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Hamster Dancin' Around the World

 
 
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 06:16 am
Here's the cascade (and lake) in Grand Park ...

http://i18.tinypic.com/5z21wds.jpg

... with Penny, of course.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 06:23 am
Penny couldn't have done the walking in the park if she hadn't had a good breakfast at Café Mozart before ...


http://i16.tinypic.com/4osi5o4.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 06:25 am
.... and some ...

http://i14.tinypic.com/4tgij3a.jpg





... (pre-) birthday cake in between

http://i8.tinypic.com/6317sch.jpg
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dadpad
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 06:49 am
Great stuff Walter. That lil hamster is a cutie.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 06:51 am
Fabulous!

Sozlet likes 'em all but was especially intrigued by the big movie camera.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 07:56 am
In Little Italy ...

http://i11.tinypic.com/5zla6tf.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 08:19 am
And close to Washington Bridge, on late afternoon, before the big rain started

http://i14.tinypic.com/6ce4oqe.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 08:31 am
Afterwards, we were in Canada

http://i10.tinypic.com/6go829g.jpg






Okay, not really: that car just parked backed of us (when taking the previous photo) :wink:
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happycat
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 08:42 am
I'll do it....if she gets to the East Coast!
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 08:50 am
Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn - New York's answer to Paris: the soldiers' and sailors' Memorial Arch

http://i16.tinypic.com/62iyczb.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 09:11 am
A typical Park Slope block (in Brooklyn) ... and Penny:

http://i7.tinypic.com/689qu4w.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 09:13 am
Penny, nibbling the olives from Joe Nation's Martini (the first time, btw, for all of having drinks and dinner under a waterfall: it was heavily raining! :wink: )


http://i12.tinypic.com/4z0cbvd.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 09:35 am
I couldn't find a new friend for Penny in the Brooklyn Museum - this was wooden art ...

http://i18.tinypic.com/4t5v95u.jpg

... nor on the blck where we stayed - this was filled with air

http://i18.tinypic.com/66wta3a.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 09:51 am
Grand Central Station, really a landmark - we didn't get a train there, only looked at it :wink:


http://i15.tinypic.com/4ukzp8y.jpg

But Newark International Airport was where the last pics on my tour were taken (that's in America):

http://i16.tinypic.com/4mham4p.jpg http://i19.tinypic.com/6euu0iv.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 12:02 pm
The first view of Westphalian countrysite (see the wind turbines!) shortly before landing at Paderborn-Lippstadt



http://i9.tinypic.com/6g9e6c8.jpg

http://i10.tinypic.com/5yjhg6p.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 12:23 pm
We drove to my native town, visiting my mother, and passed some typical house of the rural part of this country (it's just 10 miles between here and there)

http://i13.tinypic.com/675smtf.jpg

http://i8.tinypic.com/4tzn2n5.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 12:24 pm
Well, there are some better views in my native town than our house ...

http://i8.tinypic.com/53sklec.jpg

Coming soon.
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Thomas
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 12:26 pm
I never knew Prussia looked so pretty!
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 12:42 pm
Well, we better don't listen to bavarian ignorants but join Penny as she looks at the ancient abbey church (which the former primary school from 1640 to the left and a statue of washing-woman on the lakeside

http://i18.tinypic.com/6cggzko.jpg


Now the local museum, the big timbered house on the right had been the archbishop of Cologne's (as Duke of Westphalia) court during 17th/18th century

http://i16.tinypic.com/61lccqo.jpg
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Sat 16 Jun, 2007 01:05 pm
Whoever gets Penny next should make sure that she gets some rest.

Walter's series of Penny photos should be made into a children's book. The photos are fabulous!
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