The Adventures of Bokeh the Ragdoll - Day Two!

(continued from yesterday, staying in Bokehs voice)

Monday I went to FedEx Ground.


Normally I pass through these places only able to hear them, so this was something different to be able to see it. There are two main areas - the area that loads up trailers in the evening, and the area that loads the vans that get delivered in the morning.

This is me in the area for the trailers. Each set of rollers back up to a door where the trailer is... there's over 50 doors on this side, and space on the other side of the facility for 20 more! In peak times, all the doors are used!


When I went to the area that loads the delivery vans, they let me sit in the drivers seat of a bulk truck.


HI!!


All the packages travel 'up stairs.' They call it that because it's actually up a big set of stairs. The packages travel on the belts really fast!


And they all go through a scan tunnel that scans all the sides of the box at the same time - even the bottom! How does it do that?? Hey, it's me Bokeh, in some bokeh!!


There's all these slides everywhere, to get packages from one place to another. I want to slide down this one! It's really really big!


Everyone has to go through security when they leave. They walk through metal detectors, and anything they brought in has to be put in these buckets for the guards to check. Good thing no one's given me any jewelry yet - jewelry is prohibited!


Does this clock say the time I think it says!?!?! Good thing my eyes are sewn open, or I'd have a hard time staying awake!


In the morning, we got me all packed up for my next stop - Michigan! Passport - check. New socks - check. A platypus to call my own - triple check!


And I'll miss these two!!! Olivia and Claire (and Heather of course) have been wonderful hostesses!


See you Ohio! It's been fun!!

The Adventures of Bokeh the Ragdoll: Day One

I'm a member of a photography forum... I'm a bad member in the sense that I'm terrible at responding and starting my own posts, but I love the forum because the photographers are all really supportive of one another, and they're a wealth a knowledge. One member created Bokeh. Bokeh is a ragdoll. She's traveling around the globe to all the photographers on our forum... each photographer is adding an article of clothing to her, and then photographing her around their hometown. Once Bokeh's traveled around and makes it back to the beginning, the head of this is going to auction her for breast cancer research. It's a pretty cool project!

Bokeh is in Ohio right now! That's right, I have Bokeh. So, in the bizarre-ness that is me, the rest of this post is going to be from Bokeh's perspective.

So I arrived in Ohio on Saturday night. So far I've been to Florida, New Hampshire, and Maine. On Father's Day, the Nesser family took me to the Columbus Zoo. According to them, Jack Hanna loves this zoo, and it's kind of a big deal.

I got ready, and rode in the car with Olivia.


This is us at the entrance


The big deal right now is Polar Bears. I guess the Columbus Zoo just built a whole area just for Polar Bears. When we got to the polar bear entrance, I saw this sign


WHAT?! Are there polar bears just roaming around?!!? Well, we found these statues. Claire had taken over guiding me around, and her and I rode the smaller bear

Turns out there aren't polar bears just wandering around... but there is a glass wall where you can see polar bears swimming over you. Claire showed me the bears above us, but I was still a little freaked out that they might get me.








The Nesser girls are learning about taking turns, so Olivia guided me to the flamingoes.


Flamingoes are Heather's favorite part of the Zoo, because they're really close, and are always out. I could see why she likes them...


...until the ones behind me started fighting! They get really big, and bite at each other... I was ready to go


The aquarium is the girls' favorite part of the zoo. Personally, I liked the sea horses... just my size!


Claire's turn to guide again... she and I are buddies now.




It was a hot day, and I was ready to head home. The girls wanted to play on these warthog statues. I asked if I could just sit on the bench and watch. Luckily for me, the girls were fine with that.


Day one in Ohio has been a lot of fun!

everybody say AAAARRRRRRRG!!!

Olivia is FOUR! I still can't really believe it. And she pretty much overnight has become a big girl - she goes to her best friends house (our next door neighbors) pretty much daily, she's demanding her independance, and she wants to do everything herself. She also now flies off the handle at the smallest setting off, which is frustrating! What happened to my good natured girl??

Saturday was her pirate party with her cousin Niko. He turned six. There were about 10 kids at the party, and Olivia loved every second of it. It was definitely a humid mess out, and we were sprinkled on a couple times, but overall I thought the party was really great!

This was actually the second cake I had made... the first attempt was at an open treasure chest, and all was going well, but somewhere in the construction, there was disaster. I got so frustrated with the whole thing that Tim and I just ate what wasn't destroyed, and I made a new one after I got home from work.



Here's the pirate princess in all of her glory




The highlight of the party, for the kids at least, was the bubble machine. They just loved those dang bubbles!











I loved this one would be the kids' bands cd cover


Olivia technically didn't blow out any candles this year, because it was just too windy. She was confused by this.


And here's some more of present opening, and guests...




























Thanks to everyone who came out and made Olivia and Niko's party special!!