'Moose the Wanderer' has a new home!

Hey there! I am Moose. I was a lonely little teddy bear figure on a shop shelf in the middle of Tampere, Finland, before two young (and werid people) decided to 'BUY!' me and took me with them. Until now, I had a pretty uneventful life. I was made in Sweden in a factory, got given a piece of clothing with a Finnish flag on it, and was sealed up in a box for a few months, and after being transported across the water to the neighbour's to the east, I was evenutally put on a shelf with a price tag of €8! €8! Is that all I am worth?? Everyday young children, tourists, parents, and even local people would pick me up and look at me, then put me down. I look out of the shop window, seeing seasons pass and go, snow, wind, rain, bright sunshine, they would all come and go.

I was getting bored. I always wanted to know what life was like outside the shop. I would see other cuddly toys being picked up, and taken to the counter to get scanned and then put into a bag and taken away. What life must be like outside the shop I wondered?

One day, a young couple picked me up and took me straight to the counter straight away. The boy said that I would be great in his collection! Collection? What collection? Toy collection? Moose collection? Magnet collection? or for a litter of puppies so they can rip me up and throw me around the room. I was scared. The infa-red scan zapped me. I thought I was being shot, but it was a tickling senstation, and then I was shoved in a carrier bag like all the others, and taken away.

I wasn't the only moose cuddly toy they picked up. There was another one, plus a Moomin! A Moomin! The girl had picked this white fat furry thing saying she like watching them from when she was a younger child. Do Moomin's really excist? Do they roam around and eat people? I have a lot to learn. I was still wondering where the hell they were taken me, and what I was going to be a part off.

I was in the carrier bag for such a long time. I overheard a conversation that there names were Danik and Olga, and they were tourists (and a couple who recently got together), and they were heading home. I wonder where home was. I also found out that the collection was a collection of cuddly toys, all moose's! Danik was an elk fan.

That settled me down, but what is with the Moomin? Where was home? Was it in Finland? So many questions. Then they yanked me out of the bag with the other cuddly moose toy. I was in an airport! It was Tampere airport. I heard about these airports. They have these huge metal tubes with wings, and fly people all over the place. There were thousands of airports across the world we live in. So now I was worried. I only ever known Sweden (where these people shove black stuff into my head to make my eyes) and Finland (where I was a lost child in a sweet store) and now they were taking me on one of these metal tubes with wings. Am I still going to fly to another place in my native Finland. I already noticed that Danik and Olga weren't speaking Finnish, so I had a funny feeling I won't be in Finland for much longer.

What you doing? Flash! Flash! Danik and Olga were taking photos of us! My eyes! They burn! Then I got shoved back into the carrier bag. Why? I wanted to see my new surroundings! I noticed through a gap in the bag that there was a screen saying flight to Riga. Where was Riga? What was Riga? Was that a girl who worked in the clothes shop on Pirkalla street? I just had a funny feeling I was about to have some crazy times ahead, so it was time to get used to it.

Ryanair? Who is this? Wow! I see huge metal tube with wings. I am going up it in the dark. Wow, I am going into the sky! Ouch! Too much blue and yellow inside this metal tube. Not many people inside the metal tube. Staff wear werid blue clothes. Why is Olga shoving me against the window. Why? Its cold. Are we in the sky yet? Yes, we are, because now we getting up, I am shoved in the carrier bag again, and we are off the metal tube. That wasn't a long flight. Where are we? Where are we? I just see white! I am blind! I am blind! Nope, it's the carrier bag. Olga now speaking another funny language...... hmmmmmmm....