Travelog for: B.o.B.

Hello!

I aaaaaam in Fiiiiiiinnnnnlaaaaaaaannnnnd! Jey! 

In this morning I arrived to mmm105's home. She told me, that I could call her as my hostmom. She told me also, that today's mail arrived much more earlier than usual. I think the reason must be me, because when I was in my envelope, I shouted aloud again and again: "I want to arrive to my destination very quickly!" And I think all postmen was hurrying because of that.

I peeked out of my envelope...



...and I saw many other TVs waiting for me.



They all were so happy that I arrived here. 
They asked me, what creature I am. I introduced myself as B.o.B. and I'm a beaver. Oh, they told me, that they haven't ever seen a beaver! 
Maybe I have to teach them about beavers someday...



I gave to others all sweets that I got from home. 



And then they all gave me a welcome hug. So nice! 

First Sylvia tiger...



...then Mo sheep...



...Porridge hippo...



...Telie frog...



...Ronja bear...



...Tokki bunny...



...Finfin ladybug..



...and PinkLady bunny...



Oooooh, so many hugs! I'm super happy now! 

Then we had a welcome party. We tasted sweets. It was so yummy! 



After that hostmom showed me some maps. I found my homecountry Germany there, and also this country Finland from the maps.

the World


the Europe


Look, there is Finland! I'm in Finland now. 



This town, Jyväskylä, is located in Central-Finland. Just take a look at the part of map where are lots of lakes,  and then you will find Jyväskylä.



I show you the map little closer. Can you find Jyväskylä now? Yes, I'm there right now!



...And one map even more closer. 




Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hey!

I have been hard-working here!

Just take a look, how I have done some beaver's thing outside.

I'm so proud of me now!

Greetings,
B.o.B.

Hello!

I did today something really exiting! Can you guess what I did? It's related to spiders!!! How cool!  I tell you that little bit later...

First, I need to go outside, because we all walked to this "secret-spider-place". But, it was raining, and it wasn't quiet raining. It was raining a lot!

But don't worry, I didn't get wet, I got my umbrella with me. 



And now it's time to tell you, where I was going. I visited to see the Tarantula Birdspider Exhibition (more info: click here ) <--- I'm sorry, it's Finnish
There were many different big spiders, tarantulas, and other bugs and butterflies, too, showed from all over the World.

First, I saw some really beautiful butterflies. Some of them were SO BIG sized.





I saw also some cool and BIG sized spiders!

...And a real living scorpion!



And here are the most beautiful butterflies of the exhibition in closer look:















I'm sorry about the quality of photos, but there were difficult lights for taking photos in that exhibition room.

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hello!

I was watching the really B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L sunset in hostmom's backyard today.

I think the nature in Finland looks very beautiful, indeed!

And I think my hostmom is really lucky to live in this environmental, just next to this small lake.

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hi!

Guess what? Another ToyVoyager arrived here today!

He is Erol the Pirat from Germany.



We all gave him a group hug as a welcome.



He showed a postcard from his hometown, and we ate candies what he has brought from his home. They were so yummy! 



Hostmom's cat came to say hello too! 



Love
B.o.B.
xxx

Hey!

Look! I'm riding a bike! How cool! 

Greetings,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hello!

I was walking outside today.
Hostmom showed me some great places in the city center of Jyväskylä.

But the most important thing first... this heart is for you! 



And here are some photos of this town.





Ronja, Erol the Pirat and Telie were there,too.







This place is tori (a plaza).



This is one building in city center.



This is the street for only pedestrians. There's many shops there.



Hi hii...  I'm eating in the restaurant... NO, I was only kidding!!!
This is a wall art.





This building is quite nice, isn't it?





This is the statue of Minna Canth.



This is one church of Jyväskylä. And this park is called as Kirkkopuisto (a church park).







This building is the city hall of Jyväskylä.



This is Harju. And the big stairs of Harju.



And here are some photos from Harju. Harju is almost like a little forest and a hill just in the middle of the city center! 









I had a wonderful day today.
Now I'm going to sleep, because I'm quite tired about all these new things what I have seen here.

Love,
B.o.B.

Hello!

I had a fantastic and so funny day today!!!

I visited in the amusement park named Suomen Tivoli!!! 

I was there with all other ToyVoyagers. And guess what? We met a new puppy toy (look the second photo).  He wasn't a ToyVoyager, he was with one employer of the amusement park. He came to sit next to us to the bench, and he was in the same photo with us! 

There were so many crazy things in that amusement park. And I was so brave, because I went to The Giant Wheel. It was so exiting, but I really liked the views. Hostmom took good care of me, I was in her lap or in her hands all the time.

Hostmom told me this Suomen Tivoli is the travelling amusement park. It stays some times in one city, and then it travels to the other city, and it travels in different parts of Finland.

I had a really great time today! 

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hey!

Because hostmom feels like she propably going to have a flu, we all stayed inside today, and just relax.

I found today's newspaper Keskisuomalainen, and I read it. But... all is written in Finnish! So weird language!!!
So, I concentrated to watch the pictures, and offcourse the weather forecast.

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hello!

I had a fun day today, as you can see from the pictures.

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hi mom!

Today we said goodbye to Tokki and Porridge, because they started their travelling to the next place, to the next host.



We gave a goodbye group hug to Tokki...



...and to Porridge, too.



I'm going to miss them both!

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hi!

It's raining a lot here today, so we stay inside... and do some silly things!

We all were thinking what to do...



Then we decided to play with the scanner of hostmom, hihii 

Guess what, I scanned myself!!! So funny!     



Hi hiii... I just can't stop laughing! I look so funny!     





We all laughed so much!!! 



It was fun! Oh, silly me! 

   

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hello!

I did today something really exiting thing!

I sent a message in the bottle!!! 

It was so fun! 



Offcourse others came to write, too.



This is the message we wrote together.





It's time to put the message into the bottle.





...And put the bottle closed.



Yes, now it's ready to "send" 



We went outside to the lake. There we released the bottle. 









And there it goes... cool!
Bye bye little bottle, travel safe!







Hostmom put a little note in the bottle, too. She wrote one of her e-mail address there, so it's possible if someone will find the bottle, he can write a message to hostmom's e-mail.

Now we can only wait... 

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hi!

I had a wonderful day! I went to visit exiting place, where I climbed so high, and where could see so awesome landscape views. Can you guess already, where I was?

Yes, I visited in the ski jump place here in Jyväskylä!!! 

Watch very carefully these photos... Can you believe there's still little bit of snow there? 









Hihii!!! This is like a BIG slide! This is soooooo fun!!! 



I wanted to climb up... I wanted to see  this place even more better. And I wanted to see the view up there...

So, I climbed up. It was hard work, but I managed it.
Sooooo long stairs!!!





But as I was thinking, the view... Wow! So beautiful! 











On the way back, I saw some great things.

I saw this mysterious tunnel. What might be in the other side of the tunnel? Hmmmm...



...There's even more forest, offcourse! 



I saw also the small stream. Look, how pretty it is!



And I saw the beautiful butterfly, too.
It was just pity, that the butterfly flew away before I managed to be in the same picture...




Love,
B.o.B.
xxx

Hey!

Today I was cycling with my hostmom and all other ToyVoyagers.
And because Finland is "the country with thousands of lakes" we were cycling around the lake named Jyväsjärvi. There I saw beautiful nature of this town. And guess what... the lake is just next to city center!

Hostmom also told me that there's about 188 000 lakes in Finland. Wow! So many!  Cool! 

Look how nice little basket hostmom put in her bicycle. We all toys travelled in it.



And here we go! Oh, I can already see the lake! Can you?



From there we just came...



And there you can see the lake, a street for cars and a railway, too.



Now we are even more close to the lake Jyväsjärvi.



The city center is so close the lake.



Now we are in the lake Jyväsjärvi. And we are going to cycle all around the hole lake!





The views from the harbour.







Look! The flags of many different countries! 





There is Kuokkala, the one part of the Jyväskylä city.



And this is the bridge of Kuokkala.







Going forward.



The bridge of Kuokkala even one more time.
Hostmom took so many photos... 



And again the bridge of Kuokkala...
C'moon hostmom, please stop taking pictures, and continue cycling. 



Thanks. Now it's the right direction: forward.
(By the way mom, we are in Lutakko, it's the one part of Jyväskylä (as Kuokkala)).



Oh my... even one more photo of the bridge of Kuokkala! 



YES, keep going hostmom...











Ok, I have to admit, that this view is quite nice (there's the bridge of Kuokkala again in the picture, hih).



It's so nice that there's this small street for pedestrians and bikes so close this lake.
Hostmom told me, that this is the popular for people to exercise by walking, running, cycling, rolleyskating etc. around this lake.





There's Lutakko.



And there's Kuokkala.



And there are both: Kuokkala and Lutakko.



Look! Can you see that small castle just in front?



The castle is part of the park named Peukkula. It's a place where children can play all the day, and meet some fairy tale creatures!!! 





Now we are in the bridge named Äijälänsilta. Look, there's two men canoeing there! Can you see them?





This is Äijälänsilta.



And now our little journey continues.



There's city center... So so far!!!



Isn't this view nice? There's many birches, very typical tree in Finland.



Hih hih... Guess what is this bridge's name... YES, it's the bridge of Kuokkala, only from the other side of the lake now. 





There's the harbour and the city center and Lutakko.





Look, there's two wild ducks swimming (yes, those two small black spots in the lake)





And the journey continues. Look how green there is.



On the left side, there's trees.



And on the right side, there's the lake.





This bridge called as Mattilanniemen silta (a bridge of Mattilanniemi).



And we keep going...







...and keep going...



A cute small bridge.



Now we have cycled around the hole lake!





When we were back inside, we looked from the map, where we were cycled exactly. Look the red line around the lake, that is the way we were cycled today. Hostmom told me, we cycled about 15 kilometres. Wow! 



It was nice!

Love,
B.o.B.
xxx