Travelog for: *Nick*

In the morning we started to my first hostmum Strunki 
Cause I don't want to travel in an envelope mum accompanied me and my friends to Remscheid where I'll stay with HelmutBluepant and Charlotte 
We were welcomed very warmly by Gozer, Elmar, Hase and Laika and of course by Strunki.
And we weren't the only guests: olgamaus came as well with her TV-guests, it was fantastic!!! So I got to know KoalaMimi, Rocky Raccoon, OleOrangescarf, Kirin, Tsukumo, nosyblue and Lamikins It was fantastic!!!
Hase came with presents for each of us, yummy chocolate, a candle, a lolly and a scarf, isn't it cool? 
After eating the yummy meal Strunki and her guests had cooked for us we went into a garden and built up the greatest ToyVoyager-polonaise you've ever seen 
And then the world's best party began...
Hours later mum had to drive home again so I had to say goodbye to her, The WotWots, UrselHH and Sargent Froggo
And now I'm looking forward for my adventures!
Love you all yours *Nick*

Hi World, wooow, what a party we had



and here You see some more funny pictures, hihi, but I tell You, it was a little bit hard for all of us in the morning...



...And i swear that I have nothing to do with the balloons at Helmuts ears...




But don´t worry Mum, we are all ok, but happy to get more sleep today on sunday

Love You Mum
Yours
*Nick*

Today strunki was too busy and left us alone in the house... with the huge gum-box... big mistake...

I brought Elmar, Gozer and Helmut the great idea to celebrate a "silly sports day"

Have You ever heard about gum-diving?? Here You see the very first four athlets... We hope it becomes an olympic discipline

The next discipline is "marshmellow-Balance", veeeeery difficult and You need an absolute perfect body control...





Elmar... he won, because the rest of us ate the marshmellows before the contest ended...

The last discipline was cake-jumping...





But look what happend with Elmar... his trunk plugged into a hole in the cake...

Of course I helped and pushed him out

I´m sure mummy, the next days will be funny as well

See and hughughug You
Your good boy
*Nick*

Today we had to say good bye to Laika and Gozer 


Laika, our time was too short, I regret


Gozer, a short but great time we spent together


Have a nice trip to Finland and enjoy Your stay

Hello Mum,

today we made a little trip around and under the Müngstener Brücke, the oldest and highest Railwaybridge in Germany.

Here we start over a small bridge over the Wupper and You can see the Diederichstempel


Here You have the first impression of this huge building


We found one in plushie-size, the complete area of the Wupper-valley around the bridge on an bronce-table


Here we are directly under the construction, it is soo huge and impressive...


That stone remembers, how old the bridge is.... The German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm visited Müngsten in 1899


Here is a good view


But now we left the bridge behind us for taking a walk through the nice autum forest on the footpath next to the Wupper




Here I found a fly agaric [Amanita muscaria]

But don´t worry mum, I did not want to taste it in the way the old Wikings did in the middle age... Helmut wanted, but Lotte, the old spoilsport didn´t allow it...

Here at this interesting stone with handprints carved in we rested



and met the guests of olgamaus, Tsukumo, KoalaMimi, Rocky Raccoon and her newest guest, RSG Leo

Here we are at the place called Wiesenkotten. There is a bridge and we change the riverside


Helmut and me

There we hiked on the way back

and came to this beautyful landscape


A few meters away we are under the bridge again, only much more higher and on the other side



Now we reach the Diederichstempel






And have the last nice view on the bridge from there before we enjoyed the hospitality of olgamaus with koffee and the typical Bergisch rusk





That´s it for today Mum,
love and hug You
Yours very good boy
*Nick*

Hello Mum,

today was a typical autum day here: Ist was very cold, sometimes windy and for a few moments we saw the sun
And we went to an orchard festival at Stiftung Tannenhof



At the entrance we saw the biggest apple of our life


And behind the entrance we were expected by some bronce statues



The next surprise was an nice old red tractor and we were invited to drive onto a trailer behind the tractor to have a first roundtrip on the huge area of the older parts of Tannenhof


Helmut was sooo happy to sit with me on his favourite tractor model, an old "Porsche Junior", built in the 60ties :-)

We had a lot of fun on the trailer

Our next station was a tent with some very different apples

All looked soo yummy


Behind me You can see two huge manual cider presses for apple juice


Here are impressions of the festival


and the orchard itsself


See us sitting on a warm and soft sheepskin

and carving the pumpkin was a lot of fun

but we liked the soup as well

And we love sitting under the spindle tree [Euonymus europaeus]

funny was the distorting mirror


What a full day and we were happy having the oppurtunity to chill out in the nice seat zone


What a great day, even when it was cold....
That´s it for today, mum
See and love You
Yours
*Nick*

Hello Mum,

today HelmutBluepant got a very big suprise: He got his first real camera



We all helped him to pack it out of the box



Of course the girls had to read the instruction manual first while we boys admired this new high tech instrument




But Elmar helped the girls understanding the manual

See me how I congratulate the happy Helmut


But before the first shots Helmut had to study the manual as well


Proud and happy



Helmuts very first experiences with the new cam





Looks nice and sooo professional



That´s the news of today, Mum
see and love You
Yours
*Nick*

Hi Mum,
today we went to Hohenhagen, a very high point in Remscheid



Here is the telecommunication-tower

Suddenly we saw some kites



Of course we built up our own kite as soon as possible



Then I decided to start my big adventure















I had a great flight

All my friends congratulated my to my first flight



What a nice adventure, that was great


Love You Mum
Yours
*Nick*

Hello Mum,

today we visited Wuppertal-Kohlfurth and had a lot of fun in the tram-museum there


The entrance is free but the members of the tram-club are very happy when the visitors donate an amount

See us here in front of a nice miniature landscape and a grey shunting locomotive





Here we have a small view inside the tram-hall




This was a nice tram, about 70 years ago it drove through Wuppertal

see the city coat of arms of Wuppertal



and the nice old advertisment


The timetable of the tram


The very friendly tram-conductor allowed us to see the tram from inside



Oooops


Suddenly the tram began to move... with us inside, but without us having a ticket...

But the friendly conductor sold me a sample-special-ticket for us plushies





Then we enjoyed our ride on the tram





















The next nice suprise was meeting Frederik in the tram

What a cool trip

This was our trip in Kohlfurth,
tbc at the Arboretum in Cronenberg...

after a short drive we reached the Arboretum Burgholz, an forestal area with lots of trees from all over the world, similar to a botanical garden, but much more larger


Here we found a nice blooming spindle tree [Euonymus europaeus]


This is the beginning of of the main path


From this point You have a beautiful view on the landscape


Here we made a short break and I met my brother, Frederik, who is guest of Olgamaus


Oh, how nice to meet You here, little brother, You look great

After a while enjoying the landscape we went on deeper into the forest and saw a lot of sequoia trees


See me playing in the tree


Later on the ground we found a lot of mushrooms, but we know too less about them, but some look very yummy






Perhaps we should ask HoBi, wich are eatable

At last we admired the giant sequoia trees, they are still very young there in the arboretum, but very huge




That was it for the weekend,
see You soon and love You, mum
Yours
*Nick*

Hi mum,

today its almost a nice autumnday and olgamaus invited us to accompany her and her guests Kirin, Rocky Raccoon and Frederik to a little trip in and around Hasten

Here You see the most significant Building near to the main place, a house with a round tower

We start in Büchel, where a lot of old and typical Bergisch half-timbered houses with slate fronts and green shutters are




It´s a very quiet and peaceful area here where You also can find some nice details at the houses

Look at this paintings in the backround

In the near we met a cat

some cool pumpkins

and a dog


After a while walking down to the valley of the Morsbach we reached Clemenshammer, but we didn´t stay there


Also there very impressive houses


Following the small river Morsbach, we found this huge rock with a nice poem carved in

Can You read it?
" A little shower only
She lured him
under the umbrella
tears of joy"

Then, after reaching a place called Gerstau, we met some friendly sheep


And came back into the forest again


Here we learned from a sign, that this place was used in older times to guard sheep and that the people used the forest to burn charcoal

a meadow with some more sheep and a horse


Coming out of the forest we saw an old smithy


Here we are at a small hammer-lake


See me and my best friend HelmutBluepant

I love the autum colours of the leafs


A really nice small house again


And here I am in front of the \"Haus Cleff\", a part of the Historical Centre



Near to the point from we started, we reach our last station, the church of Hasten, the "Pauluskirche"


What a nice walk for today

Love and kiss You mummy
Yours
*Nick*

Hi Mum,

today only a few pictures from a wondeful colourful heaven in the early evening.

Look at the wonderful rainbow

Monday was very stormy, but  the evening-mood was great




Good night and sleep well
Yours
*Nick*

Today we had to say good bye to Elmar, he wanted to travel home and be with his mum Biggi


Helmut gave him some yummy chocolate for his journey


And we all gave him a long and intensive hug and were sad that he had to leave us now


Then he jumped into his envelope and we wish him a good journey and waved him good bye


Good bye little Elmar, we´ll see us again, someday, somewhere

Hi mum,

today we had fun by reading the newest "Asterix"

when suddenly somebody threw Lotte and Helmut towels over their heads...

Hey Hey, it is UrselHH who arrived and surprised us with her visit


How lovely to see You again after the weeks You´ve been here taking part in the big tv-meeting here



Hase embraced Ursel with her long ears


Then she showed us her gifts, a huge bag full of yummy licorice

And the funny postcard with the dog who´s not allowed anything he does

After such a nice welcome we all sat together and continued reading the comic


That´s for today, my dear mum
love and hug You
Yours
*Nick*

Hi mum,

today I informed me about strunkis work at her office


One of her longest collegues, a snake called "Bong" I met there

He´s friendly, but often totally in another world....

Some old newspaper-article about a cow that disappeared some years ago..

...even strunki wasn´t able to tell me why they still hang there...

A lot of funny postcards I saw on the wall


And a nice picture of a young dog


See me studying a large map of the Dolomites


And us having a meeting with other important clerks here


Then it was noon, time for lunch



And having a little chill-out-break inbetween the old Christmas cactus [Schlumbergera]


But at work, especially in an office, You are not allowed to be lazy 
See me creating the newest sports: Office-punch-jumping



Perfect: My landing in the famous ear-stand

My next task: checking the copier...



Yes, functions satisfying...

Woow, now it´s home time!

Working at the office is very thrilling, exciting and I love it

That´s it from the office, now lets hurry up home for the most incredible halloween-party the plushie world has ever seen

Love You, Mum
Yours
*Nick*