Travelog for: Bloem

Hi all!
In the upcoming days (or weeks) I am going to get Bloem ready for her journey around the world!

Please contact us if you want to be Bloem's host, let her stay at your home and show her the site-seeings of your hometown & country.

Please, don't drop her into the wild (she's to young to be left alone).

Travel-list:
Australia - gingermuggins
United States - wmphimu
United States - heyknithappens
Austria - ChristinaB
Russia - Oksana
Ukraine - okurochkin
France - Fleurdunord
Germany - Mizzery
Germany - fam-united
South Africa - Lizette

Important:
(The following infrmation is important to my (future) hosts)
* I want to stay at least one week, and my maximum stay is one month, then I want to go to someone else.
* I have a notebook with me, wich I want to write in during my stay.
* Please update my Travelog at least once a week.
* My mommy & friends love to see pictures of me on my journey.
* If you like...give me a little souvenier with me during my journey, so I can surprise my mommy & friends when I am coming home again (be sure the souvenir is not to big & heavy).

Me and my mommy made some pictures today.
Just for fun & to show you a little bit of me (more are coming this weekend)...


This is me then...




Me behind the PC

Next pictures are with me & my Woof-buddies, who I am going to miss so much...!







Well everybody...Now you know already a bit more bout me. I am going to sleep...we have a very busy day tomorrow...

Hi again!
I am still home, but my mommy say I will start my journey within a week or so...oeh I'm so excited!

Today we had a relaxing day, wel...I did. My mommy was busy. She had to go shopping for her mother & for my upcoming trip.

But when she was backhome, we went for a walk in the forest with the doggies.



You can see that Spring is coming soon...the flowers of this season are blooming already.



Me with some beautiful flowers.



The doggies were running & playing....they always have so much fun outside. Well I think it was way to cold outside Brrrr!

When we were backhome again, we baked a pizza. Yummi





Mmmm...that tasted well!

Now it's time to go to bed. Mommy have to wake up early, couse she have to go to her work for a few minutes tomorrow-morning.

Bye bye! and goodnight

Finnally Bloem started her journey today!
I brought her to the postoffice. I hope she will arrive at her host (gingermuggins) soon.
Good luck Bloem! Have good trip!

I Have Arrived

Roar  Roar  Roar

Sorry mommy, i didn't mean to sound scary. I really wanted to get out and see the sunshine and smell the fresh air. It has been a long time since i saw anyone or anything. I could hear voices outside my travel bag. I thought to myself if i roar loudly someone will help me out. Luckily my new host could see from the return address it was me inside the bag and not a loud scary man eating monster.









It feels so good to strech my long legs and arms. I think i'll lay here for awhile and look around my hosts home.

Big hugs to you
Bloem xx

HI 

I went for a drive today to a small country town called Casterton. My host let me steer the car, it was scary but fun at the same time.



This is the welcome sign to the town



I brought a postcard with a picture of the town on it. My host said i can send it home to you!

When we returned to my hosts home i saw some of the cows who live here.



I saw a really pretty sunset tonight. The photo isn't as good as seeing it for real though. Lovely colours, orange, red, pink and purple.

Happy Easter Mommy

Easter Bunny visited while we were sleeping and left for me a beautiful chocolate in the shape of a Bilby. The bilby is a small australian animal with big long ears and a long tail. I also got some other chocolates and on the wrappers are pictures of other Australian animals, a koala, wombat and kangaroo. I am going to eat the chocolate hehe and stick the wrappers in my notebook.



We went to my host's family's home for dinner. A bbq. Here i am watching the meat being cooked.



I was asked if i wanted a drink of Australian beer but i didn't. It didn't smell nice! So i just had my photo taken with the beer bottle.

Hello Again

Today was a horrible day. The weather was stormy and wet. Lots of thunder and lightening, very noisy and scary.







Here is Pirate telling me not to be too scared of the horrible weather.



My host tells me it's going to be wet and stormy weather for the next few days. Hopefully we can get out and see some things though.

Big Hugs to you mommy.
xx Bloem xx

Hi

I had a busy day today. Two new toyvoyagers came to stay. Leo Lion and Roberto. They were very hungry after being in the post box so Sam, my host, told us we would need to go shopping for food. It was lots of fun shopping. The other tv's and me had our own shopping cart and we filled it with yummy food.I got to push the cart around because i am the tallest toyvoyager here!



When we got to Sam's home after our shopping expidition, we had a little picnic. We couldn't have it outside because of the rain. Sam's children dressed us up. There was so many pretty dresses for me to choose. I decided on the red cape as it made me look like little red riding hood! Pirate joined us for the picnic too.



I think we ate too much. We had to have a bear nap!



When we woke we could hear someone singing in the garden. It had stopped raining so we ran outside to investigate. It was Fifi Flowertot who has just registered to become a toyvoyager. She loves to do the gardening and sing to all the plants and flowers in Sam's garden. She was picking tomatoes but was happy to have a photo taken with us all.



Fifi showed us some native Australian flowers called Protea's and Banksia's. They don;t really smell but they are very pretty and big.



It is late night here now. The children have gone to bed and now it's time for me to close my eyes and dream of the fun times i have had today.

I miss you mommy
Big hugs
xx Bloem xx

Hello

We have had a couple of quiet days. The weather has been awfully cold and wet.
Today i ate a Lamington. It's like a small sponge cake, coated in melted chocolate and rolled in desicated coconut.



Sometimes they can have a strawberry flavour to them. Some people say it's a traditional Australian cake. I had a strawberry tasting lamington and it was yummy!



Big tiger hugs
xx Bloem xx

Hello Mommy

Today we had a new toyvoyager arrive, ducky-duck and also an adpoted toyvoyager who my host has named Eliza. We sat around and chatted for awhile.



The weather is still horrible. Very wet and windy. I dream of sunshine and blue skies all the time.

Big hugs to you
xx Bloem xx

Hi

We are still having very stormy weather here. Lots of rain and wind. Trees have fallen down, branches blown all over the property. The last few days have been spent clearing up outside and helping neighbours too.

I'm not sure if you can see the trees blowing in this picture.



For most of the day the power was out because of trees falling on the power lines around the area. We played card games, read a book about australian animals and bush life, then when we were feeling cold and sleepy we settled back in bed and watched a movie on the portable dvd player, luckily it is run by batteries and not power from the house.









I'll speak to you again soon.
Hugs
xx Bloem xx

Hello!

You wouldn't believe how quick the weather changes around here. Today was a beautiful sunny day. Blue skies, white fluffy clouds, sunshine all around, very different from the last week! Just when we thought it was a great day we saw something that wasn't too great. Lots of thick, black smoke rising from the forest. Yes, it was a fire! We thought maybe it was started on purpose but after some investigating (lots of phone calls), Sam found out it was a controlled burn by the forestry people. They were cleaning up fallen trees and branches after last weeks windy weather. Phew, our minds were put at ease, it wasn't too far from Sam's home!

Hi!

Bloem left us today to continue her adventures. She said a fond farewell to the other TV's who are visiting here.



She then looked back on her travellog and gave a cyber hug to her dear woof-buddies who she misses alot.





We had a great time with her and we will all miss her. We wish her safe travels and hope to see some updates of her soon.

Hello from Virginia! I arrived yesterday, and after a quick nap, I found out that I arrived just in time to help celebrate Passover! First Easter in Australia, now Passover in the United States - what a cultured tiger I am becoming! Mara's family is Jewish, and they celebrate the first two nights of Passover with a seder. Last night I traveled with them to her sister's house for a seder (but we forgot to take pictures!), and tonight we went to her parents' house. First, Plaid Moose, Mister Snow, and I helped to set up for the seder. Here I am putting the roasted egg on the seder plate:

Next the three of us read from the Haggadah, where we learned about the Passover story & symbols:

Mara said that her favorite part of the seder was the charoset - a yummy mix of apples, walnuts, & wine! It was my favorite too!

And I got to taste matzah too!