Maidei goes on a world tour-Part 1 of the Bicycle Mystery Tour

[shootingstar]

That bike button is like a protective shield that she wears proudly!

Great stuff Hoosier. So who is the person having her for Christmas? Lucky Maidei. And New Year's.

[jelee1311]

Great pics, she one lucky poppet!

[Catrin]

Her last hostess crocheted her a little scarf so that she can survive these cold temps!

I do have her, but between the weather and my work schedule it will be a couple of days before I can take her out on a tour. I DO have a picture of her looking sadly out of the patio door with her bike beside her as the 30 mph winds whipped the falling snow around, I will post it later.

This Friday or Saturday I will take her out and about and let her see the cool parts of Indianapolis - it would be nice of some of that can be on my bike but we will have to see about that. She is looking forward to getting out and about, regardless how we do it.

Who would like her next? I could send her in the mail next Monday, assuming that her next hostess isn't close enough for us to do the hand-over in person. She could also spend Christmas with me if we don't want to subject her to the madness of the US Post Office until after 12/25...

[Bike Chick]

If no one else in Indiana is wanting her to visit, please send her to me in Illinois. We are visiting my son in northern Illinois over the new year, I could take her on a tour of Illinois from one end to the other! Catrin, we could do the handover in person if each of us were willing to drive a couple of hours.

[Catrin]

If no one else in Indiana is wanting her to visit, please send her to me in Illinois. We are visiting my son in northern Illinois over the new year, I could take her on a tour of Illinois from one end to the other! Catrin, we could do the handover in person if each of us were willing to drive a couple of hours.

Cool! I will PM you this weekend after I finally get a chance to take her out and we can decided when/where/how. I am open to the idea of a personal handover depending on what the weather does and how our schedules work out.

[Bike Chick]

Sounds like a plan. It may be easier to use the mail but it wouldn't be near as much fun! I'll wait to hear from you.

[Catrin]

I am going to take Maidei out and about some more tomorrow, but here is how she has been spending some of her time recently. I tried to post the images inline with the text but it wasn't working, so they are in order with the text.

We both wanted to go out riding, but the day she arrived we had lots of blowing snow and howling winds, you can see how she is pining to go riding! Note the scarf that her previous host made for her, so she is nice and toasty warm.

Ok, so the snow came, and the cold came, and came, and stayed and... ok, time to do something inside. I had the chance to see Wicked locally, and Maidei was quite excited to see the musical! Here we are checking out a some items for sale. I think we surprised the salesman but he took it in good spirit.

Maidiei wanted to get a closer look at the Christmas tree in the lobby of the theater so we let her - I think she was cold and the lights helped her to get warm. It was chilly in that huge lobby! You can see how excited she is by the time we reached our seats! The musical was fantastic and we all enjoyed it a great deal.

After all that fun last night we really wanted to get some exercise today, but yet more snow and it is just too cold for riding so here is Maidei checking out one of the spinning bikes at my club.

What will come tomorrow? I don't know, but will try and get pictures. A play bill from Wicked is now in her traveling box so she will have something to remember a wonderful evening.

[kmehrzad]

Nice pics, Catrin. Maidei is enjoying her travels, so it seems.

[Bike Chick]

Catrin, you have made lemonade from lemons! You have waited so long to get Maidei and now that you finally have her, the weather is too nasty to take her for a ride. It looks like she's enjoying her trip to Indy just fine!

[roguedog]

Hey all,

What does Madei do for a livin' cuz I want her job. she must be independently wealthy and have a mucho charismatic personality to have so many friends worldwide who take such good care of her during her visits

I'm jealous

[kmehrzad]

I think she's a professional traveler and Goodwill Ambassador.

[shootingstar]

Great photos, Catrin! She's being well looked after at every stage. The holidays seem cosy for her.

She's certainly a non-complaining traveller --never says a peep wherever she ends up.

[Possegal]

I love the picture of her in the tree. The scarf looks like angel wings.

[jelee1311]

I think she's a student of the world and sooo very lucky! Great pics Catrin, is she staying with you for Christmas?I know its a busy time of year so thanks for keeping us updated .

[Catrin]

I think she's a student of the world and sooo very lucky! Great pics Catrin, is she staying with you for Christmas?I know its a busy time of year so thanks for keeping us updated .

It looks like she will spend Christmas with me, and Bike Chick and I are trying to arrange a personal hand-over, depending on the weather.