Travelog for: Ronja

Hello mom!

It's time to say goodbye to ToyVoyager Sylvia. She is leaving here.
I'm going to miss her, because she is so nice little tiger.

We all said goodbye to her.



And we gave her a group hug as goodbye.



Then we watched when Sylvia went into her envelope. Bye Sylvia!





Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hi mom!

Sylvia left here earlier today, BUT we got more company today, too.

ToyVoyager Mi Nam arrived here. She is like a bunny and a pig, too. Both of them! How cool! 

It's so nice to have more friends!

Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hey mommy!

I have been so good time with my ToyVoyager friends here, that I haven't got a time to write updates daily...

Hostmom has got busy days at work lately, and she has been quite tired after the work day, so we toys have been doing something ourselves. One of the most nicest thing we have done, is playing different boardgames. It has been fun!

We have been played for example the Monopoly, Muuttuva labyrintti (the changing labyrinth) and different kinds of plays with playing cards.

Hostmom promised, that I can go outside soon, because the weather forecast has told there will be so nice weather here in the next following days.

Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hello mom!

I was outside today with other ToyVoyagers.

We went walking to the hostmom's backyard. There's already a summer here, and there's so green in everywhere!



I wanted to see more, so I climbed to the tree, a birch (koivu in Finnish).





There's the house of hostmom's home.



We went to see the flowers more closer.







I think these flowers are so beautiful. ...all of them!!!













Look, how beautiful view there is!





Here are we all just taking a little brake off walking.





Then we walked to see the lake. And we all were sitting and watched the lake and landscape there.



It's so finnish things: a lake and a tree. 









I found these yellow flowers just next to water. 



Now I am going back inside.



When we went back inside, we noticed that there has come a new ToyVoyager, Wayne gingerbreadman, to visit hostmom. How nice!



We all became friends!



Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hey mommy!

I found a flower sea! 

There's so much of flowers there! 

It's like a flower sea, or a flower jungle! Cool! 

Everything is fine here. Hostmom said she has a special plans for the day after tomorrow, and I'm so exited about it...

Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hello mommy!


A new ToyVoyager Kit-Kat arrived here today!
She is so cute and friendly kitty.
We all said her welcome.
I'm sure we will be friends!






She showed us the postcard, candies and a teabag, what she got from Lithuania with her.



Hostmom's cat came to say "Hello!" too.



I'm so exited about today's plan, because hostmom told me that today evening we all are going to do something really nice thing... Hih, but I don't tell you that yet, because it's more funny to keep it in secret. Don't worry mom, I will tell you that later!



Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hello mommy!

I had a w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l day! 

Guess what I did... I was in a TOYVOYAGER MEETING!!!
Just great!!! I met sooooooo many new ToyVoyagers, and we had so much fun!


Here are we all toys together in Kirkkopuisto (a church park).
Our hosts and moms mmm105 and Reissari from Finland, and RikeH from Germany has organized this meeting, thanks for them!





Then mmm105 and Reissari said they have a secret, and we all must trust them. They talked each other something about benji jumping...      No no no, I won't do that!!! It's too crazy thing to do!!!

But it wasn't a benji jumping place where we went. I was so relief about that. mmm105 and Reissari were just kidding! 
We went to see more Finnish people in a great postcard shop, where was a postcrossing meeting there. That was nice!



After that we went to the restaurant and I ate pizza, yummy. 



Then it was time to go "home", to mmm105's place.
There we said welcome to a new TV TobiHH, who came to visit mmm105.



After a long and exiting day, I was quite tired, so I went to sleep...

ZZZzzzzZZZ zzzzz ZZZZZZ  zzzzz  ZzZzZzZ zzZZZZz ZZZ zzzz




Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hey mommy!


Today hostmom took me with her to visit a great place.
We went to näkötorni (the viewing tower) to see good views about Jyväskylä city.
And the views were definitely so great! I saw the hole city from there! 

The viewing tower is located in the place called Harju (it's like a hill just next to city center).



There's the city center, and the harbour of Jyväskylä:



There's the sport stadium of Harju:



And if you look very carefully on the horizon of the following picture, you can see the ski jumping place there:



There's the house where hostmom is living! Yes, the building inside the red circle.



There's Natural History Museum in the same building as the viewing tower is.
So, I visited there, too.

The Natural History Museum's website (click) tells that "The Natural History Section serves as a preservation unit for natural scientific research, and displays environmental subjects and research material. It takes care of the living plants of the botanical garden on the campus. It also receives wild animals found dead and prepares scientific samples of them. The section has a collection of over 250 000 samples, the most numerous being invertebrates, plants and moss."

I saw many Finnish animals there.

I saw hirvi (a moose). It is the biggest animal living in Finland.



And there's two swans. A swan ( joutsen ) is the national animal of Finland.



Just next to Harju, we all stopped to watch a fountain.





And by walking in the city center I saw this little detail on the wall of one building.
Looks cool! 




Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hi mom!

Look how nice rainbow (sateenkaari in Finnish) I saw today! 

Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hi mommy!


Today is a sad and a happy day.

It's sad, because Mi Nam and Finfin has left from here to travel to their new hosts.

But it's happy, because a new toy BarryO arrived here.

First we all said goodbye to Mi Nam and Finfin.



They went to their envelopes.



Bye bye, travel safe!!!



Then we met a new toy, a teddy bear named BarryO. He is originally from USA.



Then we had a little party!!! 
We ate some German sweets, what Sabbel&Jenton has sent to hostmom.



Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hi mom!


Today we spend a girly quality time, because we all girls; hostmom, me, PinkLady and Kit-Kat were shopping!!! 

All boys stayed 'home', hihiii...

This shopping was our special time together. 

We went to city center of this town, and we visited in many shops.
We saw also some men from foreign country, who were there playing a music.
We also met an ice cream teddy named Ingman (so funny name)!!!

Hih, and we bought many things, mostly some summer clothes to our hostmom...

Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hi mommy!


Last night I was outside walking. I went to see the lake, and I wished to see a beautiful sunset. And I really did see it!!!

There's so typical Finnish things: trees and a lake.



I saw there some very pretty flowers.



It was a beautiful night. I saw a beautiful sunset, and all those clouds in the sky made it even more pretty and special, I think.









It was absolutely very relaxing to watch this beautiful view!




Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hello mom!


It was such a lovely day today, we all decided to go to a picnic.

But first have to make some food to take away.

Some carrots...





...and some grapes, too.



Then we all packed the food.







Then it's time to go.





This place seems to be a good place to have a little picnic.



No no no, we changes the place.
This second place is much more better, because we are now just next to lake. 





It was so nice just to relax there with good company! 





We spent many hours there. We all just had so much fun!

But then, we decided to go back inside.








Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hi mommy!


I cooked today! 

I did some "stuffed tomatoes", and it was yummy.

First thing to do is wait untill a frying pan is hot enough...



Then it's time to put the meat to the frying pan, and make them brown.



Then I made some grated cheese.



I prepared tomatoes. I covered them with a spoon, and I made tomatoes empty. And those covered tomatoes I put into the bowl.



Then it's time to make tomatoes full again.
I put meat and grated cheese into tomatoes.
Offcourse I used also some spicyes, like oregano...



Tomatoes are almost ready. They just need to put into owen, and when the cheese has got some nice colour, they are ready. 



Yummy, it's ready!!!  (in the picture you can see the stuffed tomato, but also some other vegetables next to it)



It was good!

Love,
Ronja
xxx

Hello!


Today I watched television. There was very popular program, Moomins.

Moomin charachters and stories are popular in Finland, but also almost all over the World. The writer of Moomin stories is Tove Jansson (1914-2001).

Hostmom told me, that there's many many Moomin things here in Finland. First of all, there's the Moominworld in Naantali, the Moomin museum in Tampere, and there's also lots of Moomin products selling in Finland.

Lots of Moomin info you can find through this link.

Love,
Ronja
xxx