Travelog for: Fenway

We had a great trip to California, but I am happy to be home! Last night I helped to celebrate the last night of Chanukah by lighting the menorah. We lit two - one for Mara & her husband, and one for me and Plaid Moose! Happy Chanukah!!

Hello! It has been REALLY cold here in Virginia, but I have been keeping warm and keeping busy. The weathermen say that this is the coldest January we have had in decades - but still no snow! The biggest news was the Inauguration last week of President Obama! Even though we live close to Washington DC (about 16 miles away!) we decided it was too cold and too crowded - 2 million people were there! So we watched on tv - here I am watching President Obama being sworn in!

And here I am with Plaid Moose with the paper the next day!

Other than the Inauguration, the other big news here is that Mara and her husband are getting new kitchen cabinets. Plaid Moose and I helped to pick out the new cabinets - they went with our choice!

I have also been doing some shopping (since it's too cold to play outside!). We like to go to Border's - a big bookstore with a cafe. It's a nice place to sit and have coffee and read a book!

Speaking of coffee, I have been to Dunkin' Donuts as well!

And today we went out to lunch - YUM!

I had such a fun day today! It snowed here in Virginia - the first snow of the year! So Plaid Moose and I went outside to help Mara shovel and to play in the snow! Here I am in front - we did a pretty good job shoveling the walkway...sort of!

And here we are in the snow on the steps! It was cold but fun!

And here we are in the snow covered tree! Can you find us?

Hello! Mara feels bad that we haven't been updating my travel log recently, but we are having a good time! A couple of weeks ago Fridolin arrived. He is a very sweet cat, and we are having fun playing together. We all went together to a basketball game! Mara lives near George Mason University, and we went to go see a basketball game there. I told everyone about how George Mason was in the Final Four (the NCAA basketball tournament) a couple of years ago - a HUGE deal for such a small school!

The weather here has been strange - we have some warm days then some really cold days. But when we woke up today there was SNOW! Here I am in front of the house, looking at all of it!

There was a LOT more than the last time it snowed - finally a real storm! After looking at it, I decided I wanted to play in it. So all of us jumped in on Mara's car!

It was a lot fluffier than I thought it would be! But we had a great time!

We've been super busy lately, but we managed to take a few pictures last weekend. It was rainy, but that didn't stop us from running errands...

On this trip we went to a grocery store!

All of the rain makes the trees bloom - even in the rain they look beautiful!

Hello! Plaid Moose and I have been having a ton of fun with Fridolin, even if Mara has forgotten to help us post the pictures (she feels horrible about it!). A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Passover. I was glad to be home - I was traveling last year - and excited to share the Passover seder with my new friend! First, I helped to set out the seder plate...

And we put a haggadah (the prayer book) at each person's place

Then we covered the matzah up until later in the seder

During the seder we helped to say the blessings over the candles

And at the end of the seder I enjoyed some matzah!

Spring has definitely come to Northern Virginia, and everything is in bloom! Mara says I'm lucky that I don't have allergies - everyone is all sniffly! Here I am in front of one of the beautiful trees in our neighborhood...

I played in the grass with my friends...

...and even climbed one of the pretty trees! (can you find me? I'm in the middle of the tree!)

Hello! I just got back from an amazing vacation! Mara & her husband went to Mexico, and us Toy Voyagers hopped in her bag and came along!!
We started out in the airport here in Virginia (Washington Dulles) - we liked looking at all the flags while we were waiting for our flight.

Next, we had a quick stopover in Charlotte, North Carolina. I liked the old plane that was in our terminal!

It's hard to tell from this picture, but here I am on the airplane over the Gulf of Mexico!

Once we arrived, we marveled at the view from our balcony! What a great place to spend a vacation!!

We spent most of the vacation relaxing. The resort was so beautiful that we never left!! Look at all of the coconut trees!

I really liked sitting on a lounge chair and watching the waves with my friends.

The beach was so beautiful...here I am by my chair looking out over the Caribbean Ocean...

And here I am on the sand!

And, of course, we went to the beautiful pool too!

What an amazing trip!

I am SUCH an excited little dog! I have been a Red Sox fan my whole life, and this week I finally got to see them play in person! The Red Sox played a 3 game series against the Washington Nationals, and Mara let me come with her to all three games! I didn't get to meet any players, but I got to see them up close!! Here I am in the stadium before the first game...

It's a new stadium (not like my namesake, Fenway Park, which opened in 1912!), and it's very pretty. Plaid Moose liked the baseball cap recycling bins!

The scoreboard is really huge...

And it helped me to help Mara keep score!

I had such a good time at all three games!!

Baseball hasn't been the only fun thing around here lately. Friday and Saturday I went with Mara to the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Chantilly. It was a lot of fun, and I really liked helping to make a scrapbook layout!

But even more exciting was today. A package arrived, and Mara let me and Plaid Moose open it.

Inside was Pooky!

He will be visiting for a few weeks! We are so excited to show him around!

Not even a week after I got to see the Boston Red Sox play in Washington DC, I got to see them play again! This time we drove up to Baltimore to see them play the Baltimore Orioles! We had a lot of fun playing games in the car. Here we are on the Beltway...can you see the "Welcome to Maryland" sign in the background?


I did a better job of keeping score this time...

The game was SO good! The Red Sox came back from being down 5-1 in the ninth inning to win the game! We were all cheering SO loudly!

I am off on a new adventure! I leave today for...China! It's on the other side of the world, so this flight might be a long one! I gave a hug goodbye to Plaid Moose and Pooky Bear...

...and hopped into my travel case! China, here I come!

Hi from China!
It was a big summer day when I finally arrived at Beijing. After some kind of long journey, I felt a little dizzy. So I came out of the mail bag up side down...







Wooo...!! It is..... China!





Two TVs were welcoming me in a nice way, and they were both rabbit.  




The white little one shaked hands with me and told me they had been going through a pretty great time here in Beijing. They were SunnyHH and Bonishka. It was SunnyHH who had two sun logo on his body. So kind of them!




Then, Whatif showed me around her room!




I thought his eyes were just like mine!




My host mom's little puppy Beibei. He looked vigourous and he was a real dog!

Oh! It was him! just behind me...    
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Hello body!~~ 


Whatif had tured on the air condition for me to make me feel more comfortable and feel like home. 

I felt great so don't miss me so much, I will update this week later, as soon as possible! 

Hi mum! Today our first station was the Capital Museum!












But we were disappointed to know that we just  missed the oportunity to see the exhibition of World EXPO 2009 which ended last week. Well~~Maybe it would be better for me to come back next year!