Travelog for: Grape Ape

Here we are, all three "monkeys" sitting in a row. It has been really hot here lately. We were wondering where we would visit next...

We were all very excited about the special invitation we had received! Threadbear and Eloise were getting married and we had all been invited to the wedding as honoured guests! What we didn't realise was how many guests there would be!!

Eloise looked beautiful.... and Threadbear looked so smart too.



All the bears waiting to go to the Teddy Bear clinic were there too! We all watched as Eloise came down the isle. You could hear some 'aaahs' coming from the gathered guests.





We listened to them say their "I do's" and then Threadbear kissed his bride.



They walked back up the isle as man and wife.



The bride and groom cut the cake and it was time to PARTY!!



We eventually waved them goodbye...



MrsC's house was a mess but the party continued into the early hours...

Today we said farewell to Purple Bun and Sputnik. I knew the time was coming for me to leave too.





I have had a lovely time here in South Africa and will miss all the friends I have made, but Vicki said I could stay the weekend and enjoy one more outing with them before I left.

We woke up all excited because we were visiting a place called Goblin's Cove. It was quite a drive out to Magaliesburg, this is a mountain range to the north west of Johannesburg. We finally arrived at this most enchanting place.





The restaurant was full of little nooks and crannies with little fairies, goblins and elves everywhere.



The gardens were also very pretty with all the Spring flowers in full bloom!







Vicki had never been to Goblin'sCove before and thought it was such a great place to drive out and have a light lunch at, away for the city bustle.



Holiday Harry and I decided to try out this old cage for size... I wasn't going to hang around too long though, in case a mischievous gnome got some funny ideas...



The whole place was full of mythical creatures and we had a great time playing 'hide-and-go-seek' with them.



Another lovely day out in the country...

Well the time has come to say goodbye! I have been here since 7 June and we have had a wonderful visit together but the time has come to move on to my next adventure. Farewell friends....

After a long but silent flight I safely arrived in Vienna/Austria today. I had a warm welcome from my host family and the other toyvoyagers living here (there were Smokehouse, Curly and Robinson who welcomed me and Froggie who just arrived today, too).

My host told me that we would have a rest after the exhausting journey for a few days but we will start sightseeing on the weekend - how exciting, isn't it?

Surprise!

I'm not sure, if you still know me. I had been offline for about three years, but I'm back again. I saw, that Vienna is a really beautiful city and I hope to see more someday.
Now I hope to hear from you again. I'm not sure, what I should do next. At first, I think, I will play with all the other toyvoyagers, who traveled with me and those, who were here already. Maybe we will have a big toyvoyager party too. Petra just told me, that there are still some more in this house than the ones you can see with me on the photos.

Bye, Froggie

Petra's camera had been at the shop to get rid of the amount of sand in it. So we had no chance to take photos in the meantime.

Today it was warm and now there are heavy clouds at the sky. We wait for more rain.

Today we took a photo of nearly all tvs, which stay here right now. There are several tvs of our host: Aaron, Robinson, Schnuffi, Scotty, Cassiopeia and Simba Leon. Then there are the regular guests: BarryO, Bubo, Henry, Sanji, Tuffy, NiliHH, Jack, Chuckle, WillyW. All the others are tvs, which stayed with hosts, who had some problems and no chance to send them on to their owners or the next host, including me. It is the biggest amount of toyvoyagers I ever had around me

A thunderstorm is coming.

I like this Christmas decoration on the window. It's on the same place each year. If you like it too and want the originals to cut them out for yourself, please send a note to Petra.
It's a nice place for us toyvoyagers, too. It is warm and you can see everything that's going on on the street






The first photo is without flash, just to show you, how dark it is outside although it is early midday. If Petra hasn't done a mistake, then there are 26 toyvoyagers sitting together. Some are her toyvoyagers, some her daughters and some are rescued toyvoyagers, which still are at her place and of course some are guests, who will move on again.

After the big group photo session the guests finished the stars.




Of course we other toyvoyagers were really curious and came to take a look at the beautiful stars.







Later a group of starsingers visited our house, but we just had been too slow, so we aren't on this photo. Nevertheless we thougth, that it is a good idea to show you, how starsingers can look like. They don't carry one of our stars, though. They belong to the church region, were our hosts live, but our hosts go to another church, where they lived before. It's a bit complicated




In the afternoon we all helped our Petra to bake two cakes. She told us, that tomorrow isn't only Epiphany, but also her husbands 50th birthday and that we will go to the parish hall and carry cakes with us. At first we baked a Hermann cake. It is a cake like a round robin, that's how it seems for me. Petra told us, that she received a part of the cake a few days ago and that she had to stir it and to feed it and that now it is ready to get baken. Of course we added some more stuff like flour, sugar, almonds, cinnamon, chocolate pieces.

We read the recipe.




Then we had to get some more dishes for the "kids" of this cake.




We had been really busy.



























We also added some apple pieces.






We wondered, if this dish would be big enough and decided, that it wasn't. So we took a star for the dough of Hermann.

Petra has created the German Rescue, so she keeps an overview over all the toyvoyagers at her place. The German Rescue is for toys, who were stuck at a place and then send on to fam-united.

I'm sure, I will travel home as soon as you write to my host.

Finally I found time to read these two pages of two different newspapers of the week. The one is about Bruchsal asparagus. Bruchsal is famous for its asparagus fields and auctions.





The other newspaper page is about the baroque palace of Bruchsal. I think, you have a good view to many different parts of the main building with the church tower, but still many houses are missing.

We have typical April weather in Bruchsal. There is sunshine and the next moment there is hail and thunder and rain.