Travelog for: Monkez

Hello !

Today we were allowed to join BlackCat while she was working in the youth centre. There was a teenager disco (for kids from 13-17) today and we were really excited.

BlackCat decided that we will be a good decoration and made us ready for our "work". It was a lot of fun and we laughed a lot.









I really hope we can go to another teenager disco together again.

Love,
Monkez

Hello,

today we visited the zoo of Bochum, which isn’t a big one. There are no really special animals, only 2 sharks. But we weren’t able to make photos there, as the light was so bad. But we made some other photos with the animals outside and with a fountain where you can drink water from (like in America, BlackCat said). Looks nice and we all tried and had fun. Hope you’ll enjoy the photos as well.

I am sorry for not so much photos, but most of the animals were behind glass windows, which made it impossible to make good photos...sorry.















It was a nice day !

Love,
Monkez

Hello,

today we made a walk through the fields of Essen-Kupferdreh. It was a really long walk, but we really enjoyed it. Hopefully we will make more walks like this in the next weeks.
















Here you can see lake Baldeney in the middle of the photo (between the trees). And the black points in front of that are cows !

It was a nice walk !

Love,
Monkez

Hey,

today we had a short walk in the fields in Essen. It was a really nice day and we had a lot of nice views. Will show them to you now.













Greetings,
Monkez

Hey !

This walk gets an own entry. We walked through the forest when we found an old house. It was a lost place. Just a ruin in the middle of the forest. It was so wonderful. BlackCat found out that it is a part of a coal mine which was active until 1968. We were all excited, walked around and made a lot photos. Hope you'll like them.



























What a wonderful place. It was really nice there.

Love,
Monkez

Hello

I am on my way home now. Will hopefully have a short travel.

Looking forward to see you again, mum.

Love,
Monkez

Hello mom!

I am in Germany again!

Today I arrived in Mechterstädt. Wow, that was a long journey but luckily I could come out of the dark box today.



I was welcomed by 2 other TVs living here at the moment: Aurelius von Hippo and Harold Giraffe. As you can see am fine and looking forward to more adventures.

After a long day we relaxed in the sauna.

We had a lovely warm and sunny Sunday and decided to go for a walk in the countryside.







Let's see where to go.



Are we in the USA?! That's what I thought when we came along this Ranch 'Dark Mountain'. Dark in German means Finster and Mountain is Berg, so it is a play of words. Dark Mountain = Finsterbergen.



Let's take a rest.

Today I met the 2 house cats: Bonnie and Clyde

We went to Erfurt, the state capital of Thuringia. Harold Giraffe joined us.
Here we are on the motorway, passing castles.







Erfurt is a beautiful town with old buildings.
We went along the 'Kramerbruecke'.
The buildings were built over water on this bridge and are mainly shops. 'Kraemer' means chandler.









We took a stroll along the river Gera.



Look , who  we saw: Kapitän Blaubär and Hain Blöd!
They are 2 characters from a kid's television show.



This is the townhall and market place with old buildings.







And last but not least we went to the cathedral square.
Here they already prepare the Xmas Market, hence the sign 'Erfurter Weihnachtsmarkt'.
Maybe we will visit it in December.



It was a beautiful sunny day!
Byebye.

We visited castle Friedrichswerth today and took a stroll around the castle.



Unfortunately it is forbidden to enter the building, so we could only see it from the outside.





It was a nice evening outside, thought it is cold here with -4°C.

Today we welcomed a new TV here in the house.

Let's see what is in the package....





It is Taru from Germany!



Welcome in our group!

My host was busy this week with her job. She is a teacher and today she took us with her to school.

The school and the building is already over 200 years old. It was refurbished about 5 years ago.



In the school park there are busts of the founder and a famous teacher.






And then we went to my host's classroom and waited for the pupils to come.





I waited at the window and had a nice view at the school ground and the pond.



On the teacher's desk I met these two guys: Ella and Don. They are two mascotts from the US. I told them about my journey and they thought it was a cool idea for them to do this one day, too.

Time to bake Christmas cookies!

We, Monkez, Taru and Harold helped our host to bake cookies.
There were tons of ingredients on the table,which we might need.



But first we had to read the recipes.



We decided to make different kinds of bakery product and
started with the Quarkstollen.

Eggs, flower, raisins, curd cheese, sugar....





Then we mixed the dough.



And into the oven.





While the Stollen was baking, we prepared the dough for the other cookies.

Next we made snowballs with coconut. You have to beat the eggwhites and add sugar.







And some of the other doughs had to go into the freezer for some time....



before we cut the cookies.



On top we put cut dates.



We took out the Stollen after about 30 minutes. Mh, what a great smell.



And the date cockies go into the oven.



The final result:



There were also chocolate cookies ....



and forgotten cookies. They are called like that because you put
them into the oven turn it off and leave them inside overnight.



Puh, what a lot of work. But after 4 hours it's done!