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Source: (consider it) Thread: AS: The adventures of Sven the Moose
Lev
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Hi Wood,

About a year ago or so I was about 7th in the list to have "his mooseness" in Manchester... now I know he's had an atlantic detour, but any chance of him coming to Manchester this Summer? I have plans for the poor little thing! ::evil grin::

Love, pixies, and mooses!

....Lev


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Wood
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You never know.

You know, this is possibly the oldest thread still currently running...

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babybear
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And it is basically a continuation of a thread that was on the old boards.

bb


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Nicolemr
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sven is no en route to his next destination. the post office tells me he should arrive in 2-3 days.

there will be more pictures soon, too.

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Nicolemr
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ooops, that should have been "now" en route, not "no" on route!

however, what i really wanted to say was there is now one more picture at my sven album. once again, click on "friends" the "svens trip", and the second picture on the second page is sven enjoying my daughters basketball practice last week.

tomorrow i will probably have the last ones ready.

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Nicolemr
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ok, now it can be revealed... the reason why i had sven for so long was.... he refused to leave until he'd seen the statue of liberty. do you know how hard it is to stuff a moose into a shipping box if he doesn't want to go? so on sunday after church, we went to the statue of liberty.

once again, pictures are at this site, click friends then svens visit. the new ones are all on the second page, they start with the third picture.

we took the long island railroad from bayside where my church is rather than the bus for the sake of speed. you can see two pictures of sven looking out the train window. the second one shows a bit of flushing. the train took us to penn station, and we took the subway form there. sadly the pic of sven on the subway didn't come out for some reason. from battery park you take a ferry to liberty island.

a few words here about our current situation and the statue of liberty. liberty island is off the downtown end of manhatten. up until 9/11 the twin towers loomed over battery park, and were the major part of the skyline there. now there is far to much open sky, and more tourists taking pictures of what isn't there then of what still is. since 9/11 the statue has been closed to visitors. liberty island itself was reopened only recently, and boarding the ferry has the same security as an airplane now... bags must be x-rayed, people must go through metal detectors. a handful of change in my daughter's pocket set off the metal detector and she was wanded. it was a very strange sensation to go through all this.

but eventually we got on the ferry (picture 5 on the page), and got underway. the statue of liberty is a very potent symbol of both my country and my city to me, and i'm not ashamed to admit there were tears on my face as we approached the island. we walked around the statue (picture 6) and sven was very impressed (picture 7). we took time to read the historical material, and sven was particularly impressed byt the one relating to the symbols of liberty, especially the emma lazerus poem, the new colossus, (the one with "give me your poor...." etc). (pictures 8 and 9)

at that point once again the vampires struck the batteries in my camera, so alas i do not have pictures of the rest of the day. after the statue of liberty we returned to battery park and walked around for awhile, looking at the momuments there. sven was impressed by a man feeding the pigeons and squirrels, and was unhappy that we couldn't find the norwegian maritime monument, whatever that is... it was on the map, but not in the park.

after battery park, we found the financial district bull statue, and sven was impressed (its a several times larger than life statue of a charging bull... as in "a bull market")

our last stop of the day was grand central station, and the site thats being called "new york's wailing wall", the 9/11 memorial site established by the mta (mass transit authority).

and that was it for svens trip, except that on monday he went to school with my daughter and had a few words to the class at show and tell time. the teacher was quite impressed!

sven was packed up in the same box he arrived in, which is starting to be a bit small now, along with all his souvenirs, including his new york ones, and departed around 4:00 pm tuesday.

i already miss the little dear....

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Wood
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Thanks Nicole. They're all excellent. They are.

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Wood
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While we're waiting for Sven to make his way back over the Atlantic ocean, here's - finally - some pictures of Sven's time with Sara Strand in Woodstock, CT.

Sven's day at the cleaners #1

Sven's day at the cleaners #2

Sven gets excited about the superbowl

Sven gets a bit lost on superbowl day

Sven hangs out with some relatives

On top of the world

getting ready to move on

Sven plays the blues

Sven on a boat

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Wood
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Sven the moose is now on his way across the Atlantic, back to Wales, after over a year abroad.

When he arrives, he'll spend a few days at ours, and then continue his journey, this time around Britain.

Would those people who still want a visit from Sven the Moose in the UK post here?

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starbelly
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Yes please!

Neil


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Erin
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So Wood, are you going to send him with what I can only describe as the most impressive collection of crap that I have ever seen?

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Wood-
Could you post an inventory (or maybe photos) of what Sven brought back with him?

Sieg


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Well I'm not in the UK, but I had requested a moose toss at the Bruges shipmeet (which I never got to) or maybe the tulip season. The tulip season might still be possible, only I'm not sure if that would be spring '03 or '04 now. I don't suppose he'll be anywhere near North Wales in the next month and a half? I might at least be able to meet him then, even if he doesn't come and visit.

Cuttle.


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babybear
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No world trip would be complete without a trip to Denbigh.

I am sad however that Sven didn't manage to go back to visit tomb and get taken to visit the pope.

Is Sven going Ozzie at any point?

bb


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kingsfold

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Well, I'm not sure that Herts. is the centre of the universe or anything, but Sven is very welcome here if he still wishes to visit. If he times it right, he may get a boat trip out of it..

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Carys

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I'm still up for a visit from the little one - even if I'm no longer in Aber - nor even Dudley - but in Cambridge!

Carys

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I'll have to bow out I'm afraid.

I'll probably be of No Fixed Abode at some point over next few weeks/months. And of No Bloody Job. Plus, I don't have a scanner.

Sorry Sven. You'll have to seek your thrills elsewhere.

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Wood
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quote:
Originally posted by Erin:
So Wood, are you going to send him with what I can only describe as the most impressive collection of crap that I have ever seen?

I still haven't seen it... but I suspect that to save on the postage, I'll be justs sending on the Antlered One...

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clare
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he's still very welcome in sheffield!

clare

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Inanna

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If Sven wants to come to Nottingham, I'd love to show him around, and introduce him to the Robin Hood statue, etc etc.

Kirsti

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Still haven't got our cat - so Sven welcome to come to us!

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Wood
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OK.

This, if I am not mistaken, is possibly the chronologically longest thread to have hit the board so far.

But all things must come to an end. Now that Sven's back, shall we start a new one (and, of course, archive this one, hosts, please, pretty please )?

I think so...

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Ariel
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I think you will have to cross me off the list too. Life is on a day to day basis at present. I can't make any plans for the future.
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