Bus Bingo Prize Mail!

 Hullo, we received some mail today!!

Except... um... uh-oh...

Um... Houston... we have a problem. A BIG problem!!

"Cocoa? Do you see what I see??"
Yes, I do Navy... yes I DO.""

Seriously Beanie Mouse... what were you thinking???

Now, now, let's not get our noses out of joint... it could be a simple innocent mistake?

Innocent mistake, my tail!!! 

Look at this!! Look at it!!!

Who is the SOLE addressee??? It is Sandy Bear! Not a mention of a Mouse!!

From our COUSIN no less! What are we?? Minced cheese curds? Hmph!!!!

"If that's the way Beanie wants to be... then FINE!!!"

Oh dear... Maybe it's just a sekrebeary typo (write-o) on the front...

Let's open it up and see...

But first let me get a pair of scissors to get into this Fort Knox of an envelope...

There's a lot of stuff in there! But I think I have it all!

Right, let's take a look...

It's a card... Resistance is ...utile... Eh?

I know my Star Trek: TNG and I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be "Futile"! Good image of a Borg by the way!

Oh, it's a lovely card and it is addressed to...

Moi...

And only moi... hmmmm....

There's a nice pin badge from The National Gallery...

And another one that adds a line to the Beatitudes... "Blessed are the cracked for they let the light in"...

That seems like a good addition!

And a post card of an astronomical clock at Hampton Court Palace - cool!

And a magnetic book mark! Those are much better than turning over a couple of page corners!

Oh, and a little corner note... hmmmm... it's supposed to missing an F... "Resistance is Utile"?? Apparently "utile" means "useful"... and it was used before "useful" came on the scene! Cool... That'll be a good one to keep in your backpocket for Scrabble... Somebody puts "tile" down and you can score big with that "u"!

Thanks Beanie Mouse!!!

"Yeah... Thannnnkkkkkssss for nothing Beanie Mouse!"

Ooops.. we have a peanut gallery!

Who you calling peanuts???? We are NOT peanuts, even if we are small... we may be be small but we are mighty!!  I think we should make up our VERY OWN bus bingo cards... so we can get our VERY OWN prizes. Hmph (x2).

Ummm... so yeah... Beanie... any thoughts??

A New Bus Bingo Card!!

 Hullo... we are working on our new Bus Bingo card... 

We have to come up with bus numbers and we are having a discussion about how best to do that...

We could just go... Bus 1 to Bus 25?

Or Bus 26 to Bus 51? Or we could do like... numbers ending in 6 in a row... or a column... etc...

Hmmm...  or... we could go with the most popular routes by ridership... although Beanie does not necessarily follow the crowd... We mulled and we mulled...

But finally we came up with a strategy!!!

But we are NOT sharing our strategy because then Beanie changes their travel patterns!!!!!

There... that's our first iteration... and then we checked for duplicates...

And consulted old Bus Bingo cards and made a few changes...

So here it is! Bus Bingo #8...

Bus Bingo!!! Another Winning Card!

 Hullo!!! You know Beanie Mouse and the Bus Bingo thingie?? Well... basically, you put London bus numbers on a Bingo sheet and everytime Beanie rides that bus, you mark it off!!

This is my fourth... correction... FIFTH Bus Bingo card!!! You need to get a horizontal line, a vertical line, a Diagonalley line, and all 4 corners...

And it happened!!!!

Some buses are more common than others and the 214 was holding me up but... it's done!

Now, that means I need to make a new Bus Bingo card!!

Thanks Beanie!!

Super Cool Mouse Mail!

 We received a beary interesting piece of mail the other week!

It's from England! But it's strange because...

It's from Beanie Mouse but... Beanie usually uses much fancier envelopes!

Beanie is NOT a plain-brown envelope type of mouse!

And... the stamps are of cats!! A mouse using cat stamps??? Strange... mind you... maybe he's trying to curry favour with Minnie!

Anyhow, let's open this up shall we!

EEEEE!!! It's the latest bus zine!!! (Well... the latest as of a few weeks ago... Beanie's been busy producing more!!). This one is the C1 bus route!!! Beanie rides this all the time in London and...

We are prepping for our next trip to London (whenever that might be)... cause we are normally Tube takers... cause the buses are soooo confusing in London! But... these bus zines might convince us otherwise...

This one starts near Shepherd's bush... near the ITV Studio (that's probably something we should know about... but we don't!).

And then it heads east and nicks the corner of Holland Park... ooohhhh... that's interesting! And then it goes down past Earls Court!

Then dekes up to South Kensington (deke is a real word in Canada - it's an ice hockey word...)... and goes past the Natural History Museum and the V&A...

Passes by Harrod's (or Horrids) and then dekes south again to go towards Sloane Square...

Before ending up at the Victoria Train Station... oooohhh... this is all beary interesting!!!

And there's a couple of art deco buildings there too... cool!

We visit a LOT of those spots when we're in London... so this is a beary handy bus route to know!

But... the bus zine is missing some key locations... like the nearest Starbucks!!!

What?!! I'm a bearista bear... and I LOVE their chocolate brownies and hot chocolate... and free wifi... a blogger lives on free wifi you know! Especially when they are travelling...

Anyhow... the other thing we love about these zines is that we can write in various things that we like...

Like the Starbucks in South Kensington....

And a little detour down to the art deco Michelin building...

And Royal Albert Hall and the Brompton Oratory (that is one GLOOMY church!).

We marked up the other pages too... cause that's what these zines are for!!! We already ordered the next ones too... but we are going to order them in batches cause it's the same price to ship 3 as to ship one!

 Thanks Beanie!!! Oh... and if you're interested... here's Beanie's Etsy shop