Travelog for: Tatanka

Coooooooooooooooool!
Now I will soon be ready for takeoff! Just in this moment my ID arrived!
Maybe I will dream of my exciting adventures I will experience in the future.

Hope I can sleep!

Yours, Tatanka

Woooooooooooooooooow, I got my first invitation!
Go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeest *sing*

I try to sleep... a little bit ;o)

Yesterday my mentor bought a comfortable envelope for my journey. I hope it will keep me warm on my way to the west

I put on my nicest feathers to look like an indian 

Now we are waiting everyday for the postman, who brings my passport, but it wasn´t in the postbox yet.

I am pawing with my hooves to start my travel!

Finally my passport arrived!

Today we have a big goodbye party with all plushys. My old friend Erol the Pirat will leave Lichtenfels tomorrow, too. He will travel with LittleLuzi to the south, I will travel to the west.
I am very excited, what I will experience in the world.
My mission is to go west an d I start my journey in North- Rhine Westphalia. 

Byebye, Lichtenfels, Byebye, dear Yosi!

I will write as soon as I arrive!

Love you,

Tatanka

Here you see me and my friends giving me a hug
Trudi Baerle Fussel Baerbel and her son Joschka and the big mouse Knabber

So, world, I am coming!

Go weeeeeeeeeeest *sing*

Tatanka

Hi Mummy,

I arrived in Remscheid today. The postman brought me to my host Katja's workplace, so I will not have to wait on the stairs the whole day until Katja's finishing time at 6.00 p.m.

I was welcomed by Katja and four ToyVoyagers, Aslan, Clyde, Franz-Ferdinand and Krystal.



I took a quick look outside - just to close the window immediately. It is extremely stormy and rainy.



Instead I helped Katja to  do her work.



Later we had another coffee and enjoyed the chocolate I brought with me.



Bye for now
Tatanka

Hi Mummy,
when we came home there was an envelope from Great Britain waiting for us. Katja thought it might be another guest, but it was a present from LittleBlogFrog She sent a lovely photo and a cute Santa.



Bye
Tatanka

Hi Mummy,
we were busy in the kitchen today. The weather is really ugly, so nobody wanted to go outside. We made delicious cookies today, they are called "Hausfreunde"in German, whichs means "paramours". Who knows why they are called like this ....

We prepared the ingredients: Eggs, sugar, flour and baking soda, raisins, nuts, chocolate - that's all.



Nuts and chocolate had to be chopped ...





... eggs were mixed with sugar until the mass was quite stiff ...



... than nuts, raisins and chocolate had to be kneaded into the mass. We formed three bread-shaped things.





They were coated with egg yolk.



Than they had to be baked and cut into slices antil they were still hot.



Yummy!

Bye
Tatanka

Hi Mummy,
the weather was still ugly today, although we tried to walk around in Katja's lunch break. First she showed us the water tower which is visible even from a larger distance, because the city centre of Remscheid is situated on a hill.





The public library is situated in the brown building on the left side, an art gallery in the house on the right side.



Here you can see the central bus station - and the first raindrops.



It was raining more and we hurried back to "our" work place along the shopping street.



Bye for now
Tatanka

Hi Mummy,
today my host wanted to make some more Christmas cookies or something like that. I decided to tell her a secret family receipe, the one with tons of chocolate, butter, nuts and marshmallows. What a fortunate coincidence - all ingredients were on hand. Snakey helped me.



We melted butter and couverture and added chopped nuts. In the meantime we cut the marshmallow into small pieces.



The chocolate mass had to cool down, we put it close to the open window to cool it down faster.



We added the marshmallows and filled the whole mass into a cake setting frame.



We decorated the chocolate mass with white couverture and brought the it to the really cold attic. Hopefully tomorrow everything is set and we will be able to cut in into pieces.



I can't wait to taste it!

Bye
Tatanka

Good morning Mummy,
it's the fourth Advent Sunday!



We tasted the wonderful chocolate stuff we made yesterday. It is simply wonderful!



It snowed a bit during the night.



Have a pleasant Sunday
Tatanka

Hi Mummy,
we went to buy the Christmas tree today. We went with Katja's brother-in-law, like every year, she told me.

We drove to a farm in one of the rural outskirts of Remscheid. Here you can drive into the forest and look vor your tree in a tree farm. You can even fell it on your own.





Those trees are not large, about 1,50 m .







You can go with your own car here or you can go with the farmer, on the trailer of his tractor.



We took a short walk around.



To pay for the tree we had to drive back to the farm. In the meantime the sun came out, but only for a short moment.



I also went to say Hello to the horses on the farm.



It was time than to disappear into Katja's bag. I was a bit wet and afraid to get a cold.

Bye
Tatanka

Hi Mummy,
today we helped to decorate the Christmas tree.



Katja got this cute Santa from the host of one of her TVs in England.



Bye
Tatanka

Hi Mummy,
today is Christmas Eve! First we had a fantastic dinner with fish, homemade hash brown and savoy cabbage with porcini. Yummy!

Afterwards we helped to open the Christmas presents. I even got an own present!





Yummy chocolate!



Bye for now
Tatanka