Travelog for: Sweetheart-

Oh i forgot, before we begin with the preparation, we make for our host a cup of caramell latte macchiato.

Lovely greetings.

Hi Mom,

we make Mini Pancakes with a little bit cacao. They were very yummy

My journey now continues to Finland

Sweetheart

I´m in Finland now!

Today I came to the post office and my host met "my box" there. The last kilometer I traveled by bike and ...

...Here I am!  When my box was opened I was excited... Two other ToyVoyagers, Sooky (a cute pig) and *Paul* (a special blue dotted leopard) were there to welcome me and give kisses for me. I felt like I was very welcome. I also met a Grandfather Teddy Bear.

I think this will be a great journey!

Sweetheart

Good morning!

I was very tired after traveling all the way to up here. I slept well under my green blanket and had a lovely breakfast.

When I was completely woken up I started to learn where I am staying. Firs I found that I am not the biggest Teddy Bear in the house: not one but two BIG bears live here and they are very friendly!

I learned how the flag of Finland looks like and I realized that I´m really on top of the world  On the map it is also written the name of the city where I´m staying.

Tomorrow I will go to my host´s working place...

Sweetheart

Working day

My host has a very nice job... It is mostly playing  I met lots of friendly toys there. Even the angry birds are friendly, believe me!

I was a little cold in in the morning so I decided I need a wool scarf. Knitting was not as easy as it looks... My host helped me to finish my scarf and now I´m warm 

Lots of WARM greetings,

Sweetheart

Today I went to a Sunday evening service in a church. On the way there I saw the old and beautiful railway station and got a picture of it trough the car window. I also saw the new and ugly railway station... No picture of that one 

First I looked the church from outside. Taulumäki church is the biggest church in Jyväskylä. It was built 1929. It is the first church in Finland by a female architect. Elsi Borg was her name.

Inside we took just a couple of photos and after that we respected the ceremony and sat still. I liked especially the choir with a djembe drum.

Sweetheart

Hello!

It was my pleasure to welcome a new ToyVoyager to this home: Here is Krok Little and he is from The Netherlands.

I almost don´t believe this: it was snowing all day long and everything is so WHITE! Even the flag is blue and white... And the blue moment is so ... BLUE 

Sweetheart

Good morning!

When Krok woke up we made us nice cups of coffee 
And I can tell you: it will be many more cups of coffee together!

<3 Sweetheart <3

City tour Part 1

It was snowing again but we decided to do our city tour as planned.

I was happy to notice that bears are allowed to walk in the center -for people there was a sign that says no walking...

We took pictures of some beautiful buildings and doors...

To be continued...

City tour Part 2


We saw more interesting doors and walked until the stone steps leading up the ridge of Jyväskylä. Then we came to the Town Hall and realized that Jyväskylä is celebrating the 175th birthday!

I was happy to see that there is a Teddy Bear Café in this town 
Inside a shopping center we had some fun...

More pictures coming...

The church

In the center on Jyväskylä is the main church of town. This is how it looks from outside.

This is the end of today´s city tour!


Sweetheart

Homing

They really like to watch movies in this home! I also found my favorite movies and they are, of course, with bears 

My host collects post cards. She has a huge collection of bicycle cards (thousand hundred something...) and also a nice collection of Teddy Bear cards.

While my friend Krok was baking muffins I decided to cook! We had muffins for dessert 

Sweetheart

Look at today´s pizza!

Good morning! Hyvää huomenta!

Cycling around I saw some cars, bridges, speaking stones...

Sweetheart

Museum area

We visited also a museum area where we saw old Finnish buildings. And I climbed to a tree -that´s what bears do  There was also an old barn where they dance in the weddings summer time. My host has been dancing there!

After cycling some kilometers we also saw the oldest building of Jyväskylä (the red log house). On the way there we found a bottle but we could not figure out what was in it...

Sweetheart