29.9.2017 by Mervi
On a September morning the mail bear brought a nice blue envelope to the polar bears’ enclosure in Ranua and, of course, Sisu was very curious to know what was in it. He was jumping and pulling his mama’s tail and asking her to open the envelope.
Sisu: Mama, open it, open it! What is it? What is it?
Venus: Dear boy, calm down ….. Oh bear, this is from Auntie Giovanna and Quintana. They invite us to visit them in Munich!
Sisu: I start packing right away …. We have so much to do …. Mama, please answer them immediately and tell that we accept the invitation with the greatest pleasure!
Venus: As a matter of fact I’m very glad about this invitation. Hmm, I must visit a fur dresser and I have to have a pawicure and …. and ….. I must be presentable when I travel abroad!
Sisu: Luckily I always look good so I can take care of some other arrangements.
Sisu began to arrange the trip faster than a lightning. First he must arrange the drive to Rovaniemi Airport.
Sisu: Mr Reindeer, could you and some of your friends take us to Rovaniemi? I know there’s no snow but I’m sure you can manage vehicles with wheels? I don’t like cars so I would prefer a reindeer ride.
Reindeer: My dear Sisu, of course we will help you and your mother. Who needs horse power when there’s reindeer power, hehehee ….
The reindeers took our bears to the Airport where Lufthansa’s special Polar Bear Express was waiting for them. Uncle Sergej has lended his helping paw to Sisu because he’s still a little polar bear boy and booking an airplane is a task for an experienced bear of the world!
Sisu: Mama, are you quite sure we have everything with us? We can’t come to Munich empty pawed!!
Venus: Dear boy, we have our suitcases here and our gifts are already in the plane.
The flight went well and a bearsine (a limousine designed especially for big bears) took our travellers to Hellabrunn where Giovanna and Quintana gave them a very warm welcome.
Giovanna: It’s so nice to have you here again. You must be tired after the long journey so why don’t you just rest while I’ll fix something to eat for us. You can watch the visitors at the same time. Isn’t it great that we can watch them free of charge. They have to pay to watch us!!
After a good dinner Sisu and Quintana started playing together and the two polar bear ladies had a chance to have a chat.
Venus: We have so much in common. Our kids were born on the same day and we both have lost our male companions.
Giovanna: Even though our male friends didn’t help us raising our cubs they were close and we could communicate with them.
Venus: You’re right, they didn’t help us but they were not in the way either …..
Both ladies smiled a little although they also had tears in their eyes.
Giovanna: Oh bear, I remember what great fun Manasse and Yoghi used to have in the Oktoberfest.
Venus: I remember it, too. Now they’ll be having an Oktoberfest in the Bear Heaven …. I asked my friend Mervi to make a picture of our dear friends so she made two – one for each of us.
Giovanna: Thank you so much! I will have it on the wall in our den.
While the ladies were chatting Sisu gave his gifts to Quintana. Sisu’s big brother Ranzo had instructed him to express some compliments of Quintanas good looks, too ….
Sisu: Dear Quintana, may I say you look smashingly beautiful! You have such lovely fur, velvet eyes and a cute licorice nose.
Quintana: Thank you, my friend! You don’t look so bad yourself!
Sisu: I brought you gifts, too! I hope you’ll have lots of fun with this big ball. Naturally, I even brought you a king size jar with cloudberry jam. It’s very yammy!
Quintana: Oh, you didn’t have to bring me anything! I’m glad to have you here. We had such a good time together when I visited Ranua.
After a while Giovanna suggested a sight seeing in the humans’ sanctuary called München. They could also make a shopping tour at the Maximilan Strasse. There are boutiques like Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Prada and all the famous fashion houses. However, our ladies were not impressed!
Giovanna: I really don’t understand why this street is said to be so fantastic for shopping! I haven’t seen a decent fish or meat shop so far!!
Venus: I guess these boutiques are popular among the two legged creatures. What luck we have our wonderful furs so we don’t have to be on a never ending diet in order to get into those clothes that seem to be made for dwarfs!
Giovanna: I’ve heard the human ladies shave their legs and the males shave their beards! Can you imagine!! They even shave other parts of their body, hehehee ….. Oh bear, these humans are so funny!
Sisu and Quintana were getting rather bored so the mothers ordered a bearsine to the Viktualienmarkt.
Sisu: Mama, what a big market this is! Much bigger than our Cloudberry Market!
Venus: München is a very big human sanctuary so everything’s bigger here ….
Suddenly Sisu caught sight of something very interesting!
Sisu: Quintana, you must take a photo of me in front of the House of Honey! Otherwise Malla and Jemma won’t believe me when I tell them about it. Malla and Jemma are brown bears that live next to our enclosure and believe me – they are two real honey paws! 🙂
Of course, our growing cubbies got hungry and went looking for something eatable.
Sisu: They’re all selling ‘hots for dogs’ but I don’t want to eat dogs’ food!!
Quintana: There must be something for us, too! Beareka! I know – the Weisswursts must be ‘hots for polar bears’. Let’s try them!
Both the mothers and the kids were rather tired after a long day so back in Hellabrunn they made themselves comfortable in the dens and had sweet dreams until next morning.
It was time for Venus and Sisu fly back to Finland but before they left they invited Giovanna and Quintana to Ranua.
Venus: Dear Giovanna, thank you so much for your hospitality! I hope to see you and your daughter in Ranua soon. Maybe around the first Advent. Then we will probably have snow, too – and with some luck you can admire the northern lights as well!
Giovanna: Dear Venus, it was so nice to meet you and Sisu again. Quintana and I accept the invitation and we’re already looking forward to visiting the snowy landscape.
Sisu and Quintana were a bit sad because the visit was so short but they promised to be in touch every day in the Bearbook and, of course, they would even call each other.
Before it was time to say goodbye for this time the young bears exchanged photos of themselves.
This is how Quintana wants Sisu to remember her ….
…. and Sisu thought he looks very presentable in this picture.
It was nice to have a report of this visit. I’m looking forward to the next meeting. I hope you are, too! 🙂
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