Travelog for: BineHH

near Pordoi
on the Board!!

Hi friends,

I am BineHH. Maybe you know me like a big red crab. But I was so cute as a big red crab that I got lost two times.

Well I made a cure, lost some weight and I am ready to travel on.



You can see photos of Bine the First and Second in the Travellog - my new life will start at the 27th of March 2011.



Hope to see you soon.

yours BineHH

my travel plan:

tarepanda in the USA 
kessalia in the USA 
gizalba in England
dragonfly in Germany
beelicious
Schnutenfussel
agentsmith
Cheshire
klubwerks
Mandrara
WingedWolf     
Susie's  <- Here I am now!

Today I sat on the pier of Helgoland and waited for the ships to arrive.

Then I saw a group of animals, taking photos and having fun.
I asked them, what they are doing. They told me, that they are toyvoyagers, and what it is.

I decided to be a TV, too. And joined the little group.



If you want to show me your home, lakes, rivers etc, just mail to RikeH.

my travellist :
JaymeC  in Japan. Thanks for the nice time, Jayme !
Bloemmie29 thanks a lot for helping me with one mission! 
fam-united. Had a great time here !
olgamaus. We had a lot if fun!
hanachan. It was wonderful!
hardway. Thanks!
tricia2961. <- I am lost here - and very sad! 
That is me on Helgoland :

In the evening we had a nice party, because I am a ToyVoyager now. 

I want to show you my island, today.

This is called the Oberland - with many cliffs.



The long one is called 'lange Anna'.





Now we are on the 'Duene'. The seals are good friends.



And I love the lighthouse.



We will leave the island - the first time in my life. We will go with these catamaran. You see me in front of it - and then inside. The trip was very funny !

Now I am in Sülfeld, my new home.

We had to say good-bye to Carlisle and PinkyHH.




I hope, that they will find nice hosts all over the world !

Today I saw the first town outside from Helgoland.
It is the town, where Rike went to school.

We found some nice places - with water. 







Behind the fountain is the townhall.

In the afternoon a new TV arrived.

He is called Murph and he really talks a lot,
so we had a nice time in the evening, talking about our adventures.



I am so happy, that I am a ToyVoyager now !

Yesterday Miily left us. First she will go to her Mum, and then to her next adventure.



And today I start my first trip to a new host. Because I am a little shy, I asked Polki, if I can go with him. His next host agreed, so we will go to Japan together. I am so excited.





I will write more from Asia.

Yours
BineHH

Dear Mommy,
I was a bit confused when I came out of my envelope. I thought I'd be at the post office, but instead we were at the airport! I thought my travels were over for a little while! But my new host Jayme quickly explained that we were just there to see her grandfather off as he had been in town visiting.  I was a bit relieved that I'd get to see Okinawa. Here we are with Jayme's son looking down at the inside of the airport.

We went down the stairs then so that Jayme's children could ride on some toys, the train was lots of fun.

They also had lots of stores here in case you'd forgotten any souveniers to take home.

Finally we went outside to see some planes. It was very neat. We got to watch a few take off and Jayme's children had fun running around pretending to be airplanes.

On the way home we stopped by one of the playgrounds. We found another train!

Here is the playground, it was nice to stretch some after being in that envelope for so long.

I'm sorry it took so long to update, we've been helping Jayme a lot as she was sick, but we have another update coming soon and then hopefully we can get out (or stay in!) and do something fun!
BineHH

Dear Mommy,
Its been very, very rainy. And a bit hectic as Jayme's boys keep wanting to play! Today the weather cleared up for a few minutes, so we headed to the pool for awhile! Here I am next to the pool. See that slide in the background? Jayme's 2 year old went down it and came out head first, it was really funny.

Me and the other toys rested for awhile on the towel. Next to us is Jayme's husband being silly.

And here we are by the baby pools. They're small ones for the toddlers, very nice.

Hopefully we'll go do more fun stuff soon! The weather forcast says rainy, but we're all crossing our fingers it will be wrong
BineHH

Dear Mommy,
We've had no end to bad luck here! First it was rainy, rainy, rainy. The sun came out and Jayme thought it was very lucky as she and her husband had a date scheduled that day to go ziplining, but then Jayme hurt her back while she was ziplining and has been trying to lay down and give it rest since.  She's still hurting a bit, but can get up and move around much more easily now.  Then the rain started again. Agh! Would we never escape the house? We did get out to go watch Night at the Museum 2, which was a very funny movie!  Unfortunately pictures don't work well in a movie theatre And then finally we woke up one day... and we could almost see the sun through the clouds! Jayme said it was as close to a sunny day as we were going to get, and the kids needed some exercise so out we went.
We ended up at Kurashiki Dam. Here you can see it from the top.

We went on down to get a closer look. The children liked playing in the water here, its only about knee deep on an adult so they can splash and play and its not very dangerous. They also like climbing up and down the little rock waterfall. Its a very popular place in the summer to cool down. Here we are sitting on some rocks in the water.

After awhile we retreated back to the shore. Usually Jayme says they'd sit here and have a picnic, but unfortunately the clouds came back.

We're all hoping the sun comes out to play for a longer time this weekend so we can do something fun!
More updates soon,
BineHH

Dear Mommy,
Jayme was feeling a bit better so off to the pool we went... when she said pool I figured we were going back to the other one we'd gone to, but this one is apparently at a resort here on Okinawa. The resorts will allow you to come in and use their facilities for a day if you buy a day pass. I wondered how nice it could really be, but then when we arrived I was surprised! Of course our first stop was the locker room.

From there off we went to the outdoor pool. It was lots of fun watching the kids splash and have fun.

Then a surprise... there's another pool?! This one was inside, and had two water slides to boot! It was very shallow at the bottom of the slides, so mostly young kids went down. It was very funny to watch their faces when they hit the water.

We went back to the outside pool and took a small break.

At this point Jayme said the kids were getting hungry and it was sadly time to leave so we started making our way toward the exit. We did get to see the beach on the way, though we didn't stop there. Maybe next time?

We also got to see some neat Shisas near the exit. Shisa's are the guardians of Okinawa and you can find them on most homes and businesses. In fact, even Jayme's apartment has some. This one was very neat since it was playing an eisa drum.

More updates soon,
BineHH

Dear Mommy,
We were so excited! We woke up and finally there was some sun, so off we went to the playground near Jayme's house. All this rain has at least been good for the flowers, aren't they pretty?

We had lots of fun at the playground.


We were so worn out we got home and went to rest for awhile. We were going to go back out that afternoon, but oh no... this is what we woke up to.

Its really getting a bit ridiculous. All this rain! Jayme says she wishes we'd just have a typhoon or two and get the rain over with. We were all just sitting around wondering what to do when all of a sudden we heard some barking. We went to investigate and found this very loud little pup over on the DVD shelf near the X-Files dvds. Hm...

He was very insistent asking what the date was and how long he'd been gone and where the aliens were. Huh?! He said he'd gone to find the aliens at Roswell, NM and been abducted and wound up on some strange planet called eBay, tagless and lost. Then a few minutes ago he'd woken up and found himself here. Silly little pup, must be hallucinating.

Maybe we can have some fun around the house since there's not much to do out of it..
BineHH

Dear Mommy,
This rain just won't let up! Yesh. We decided to have some fun inside the house, since we couldn't really go out. We started calmly enough reading a book

But that wasn't really energetic enough, too much energy! We need to get out soon. So we decided to go for a drive.

After we ran over the 3rd little people we gave up on that though and decided another nice calm activity would be better. So we sat in and decided to try to do a puzzle. Geez these pieces are tiny.

No luck... so we went investigating to find another example of a puzzle and found this finished one waiting to be hung up

Much more interesting than the halfway completed one we tried.  I hope the rain lets up soon...
BineHH