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These are Anika's Musings for the first 5 months of our trip:

November 11, 2007

More pigeons have been added to the pigeon page.

November 9, 2007

Horton, Ozzie and their new friend Fred, in a tree in our little riad in Marakech. And here they are again, in the big riad:

Anika's new friend, Kleinie.

October 30, 2007

I had the best b-day you can have when your 1000 miles from anyone you know

(My family does not count, I know them from head to toe)

Anika's Birthday Montage, prepared by her mother!

Anika is up early, ready for her scavenger hunt!

Tasha and Anika translate an obscure clue. Anika employs the Individual Kinetic Encoding Apparatus (IKEA, for short)

The two hunters assemble the final puzzle, and Anika scores lots of loot. (Oh the packing nightmare...)

On the cake front, we had some trouble. No good candles! (oops) The first attempt, matches, strikes out. The large candle is unsatisfactory. Bummer.

So the next day we fixed our blunder, and Anika got to eat the candles, too!

October 22, 2007 somewhere in southern France:

Anika in travel mode.

October 9, 2007

Ozzie and Horton at the Vatican

September 29 - Hamburg

September 9

For a Painting in a Store in Prague

by Anika

A sailboat going to high sea,

Away from land and misery.

Heading to more blue and blue,

in a shining boat all new.

The farther you look, the darker it is.

The water is wave less, it has no fizz

Waiting for an adventure to come,

and hoping a storm won't finish them.

It's only a picture, but that's okay,

because now I want to sail away.

August 10

Clicked clack, Clickity clack down, down, down the track.

A cog wheel track in Gridelwald

August 8

More poetry:

Good Night

A good night is when you dream.

A good night is more that it may seem.

A good night has no nightmare,

Because a nightmare really isn’t fair.

A good night must be to your liking:

Girls a Barbie, boys a Viking.

A friend had to tell this to me.

I never had a good night, you see.

Waltz

Dancing is my pet

Let’s waltz to the tune all night.

Let’s waltz to the tune, lovely sight.

Now the waltz tune is slowing

It is home we’ll be going,

But this one has a nice beat

Come, come we’ll leave our seat

and waltz to the minuet!

Tree

I am swaying in the wind,

Like a lot of graceful dancers jumping.

Happy 'til I hear the thumping.

Of course it's an ax.

I'm falling at last.

I'm not old enough,

Just 100 and some stuff.

I can't believe what I'm hearing:

It's screaming and some cheering.

I can't believe I fell.

I'm a living thing as well.

A Good Book

A good book brings you somewhere cool.

A pretty mountain, a lovely pool.

If the book does not drag you away.

Then you’re better off going outside to play

A good book brings you somewhere new

Let’s go grab a good book, too

The Fly Swatter

Run, run it’s the fly swatter!

Run , run my son, my daughter!

Run run into the pot.

Ha, ha, false alarm. SWAT

July 20

limerick

around the world we go

we're Americans so we'll hang low

through rain or shine

I said that is fine

I hope that doesn't include snow

limwreck as in it does not rhyme

it's raining it's pouring

the old man is snoring (if it's loud you can say my dad is snoring)

Went to bed

bumped his head

And couldn't get up in the morning

it's a weak rhyme

July 11

The Lying Lion, by Anika

There's a lion lyin' in the sun lyin'.

He said he was as big as a house

He said his claws were as big as a mouse

He said his teeth were as sharp as knives

He said he had eleven giraffe wives

He said he could fly to the moon

He said he would have a baby soon

Oh, he said this, he said that

He said he was thin but he's really fat

Finally I left that lyin' lion lyin' there.

July 8 -

Pigeon pictures posted - see pigeons

July 2 -

A poem about our first day in Helsinki:

Linnemäki, by Anika

We went to an amusement park galore.

We brought a water bottle and no more.

The roller coaster rides were really fun,

But we left, so now we're done.

My mom said she got the dry seat on the water ride,

But it turned out she actually lied.

On that ride we were hit by a waterfall!

That's the water ride, but it's not all.

We went on the Ferris wheel up to the sky;

That's what's my mom thought, we weren't that high!

Wanted to go on freefall, that was my endeavor,

I couldn't do it, but it was the best day ever!!!

June 25 - On the train from Moscow to St. Petersburg

A Couplet style Poem by Anika

Good Knight

A good knight always likes his stead

Fights with great courage and speed

A good knight still has pity inside

Knows when to keep secret and when to confide

A good knight works for a king and his wife

Will listen to them and yield his life

A good knight is never a bore

Too bad they aren't alive any more.

The train had lots of space until you put

the suitcases in. (which takes up a quarter)

if you want excitement check out the cabs :-)

June 19 - Ponsticil, Wales

A Minor Poem by Anika

Johnny, why's there snoring coming from that heap?

I'm not tired, just my foot fell asleep!

June 15 - Watching 3-D Dinosaurs at the Science Museum

You'd think I was going to Mercury with those glasses. :)

A hint to anyone climbing big hills: make sure they are not sheep-infested, because they leave stuff behind, which sticks to ones shoes, which transfers the stuff to the floor of ones Bed and Breakfast.

June 15 - London - Hyde Park

Swans, by Anika

June 12 - London -

"London is just like Chicago, everyone is always in a hurry! "

June 11 - London -

I woke up with this poem in my head, thanks partially to Beatrice!

Pins and Ants by Anika

Invisible pins, not the safety kind,

Will rob your body; rule your mind.

They will slowly drive you mad
Take away all you had

Little ants crawling around

On you - not on the ground

Don't get these guys, please

Bye!

('Cause you don't want me to talk about fleas!)

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