Travelog for: little Sunny

Hi mommy!

I have got nice time here. I have made new friends with other toys here, and we have got fun!

Today I was outside, and I saw some great things of the autumn.
Look the photos, mom, and you can see the colours of nature, too.
Yes, it's the most colourful time of this season, very soon all trees will be "naked", and then it's time wait some snow coming. I'm so exited, I want to see some snow... but I have to wait little more first...

I'm fine here, mom.

Love,
little Sunny

Hei! Hello!

It's getting quite cold outside in Finland already.
Can you believe, the weather forecast has said it will be minus degrees Celcius outside in this weekend?!?    And it might be snowing in Lapland very soon...     

I'm only wondering, when will come the first snow here Central Finland... Oh, I just need to wait little more...

Just take a look at the picture. There's a sign, and you can see how far away Jyväskylä city is from other countries... Wow! 

Love,
little Sunny

Hi mommy!

Something exiting happened today. My hostmom is active in postcrossing hobby, and today I had a chance to take part in the postcrossing meeting! It was really fun! 
I was there with Kurnau, Alberto, Gwen Jolie and Matsya.

The meeting place was a wonderful postcard shop named Harjun Paperi. It's absolutely the best postcard shop in this town (it's like a postcard heaven).

And what we did in the meeting... Well, we did chat to each other, and eat some great snacks... 



...and we wrote many postcards...



...and while people wrote even more postcards, we toys were exploring in the shop.







It was fun!

Love,
little Sunny

Hi mommy!

Today I visited to see the oldest building of Jyväskylä.
The building called as Taavettilan riihi, which is in English the drying barn of Taavettila.
The building has buildt somewhere in 1700's, the exact year is unknown.
First, building used as a drying barn, but somewhere in 1800's it became usual barn/cabin and it got windows then. In 1900's the building started to be a cabin museum.

Jyväskylän vanhin rakennus = the oldest building of Jyväskylä
Riihi muutettu tuvaksi 1800-luvun alussa = a drying barn has turn to be a cabin in the beginning of 1800's
Jyväskylän yliopisto = University of Jyväskylä
Rakennus 3 = Building 3





The door was closed. I tried to open it, but it was locked.





Because we didn't have a chance to go in, we decided to look through the window...







Love,
little Sunny

Hello mommy!

Guess what? Something white thing has came here. It's all over outside.
It's cold, white, and it's covering everything!!!     

YES!!! It's the first snow!!! 

Winter is just around the corner... Temperature has been about -3 degrees Celcius the hole day.



Brrrrr... snow is so cold!



All others came to sit on the snow, too. Brrrrrrr...





Ooooops! What just happened?!?    Some snow fall on us!



Hih... it was only fun! 

Love,
little Sunny

Hei! Hello mom!

Kurnau told me, that we all toys can travel with hostmom, when she will visit her parents in other side of Finland in this weekend. I was totally exited about it. It's so cool to see other placed in Finland, too.

Kurnau showed me the map. Can you see the spots A and B in the map? Yes, that's our travel plan, it's about 320 kilometres.
We are going to little village called Ilomantsi. It's in the Northern Karelia in Finland.



After sitting 4 hours in the car, I was tired and I wanted to relax.
So, I experienced one Finnish thing, how to relax and take a bath at the same time: I went to sauna!!!





And guess what? 
I met saunatonttu (=the elf of sauna) there!!!



This room, sauna, is a hot place. Saunas are very common in Finland (maybe because the cold and long winter seasons?!?). Finns go to sauna to wash themselves, but also to relax. They throw some water to the kiuas (it's like the "oven", and there are some stones on it), and this hot kiuas makes the hole room so warm place to be.





AAAaaaaahh, I'm sooooo relaxed now!!!

Love,
little Sunny

Hi mommy!

Unfortunately, the weather is awful here... it's raining a lot... 
So, there's no sightseeing here today...

But, the bad weather is not the problem for us!  We can do many fun things inside, too. 

At first, I want to show you the coat of arms of Ilomantsi. It looks like this:



And because there's three kanteles (kantele = it's one kind of instrument) in the picture of the coat of arms, I wanted to play this instrument.

And happily I can say, that I did it. I played kantele.   
Kantele is the national instrument of Finland, and especially in Karelia.



Others played it, too.



And then, we found this marvellous little building! Wow! 



Hi hiiiiii!!!!! Here I am! 





And then, I saw something, what I first couldn't believe... 

Look yourself! Is it cool? So many medals and pokals etc!!!   

...Hih, and I'm there somewhere, too. Can you find me?



Well, can you see me now?



Great! You found me!!! Well done! 



Oh, one more photo for today...

I'm dreaming: "...and the winner is....... LITTLE SUNNY!!!"
Hurray!!! 



It was fun day!

Love,
little Sunny

Hello mommy!

It's last day of our visit in Ilomantsi, and the weather is still bad...

Well, because outside is terrible, we decided to make nice inside this house.
Yes, we are going to bake some cookies!



First need to use kaulin (= a rolling pin).



Then it's time to make cookies. I made bunny shaped cookies.



Kurnau helped. He put the cookies to the cookie sheet.



Mmmmmm... it smells so good already! 



Cookies are ready! Yummy!!! 



Now it's time to enjoy! 



Love,
little Sunny

Hi!

I read today's local newspaper named Keskisuomalainen today.
Finnish is nice language, but very difficult to learn. But my hostmommy helped me to read the newspaper.

Here's the front page:



There was a big article about what happened last Saturday in Jyväskylä. A huge amount of water were wasted, because the watertower crashed down suddenly. Many people had to be some times without running water in their homes. The article tried to tell what really had happened. This was one big news here. (it was lucky, that I was in Ilomantsi last weekend).



And then there was some advertisements.



Hi hii, these speaking bubbles look so funny, don't you think so?



Well... Ice hockey (jääkiekko in Finnish) is very popular sport in Finland. And offcourse there's at least one article of it in the newspaper.



I liked reading comics. They were so funny!



And offcourse I watched very carefully the weather forecast. 
It looks quite nice. Maybe we could go outside in the next following days...



Love,
little Sunny

Hei! Hello!

Now I want to introduce you hostmommy's cat named Jeppe. He is 2 years old, and very kind one.



He is so funny cat! He is tickeling me with his moustaches!
Hih hih hiiiii! I can't stop laughing! 



Please please stop tickeling me, Jeppe!

Look, he stopped right a way!!! 



Then we played a new game: staring game.
The winner is who stare longer without looking other direction.



Hi hii... I was the winner! 

Love,
little Sunny

Hei! Hello!

Today was nice weather outside, so I went there for little walk and to have some fresh air.
I went to place called Harju (Jyväskylä Ridge). It's like a hill just next to city center.

As you can see from the pictures, there's not snow anymore.
All snow has melted away. Well, it's not a surprise, because it was the first snow.



These stone stairs of Harju is very long...



There's city center down there.





This building is called Vesilinna. It's located in Harju.
And there's the viewing tower in the building, too. I'm going there.



Look, so nice views!!! 







Love,
little Sunny

Hello!

Today I helped hostmommy to write some Christmas cards.
It was really fun!

I'm sooooo exited, because Christmas is coming closer and closer every day!!!

Very soon I can experience Christmas in Finland, the homecountry of Santa Claus!!!

Oh, do you thing I could meet Santa himself here?!?

Love,
little Sunny

Hi!

I was walking outside today, because it was really nice weather (-4 degrees Celcius, snowing very light).
BUT, there was quite dark already outside, even thought it was only afternoon! 

Hostmommy told me about kaamos (the Polar night).
It's the time of the year when the sun doesn't rise at all within few months!!!
Can you believe it, the sun is completely below the horizon so long time in Lapland in winter?     
Luckily, this happens only Lapland, inside the polar circles.
But the effects can be seen here in Central Finland, too. In winter light-time during days are only some hours per day, and the most of time is dark...





Look mommy!!! There's some kids playing ice hockey! 
Ice hockey (jääkiekko in Finnish) is very popular hobby in Finland.
Very very popular!



Then I continued walking, and I arrived in Harju. I have been in Harju earlier, too, but not in dark time. Look, there's so beautiful lights there! 







And here is the long stone steps of Harju Ridge. There's city center down there.



I think this tree looks little spooky and scary!!! BOOOO!!!  hihi



And here are we all toys (me, Kurnau, Nyankororin, Bussi and Phog). We are very near of the city center.





Then I saw something really nice! A Christmas tree!!!   
Oooooh, it's so big! But really beautiful with all those lights and a star





Now I'm in the city center. I'm going to see some Christmas lights... 



Beautiful!







This big star is the most beautiful Christmas light I have seen here!
Look, there's also a star on the ground... or it looks like a star. Hostmommy told me, that “the star” on the ground is a big compass!!! 
Yeah, when I looked it more carefully, I saw there's a biggest arrow to show the North. Cool!



I saw many interesting things today.

Love,
little Sunny

Hello!

Today is the first day of December. It was time to start opening the Christmas/advent calender.



It's so fun! 



Today's picture looks like this:



Every day in this month we toys can see a new picture in this calender.
How exiting!!!

Love,
little Sunny

Hello!

I want to show you the view through the hostmommy's window. Just take a look at photos...

It has been snowing here the hole day!
And as you can see, there's already lots of snow outside.
Hostmommy promised, that tomorrow I can go out and play with snow! Great!!! 

Love,
little Sunny