Travelog for: Hase

Hello Mum,

today it was almost sunny in the morning so we decided to drive to Wuppertal and visited the "Northern Park" Nordpark there


The foothpaths are very comfortable there


Before we went into the forest, we enjoyed the view on Barmen


And found a nice monument, used as a spring in the summer


Look at the carved stone, a frog perhaps?


We also passed a popular restaurant destination, but the renovations take some years, strunki told us


O.K., instead of having a stop there, we discovered the forest


and found nice autum colours


Along our way we saw lots of beeches and yews


And found some nice treestumps where we played a little bit


See me with my pals Helmut
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and *Nick*

even Störte has fun

and little UrselHH comes on top

At last, who else? Lotte...


I like playing in the trees


so we continued our walk and wanted to visit the fallow deer in the game enclosure


We had to go deeper into the forest


And found first?

some last blooming daisy

Will we watch the deer from here?


Yes, here they are




What a nice sunday noon walk

That was is for today
Love and kisses for You Mum
Yours
Hase

Dear Mum,

today we made a short trip to the Wuppervorsperre


But before we came to the water, we had to walk trough a forest



Some last fruits we saw, perhaps red elderberry [Sambucus racemosa]?


Look at the wonderful autum colours


A woodshelter formed as a fungus, that´s nice


An alley of larch [Larix]

Even the ground is yellow because the larch is the only coniferous species that looses its needle-leafs in autum

See us having a rest


and playing between the nice coloured leafs

Finally, we reached the river banks

See me here with UrselHH

a little bit foggy, but interesting


And finally it was a very nice trip with our friends


That´s it for today,
dear mum
Yours
Hase

Sunday: Störte challenged UrselHH, Charlotte and me for backgammon

His pool was very lousy so he offered himself that we are allowed to do wht we want with him in case of loosing the game

And the game ran even more lousy for him...

astonishing calmy he reacted, when the dices didn´t bring him luck...

perhaps he planned to loose the game??

His last word: Cheers...
perhaps he planned to loose the game??

O.K. Störte... sleep well and don´t wonder how You look when you wake up and we have finish our work...


Our revenge was terrible

Welcome, Captain "Jack" Störte Sparrow...

Hello Mum,

today we went into the city and enjoyed the Festival of Lights in the Hindenburgstreet


We saw a lot of lightchains and flames in the street, all looked very comfortable und welcoming


Look at the wonderful star of the Hutterites


And the shops in this street are a refreshing alternative to the overloaded malls and shopping centers
Here is a hatterer-shop with handcrafted hats

An antique shop

And an organic grocery store


Then we found a nice place where we enjoyed deep fried almond pastry for us and a spiked hot orange punch for our eternal thirsty Störte




That´s all for today,
see and love You, Mum
until soon
Yours
Hase

Hi Mum,

today we did something for our feathered friends, the birds staying  outside in wintertime

See *Nick* with the raisins, HelmutBluepant and Charlotte with the vegetable fat, UrselHH with the oat flakes, Störte and me with the grain feed


These are old plantingpots with a stick in the middle and we want to melt the fat and mix all our ingriediences together to fill them.



So let´s start with Helmut and Lotte melting the fat in a huge panpot

That takes some time to heat the fat, but see how disciplined I am Mum, I don´t nibble my seed

Even Störte doesn´t destillate it for some brandy or so


After a while the fat began to melt

See Helmut stiring in the pot

When the fat is melted, Störte and me add the seeds


Hard work to stir it, so Störte helped me

Ursel is a tough mouse girl and doesn´t need any support she ensures to us


After mixing the seed, the oat flakes and the raisins, and stiring the mixture by *Nick*, the feeding is ready for the old little pots


See me filling the pot


Ready

When the fat cools out and becomes hard, You can turn around the pots and hang them into the trees so the birds can pick out the seeds, the oat flakes and the raisins in wintertime

That´s it for today
Yours
Hase

Hello Mum,

today we went to the Botanical Garden Solingen


Altough the autum is almost all over and only a few plants are still blooming, we had some nice views on the scenery there


Here we are in the Alpinum


Have You ever seen such a huge butterfly?


Some last blooming rosebushes


And a lot of impressive trees are here, too


Here we are at the lake that is situated in the lower part of the botanical Garden


This is a bookcrossing board situated in the middle of the garden: Some people bring their old books there and let them free and some other interested take them for reading


From here You have a wonderful view onto the lower part of the garden


Then we left the park for a while and followed the Korkenziehertrasse that´s a combined foot- and cyclepath that connects the parts of the city besides the streets mainly used by cars



Uuuhh, this tunnel was a little bit spooky


Then it was time to turn around and walk back trough the garden. When we left, we saw the huge sign with lots of donators helping that the botanical garden in Solingen can be still open

Later we passed the nice oldtown of Solingen-Gräfrath and enjoyed the Christmas-lights at the market place


Have a nice first Advent


Love
Yours
Hase

Hello Mum,

*Snow * Snow * Snow*


But first we congratulated *Nick* to his birthday today


Suddenly St. Nicholas came to us and all of us got a present because we behaved well this year


Look what I got


Then we gave *Nick* his present

and sung our happy-birthday-song for him

A golden bear exclusive for him

See us having fun in the snow


What a nice day
See You soon, Mum
Yours Hase

Dear Mum,

Happy second sunday in Advent
wish You Hase and friends

We have a lot of fun swinging in the Advent wreath

Yours
Hase

Hello Mum,
today were a lot of surprises waiting for us:-)


At first an envelope from You arrived

I was totally upset

and so I crawled into the envelope....

I needed a while, but I stayed in the envelope to surprise my friends..

Tadaaahhh

Oh Mum, You sent my pullover and the nice winter-cap i got from jasper in Switzerland, Thanks a lot

We all admired the nice postcard You wrote


and love the angel that was sent by


The next happy surprise was the nice postcard OleOrangescarf sent us

Look at the iluminated windmill standing in the open-air-museum in Detmold, thanks a lot, dear Ole

At last a huge parcel from RikeH

What would be in there??

See Charlotte and Störte creating a new sports: Parceldiving...

A christmas present for Lotte....

Will she be brave enough to wait until christmas??

But what about the envelope??

Lotte isn´t able to wait any longer, she MUST open anything NOW....


What a suprise... it´s Soeren

Lotte passes out


UrselHH gives Soeren a warm welcome


I´m very happy to welcome him as well


Störte and Soeren: family members reunited


Helmut is also happy to meet Soeren again


What an eventful evening

Hello Mum,

today is the day we will meet mcdaniels in Dortmund again, Soeren is sooo happy spending the last days here and had a great time together with störte, UrselHH, HelmutBluepant, *Nick*, Charlotte and me

And now I´m totally upset and we are ready to start having a nice time togther at the christmas fair in Dortmund

Here we are in Dortmund now in front of the supposedly biggest christmas tree of the world: built from about 1.500 single conifers


See little Mefito and me


After this first Hello we went into a café and welcomed the other plushies each other

From the left: GustavHH, Charlotte, me, HelmutBluepant, Kirin, OleOrangescarf, DottyCroc, Dutchy the Lion, Mefito, Soeren, Josie, UrselHH, SunnyHH, störte,Sargent Froggo and*Nick*


And here we are together with our best friends, talking about our latest adventures




Who else with who else??


Then, when it became darker, we started our trip around the christmas market


Nice and wonderful iluminations everywhere


This shop with the paper stars and buildings we loved most


What a wonderful day in Dortmund with our friends



Love You Mum and see You soon
Yours
Hase

Hello Mum,

this afternoon we went on the little christmas market in Barmen


Lotte and me liked this train a lot, but we didn´t find nice gifts there


Strunki told us not to worry about, there a a few days left and so we played in the colourful little christmas tree in her office




In the evening we went to a christmas party of the aquarist society gatw Wuppertal



Lots of yummy eating we had there


Here we check the winnings donated by the members for the tombola


Next to us the members have already bought their lottery tickets

The rules are easy and very fair: There are two identical sheet calendars, one sheet for each day. From the one calendar You buy day-sheets, each one costs one EUR. From the second calender the same days You bought were sampled in the lottery wheel. That means that there aren´t any blanks and each lottery ticket has the chance to win. the first winner is allowed to chose one of the winnings on the table what he wants to have and so on until all prizes are raffled


And guess what? We won something! Look , the 8th of June was taken out of the lottery wheel and we have this sheet


The next winnings came a few moments later

Hmmm, blackberry liqueur


And we won a third time: home made elderberry jelly


What a nice and lucky evening, we have a lot of fun there



That´s all for today,
See and love You, Mum
Yours Hase

Hi Mum,

today we celebrate Charlotte´s birthday and had a lot of fun



See me congratulating her

All of us have a lot of fun with Lotte

...but now she misses her presents...

You stand on them, look under the red cloth and under the bowl You sit on... Hihi, we hided them...


From me she gets a tweezer


Then it was time to drink some sparkling elderberry secco

and eat some yummy homemade birthday cakes togehter


But before we started drinking and eating, UrselHH reminded Lotte on the birthday card sent by RikeH



And now lets start having fun with eating and drinking


Oh Yes, störte has fun


Yeah

*Nick* also has fun


What a party


That´s all for today
Yours
Hase

Hello Mum,

today we made a short trip around the Müngsten Bridge again, because the weather ist quite open and the temperatures are still o.k.

We start at the confluence of the stream Morsbach and the river Wupper

from the right You see the Morsbach and behind me the bigger one is the Wupper

From the bridge over the Wupper You have a first view to the so called Diederichstemple

This place we want to visit first

But first we wanted to ask the puddle-oracle

O.K., the oracle says that it isn´t frosty, not dry, but not too wet for a little hiking trip

So we started hiking. It was a little bit tedious uphill, but we did it

See me starting


After a while we came to this nice Siepen and rested there a few minutes


Then we arrived our first target: Diederichstemple


Look at this huge Müngsten Brigde from there



After a while hiking downhill, we came to this strange sculptures...

And we asked us, what this could be? Some of us voted for some birdhouses and some think, it could be a special ToyVoyager playground...

Finally, we decided, that it must be a playground

Then we passed a little river-island in the Wupper


And learned some interesting details about the fauna and flora in and around the Wupper here


Finally we reached our last target: The Müngsten Brigde


And here our tour ended

Love You, Mum,
Yours
Hase

Hello Mum,

today is Christmas Eve and we wait for Father Christmas. But before, we have to decorate the christmastree. Strunki gave us a huge box



Let´s have a look inside



It´s full of christmastreedecoration


Look, Mum, what nice figurines I found

A big bear hold a small bear

I´ll hang it into the tree


Here´s the next one

A bird house with two little birds


I love it

And I found another one for the tree

A bear with a drum, a candle and a little christmastree

Another bear, ouups, he´s handicapped, his arms are missing


Finally a purple bow of ribbon for the top of the tree


Now our christmastree is fully decorated and we have to be patient and wait for Father Christmas bringing the presents for us this night



What will we get?



A few hours later, when we woke up, the sensation happened:




I got a present for christmas!!! What can it be??


Look Mummy



a necklace in red and white

There is one last present still to be opened, it is from RikeH for strunki and she allowed us alltogether to open it for her


Look at the wonderful christmas card

UrselHH reads it to us

All of us, especially strunki, are very moved by the warm and friendly christmas greetings of RikeH

Then we open the box alltogether

and the first we see is Kleine Fee with Charlotte

Wooow, it is a mug with two pictures on

the other picture shows Dicker Kumpel with HelmutBluepant

What a wonderful idea, the nicest christmas present at all strunki said

What a nice handing out of presents

We all are sooo happy with the wonderful gifts this eve



Now let us have our christmas dinner

Yummy homemade cookies



To all of You

Merry Christmas

Love You
Yours
Hase