My Time With Heidi and Jack

Hello, everyone!  I wanted to share with you a little more news about my travels. I was in Baton Rouge. Don't worry, I was gone before hurricane Isaac came through! Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana. LSU (Louisiana State University) is the big college down there. They are the LSU Tigers. There is a real live tiger - Mike the Tiger. Mike is the mascot. It was very hot the day we went to see him, so he was inside his shelter instead of outside in his beautiful habitat... I didn't get a chance to see him.

Louisiana is known for it's good food and for Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is a huge party. It means "Fat Tuesday" in French. It is a gigantic party  each year in New Orleans and other cities in Louisiana. I had a really fun time. This picture is taken in front of the LSU football stadium. The stadium can hold over 100 thousand people! 

This was a picture taken of me with a bronze statue of LSU's mascot-Mike the Tiger. You can see his beautiful home/habitat in the background. It was too hot for him to be outside- even in his pond. I couldn't get a picture with him, but I did find his statue. Heidi and Jack, who go to Woodcrest, are in this photo with their cousin, Allie, who lives in Baton Rouge.

Heidi and Jack's mom is a flight attendant and she is taking me to New York! I will be in touch soon!

Oh...when you see Heidi and Jack at school, thank them for taking great care of me.

My Summer Adventure

Boys and girls I spent the summer with our classmate Mikey in his new home in Rhode Island.  I had a great time!  I heard we have new friends in our classroom. I look forward to meeting you. I hope you will enjoy learning about all the places I will visit.

During my time with Mikey and his family, friends from our school came to visit.  Their names are Jack and Heidi.  They took me on their travels to visit their grandparents.  Take a look at the pictures and see all the things I got to see.

Here I am with Mikey and his brothers and sister.

My traveling really started picking up when I went with Jack and Heidi! I had a fabulous time in Lexington, Kentucky. The beautiful building you see behind me is actually a horse barn! They really love horses here - especially race horses!

Ok, so here is a picture of me on a nice piece of art. This horse was made from wood and metal. Kentucky is known for producing the fastest horses in the world.  Some people think that because of all the limestone the Kentucky Blue Grass is mineral rich with Limestone and that contributes to healthy horses. The grass isn't actually blue, but the horses love to munch on it.

Hey, everyone! I went to Keenland Race Track in Lexington, Kentucky. Looks like I found a statue of a jockey!

I am with Mikey!

Boys and Girls I have made it all the way back across the country again to New Hampshire.  It was a long drive, but Mrs. Z. was great company and the views from the back seat were amazing!  It sure is pretty here!  
Mikey was very excited to see me.  He gave me a giant hug. Mikey misses all of you very much. Today was Mikey's first day at his new school. I can't wait to hear all about it.  This weekend I will be travelling to see Boston, Massachusetts.  I will send some pictures soon.

I Can't Believe I am on the Road Again!

Boys and girls it was so great to see you on Monday!  My travels the last 6 months were fantastic, but I really did want to see more of our country.  I am glad that you wanted to send me off again.  I am loving this road trip with Mrs. Z.  all the way to Massachusetts.   I can't wait to see our fellow classmate, Mikey.  I know that all of you have missed him since he moved.  He is going to be so surprised to see me!  His mom is taking good care of me and she is taking my picture along the way.  She says we will get there in just 4 days.  Can you believe it?  I can't wait to see where I am going!

Day One: Froggy left Riverside and travelled all the way to Grand Junction Colorado. He went through California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. This picture is of Froggy on the awesome rocks in Utah.

Day 2: Froggy went 750 miles today. From Colorado to Iowa passing all the way through Nebraska. Colorado is really cold. Froggy saw snow today.

I have been in Greeley, Colorado!

Hi Boys and Girls.  I have been busy!  I made a new friend and he wants to tell you about where I have been. 

Froggy has made his way to Greeley, Colorado which is very far up north in Colorado. Greeley was a town that was started to originally be an agricultural town. But it slowly grew away from that as more and more people moved to live here. Greeley is famous for how smelly it is because of how many cows are around! The weather here can change a lot! It has snowed on random occasions starting all the way back in October to now in April! It has also had some rain storms and a good amount of sunny beautiful days. Froggy has spent all of his time in Greeley at the University of Northern Colorado hanging out with Evan Schmalz and Joshua Moran, two Theatre Education students who aspire to be teachers one day! Froggy can be seen in the pictures with the UNC Bear Statue out front of the University Center. He can also been seen hanging out with the Wiebking Residence Hall duck. Wiebking Hall is a residence building dedicated to Performing and Visual Arts majors, who are arguably the most fun students all around campus! So Froggy was sure to have had a fun and safe time. The picture with Froggy in a tree (he is hard to make out in the picture, but he is right about in the center of the tree) is him hanging out of Presidents Row which is a residence hall that was actually where former presidents have stayed on vacations. The tree that Froggy is in is the oldest tree in all of Greeley Colorado (I don't know the age).

I have had a great time.  I am now on my way home to check in with all of you in Riverside, California.

Hi From the University of Evansville!

Hi everyone.  I have been with a very busy student by the name of Conner Donnelly at a school called The University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. Conner says it's not that exciting, but it is a really good school.  Conner and I are sending some pictures of my visit.

The first picture is of me with some new friends I met.  I am on a fundraising table that one organization at the school does each year. They allow people to rent a puppy from the shelter for $5 per ten minutes. All of the money goes to cancer research and it allows people to fall in love with and adopt dogs that have not been treated the best in the past. Conner and I played with a dog named Rigby, who is a black lab and very playful. I really liked him! I wanted to take him home to you guys! The last picture is of Rigby, Conner, and myself.  Isn't he cute?

In the second picture I am at the Memorial Fountain in the school. The fountain spews water from 32 spokes and takes the form of a basketball. This is to commemorate 32 Evansville basketball players who died in a plane crash on the way to a huge game in the seventies. Their names are all listed on the tablets on the side. So, I learned a lot of history! 

The third picture is of me on the sign that says the name of the school. Behind me is the oldest building on the school campus, Olmstead Hall. It was built in 1919! Also, you can see how green and beautiful the midwest is during the spring time. I sure had a lot of fun in the fields!

The fourth picture is of one of the school's tour guides, Grant, giving high school students getting ready to go to college a tour of the school. I liked it so much that I got a tour and I am considering going here for college within the coming years! From first grade to college! Haha.

I can't wait to see where I am going next!

My Visit to Chicago...

Hi, everybody! My pals in Chicago and I ended up going to the main entrance of the Sears (Willis) Tower, which is the tallest building in the country! The next picture is a bit dark, but we're right across the street from the legendary Chicago Theatre! It was built all the way back in 1921. And the last place we stopped was "The Bean" in Millennium Park, which is steps away from Lake Michigan. That's actually our reflection, and the buildings you see are really behind us. It sure was a fun time in Chicago. I was sure to say thanks to the cool kids I met, and now they're sending me on my way. I can't wait to see where I end up next!

-Froggy

This is a very big building!

I'm there in the middle.  I loved the bright lights.

These college boys were fun to visit!

I Made it to Chicago!

Hi, there! I made it all the way to Chicago, Illinois! They call it the Windy City, and I must say, it's been pretty windy! I met some really nice people here who want to take me out to see the city for a day! We haven't really gotten around to it yet, though, because they have been busy here with something called Mid-Term Exams! Turns out, I'm at a real college campus! DePaul University, right in the middle of Chicago! It sure is a great place so far. A bit chilly, though! I'm looking to visit "The Bean" in Millennium Park, which is a really big mirror in the shape of, well, a bean! My pals also said we'd go to Buckingham Fountain, and Sears Tower! They renamed it the Willis Tower, but nobody ever calls it that. I want to see Lake Michigan, too! I hope they'll let me. Well, I gotta go! Pictures are coming soon! See you!

-Froggy and Chicago Friends

An update from Las Vegas...

Froggy here again! I miss everyone back in class but since returning from Disneyland I've been a busy frog. I spent New Years in Las Vegas and got to watch the fireworks from a roof. I was going to head down to the famous Las Vegas Strip for New Years but I got too claustrophobic and there weren't enough flies to eat. While here I spent some time learning about Las Vegas and learned that it's almost 107 years old! I got a chance to go pose for some photos with the Welcome To Las Vegas sign in the background like any good tourist and discovered that the sign was built in 1959 by a woman named Betty Willis. Before leaving I was offered a chance to go to the top of the Stratosphere (the tallest building west of the Mississippi River!) but I decided not to. I've included some scenic photos of both the Strip and the Stratosphere. I'm heading off to Chicago in just a few days so I'll check in soon!

Las Vegas has so many bright lights.

This is a very tall building!

Here I am in the city that never sleeps with my new friends.