppingcentre today and bought a nice shirt for Ellen. We also joined a icecream, sharing it together! On this photo you can see me with my new friend Wubai.





EllenNL


Posted Oct 23, 2010, 7:52 pm
Today I went to a museum with Ellen and a friend of her. We went to a museum about Africa. It was a little scared about all the kids around there! But Ellen stayed very close to me. Unfortunatly we couldn't make any pictures in the museum :(  So that's we Ellen made a photo of me while typing this update. We enjoyed the museum a lot!

With Love, Jones

EllenNL


Posted Oct 25, 2010, 7:55 pm
Today we went to the shoppingcentre. Ellen wanted to buy a goldfish, so we needed a lot !  A fish bowl... fish food... small stones... twigs....

In the afternoon we had collected everything and we went to the Pet Shop for the goldfish. Ellen said I could pick one and she did too. I picked a black fishie.... so cute!

So at the end we bought two fishies. My fishie is called 'Wimpie'  and the orange one wich Ellen picked called 'Kareltje'.

I'll show you a photo ! :)
EllenNL


Posted Nov 14, 2010, 11:26 am
Ellen had to work at Holiday On Ice. That's a huge Ice-Skating-show, very famous around the world. They are bussy with a tour through the Netherlands and Ellen is working at some city's. This time it's Den Bosch. And lucky me...... I was with her! It was forbidden to make photo's inside cause of the copyright on the show.... but we made a photo with a truck-trailer !!  :D

EllenNL


Posted Nov 14, 2010, 11:33 am
Wubai, Ellen and me went to a meeting from Postcrossing today !!! It was in the north of the Netherlands (Leeuwarden), so we had to travel a long time. There where 14 other postcrossers and it was really fun. We went to a few card-shops and saw ' Sinterklaas' !!! Sinterklaas is a traditional, we celebrate it on 5th december. The story is that Sinterklaas shares his stuff with poor people (children) and get some help from 'Zwarte Pieten' to get all the stuff at the right persons.  And today was the day that he arrived in the Netherlands :)

Well, as you can see on the photo: we signed a lot of cards during the meeting !

EllenNL


Posted Nov 14, 2010, 1:59 pm
Today we are sooooooo lazy ! We slept a long time, still tired from yesterday! So we decided to eat jummie sandwiches and write a card to home... I think they'll miss me. Ellen is helping me with the writing, she learns me some dutch words :) 

This evening we are going to eat with my roommate, fun!

EllenNL


Posted Nov 21, 2010, 11:44 am
This weekend we visited Ellen her parents. It was only a short visit, cause the internet broke down :(  And Ellen needed that for some study-stuff.... So we travelled about 4 hours on friday and did go back on saturday (another 4 hours by train!)

Here are some pictures we made:
Me with mother
Me with father
Me with Pino! (he was very curious to me)
Me sitting by a flower :D
ekolter


Posted Nov 30, 2010, 2:46 am
Editing Host list currently due a few changes - inactive for months, no replies, opt out, etc.

From ToyVoyagers:
1) MorgenSter in Brazil (Visted)

3) Sammy in Germany
4) McFloozy in Boston, Massachusetts
5) Milenosss in Poland
6) Ford in Australia
7) vonxblood in Washington State, USA
8) bmmapel in Georgia, USA
9) GabbyGecko in Colorado, USA
10) lucymonty in the UK

From Postcrossing:
2) EllenNL in Netherlands (Currently visiting)
ekolter


Posted Oct 31, 2011, 3:44 am
Jones has been lost.

I haven't had contact with his host(s) in ages.

Farewell, little friend, may the world treat you kind wherever you may be.


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