Travelog for: Small Fry

Today I said Hello to Morado and Goodbye to Kuma. Here we are lounging on steelxrose's deck.


I am leaving for Oregon tomorrow.

Small Fry arrived in Oregon today and was very dry from staying in his traveling compartment so long. 

Jelly, our official greeter for visiting toyvoyagers was excited to see how small "SmallFry" was.  Jelly loooooves little fishies and gave the typical welcome hug.

Small Fry also needed to get a refreshing drink when arriving here in Oregon and visited the little fountain in the garden for a few minutes.  Ahhhhhh!    Very nice indeed.

While visiting Oregon "Small Fry" was lucky enough to see the pacific ocean on the second day of his voyage.
Although it was dark and dreary with overcast skies and the ocean calm,  small fry had a great time wishing he could jump into the sea and play forever. 
In these photos you can see the Siuslaw River that flows into the sea on the Florenece, Oregon coast.

Into the city today to a wonderful place called "Aqua Serene" where there are a great deal of all types of fish. 

SmallFry enjoyed viewing the large Koi although he thought the one big guy was getting a bit close so he moved away quickly.  He could tell he wanted to give him a big kiss. 

Then finally he got to meet Nemo but he did agree that he might be a cousin of the actual Nemo as he was still very small.  He was very friendly and wanted to get very close too. 

SmallFry found a very large "Make a Wish" pond where he threw in a penny and made a wish.  He is keeping his wish a secret.

Then he saw a relative of Nemo.  He looks very much like him with his beautiful stripes but he mentioned to SmallFry that he was not Nemo.
Just before leaving SmallFry got to sit next to a very large Konk that wispered in his ear. 

Visiting Aqua Serene was a pleasant experience.  I am glad my host took me there for a visit.

While feeling very dry and parched a young SmallFry mentioned he needed to be around more water.  Today we ventured to a lake called Fern Ridge.  There we saw boats in the marina and played along the shorline.  This made SmallFry feel greatly refreshed.

While viewing from the dock SmallFry came across a sign he had never seen before.  His host mentioned that he might be able to splash about here in the lake but he can not "dive off the bridge" into the lake. 
Funny!  Do you think they mean little fishies too?

Little SmallFry heard there was going to be a birthday party here for Vince who arrived from the Netherlands.  SmallFry had never been to a party before. 

It was very exciting to meet all the new toyvoyagers here at my host home in America.  She really knows how to put on a party. 
Here you can see me with my little hat.  There were so many at the party I almost got lost in the crowd.

Happy birthday Vince.  What a great day!

Hi Steelxrose, I'm here in Bruchsal now and looking forward to see many interesting places.
Here you see the envie with me in it and then unpacked and meeting all my new friends: Tamalyn, Dottie Grace, Decker, Alfie Langer, Tux, Glory, Bongo, Elisabeth





Here is the place, where all toyvoyagers sit in the livingroom since the weather is colder and you need to make a fire in the oven (on which the toyvoyagers normally sat during summer).

The first thing we did was playing soccer. Can you imagine, how it was for me to play that match? It's not so easy to play "sit-soccer" (that's how my hosts call it) without legs and arms. But of course I did my very best.


At first everyone sat on the place, where he or she was supposed to be. You only had been allowed to move on the place by turning around, but without walking and that was a very good point for me. Alfie Langer was the referee. He was the only one with a real soccer shirt.



At once Tamalyn tried to score, but Elisabeth did a good work and



just jumped to the right place and caught the ball. But then her punt was bad and luckily Bongo got the ball. He tried to score, but Decker was just at the right place to defend in front of Tux, who was the goalkeeper.



At the end of the first half we still played 0:0, but of course we had some chances for the first goal.


Start of the second half



Somehow Glory fell. I know, that I didn't hit her or something.



I nearly shot a goal after that, but Tux was such a good goalkeeper. Glory fell again, maybe she already was very tired, she is so tiny.



Here Tamalyn got the ball and tried to play to Glory. I'm sure, you see my nose.



Luckily I got the ball to play, but had no chance to score.



After a while Alfie Langer had to talk to Dottie Grace, who complained about something I didn't understand.



1:0 for my team!!! Thanks to Dottie Grace!!



And then a silly thing happened on our side. Bongo and I tried to catch the ball with our bodies, but we had no luck.



Elisabeth jumped to the right side of her goal, but the ball rolled into the goal on the left side.
So at the end the result was 1:1



After the match we danced around the ball, because we were happy that nobody had lost in this match.

Today it is National Holiday of Germany and most people don't go to work on that day. There are some celebrations, that you can watch in tv (television, not in a toyvoyager ). But the people in Germany don't really celebrate on that day.
Petra and her family decided to go shopping in the Alsace, which is in France.

In Lauterburg my hosts had lunch. We were in a restaurant, where you only could order pancakes or crepes to eat and of course something to drink.

Then we drove to Weissenburg (Wissembourg), because we wanted to see the old part of that city, but it was so crowded, that we headed home again.

Not far away from Weissenburg we found this chapel. I think, it was very interesting.
Of course it was a little crowded by us toyvoyagers, but we tried to keep silent.

The German Winegate is a building of the worst time in German history. It was built in 1936 officially to make the wineyards of the Palatinate more famous. Of course it was also a provocation against France, because the border is very close (only 1km to Wissembourg). The gate is the end point of the Palatinate Wine Route.
(I can't put this online without telling, that I'm so sorry for everything that happened during these years.)

I only saw this church, when we drove through Karlsruhe, but I heard, that there is a nice palace too.