OT: GeoBear Info -- Important

Bon voyage GeoBear. Travel safe. : ) Taria

He's going to get held up in the Christmas post if he doesn't go soon! Fingers are crossed that he gets round safely. It'll be lovely to see him. :) We'll try to take him somewhere like Dover Castle, Canterbury Cathedral, or some other known landmark as well as here at home! :)

Hi Tia,

I can't wait for him to arrive - I am so looking forward to meeting him.

Safe journey Geobear.

And now from Miss Manners. I do hope you will provide the teacher a list of addresses so she can teach her students how to write thank you notes. For sure, no one participating in their project expects a Nobel Peace prize but it is quite an opportunity for the class to at least acknowledge the generosity of those giving their time and not a little money to Geobear's travels. I hope to not sound snarly but when the Flat somebodies came through the Swamp, I never even knew if he made it safely to the next person. Learning to say 'thank you' is, methinks, as important as watching a bear's travels. Polly

Kate XXXXXX wrote:

Kate -- I just realized that I DO NOT have your snail mail addy!!! HMM -- I also just realized that you are in the directory :-) -- got your addy on the list now. For everyone -- I had said that I would send GB to Annette in NZ. I have since remembered that Di in OZ is going to try and take him to the local school and that has to be done before they close for the holiday in mid-December! So -- I will be sending GB to Di and she can send him to Annette and she can send him to Joyce in Rep of SoAfrica. Then, the most "efficient" route would be for him to go to Israel (assuming we get Mirjam's snail mail) then Claudia in Spain, Kate in the UK, Bruce in the Orkney Islands, Roberta in Germany, Lena (the cousin) in Sweden, Meg in Uruguay, Sheena in Nova Scotia, Dawne in Saskatchewan, Cheryl in NH, Susan in MD, Lucille in FL, Gillian in FL, Gen in OH, Olwyn Mary in LA, and finally my DSis Betsy in TX. FYI, Meg in Uruguay has a special USA mail address. She says it only takes a few days for her to get her mail and for return mail to get back to the States. I'm going to leave it up to everyone this side of the pond to determine where GB should go next. If the time is getting close to his requested return arrival date of early May, then some of the volunteer hosts will have to be left out. Everyone has been so generous to offer to host GB that I would *really* like all of you to be involved. Thanks again & I will post when I have gotten him in the mail to Di in OZ. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

I need to remind everyone that Raechel's GeoBear isn't the only one being sent out into the big wide world. I'm not sure how many kids are sending out GeoBear's. The best I can do, as far as thank yous are concerned, is to make sure that the SMDGD is involved in thanking all of those involved. In this day & age, the thank yous will probably be electronic unless R decides she is up to actually writing some out by hand. She is only in First Grade and her writing skills are not all that good just yet :-). You're not sounding snarly, Polly and learning to say thank you IS important. But, I am the one who is responsible for asking RCTN & RCTQ people for help so it is mostly up to me to thank those involved. Also, I didn't force anyone to offer to host GB and I'm not such a "big name" here that those who volunteered would get any sort of thrill by being involved in a project of *mine*. That being said, R would be absolutely thrilled if I helped her to send a proper thank you electronically to both newsgroups AND personally to those involved -- assuming I can get her 6 year old body to sit still for that long :-)! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

Oh, I am getting so excited.

Giggle! Panic over! :D

I thought about that and if I have time, I will try to get them all listed and included with the snail mail addies. Basically, I had thought we could just use both newsgroups (RCTN & RCTQ) to post updates or request an e-mail from someone specific. If it's easier for hosts to e-mail me, then I can make sure any updates are posted to both groups. Seems that a lot of folks who are not hosting are reading the GeoBear threads and would like to hear about his travels, too :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

GeoBear is due back to Lizard Land in early May. Raechel's b-day is May 10 and we will be out there at that time. I had already decided that she and I would sit down and post a thank you to both groups at that time. Unfortunately, we will have to do this using Google -- not fun but do-able. Now let's just say a bitty prayer that GB has enough time to travel to all the different countries and hosts and then back home on time!!

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at