Bart Bear's Blog

Yesterday was a special day. It was the day of the Teddy Bears' Picnic, and guess what....... I was a co-host. That means that I was the secialistest bear there. The theme of the Picnic was Aliens, Astrobears and Bearonauts, so Aunty Vicki made me a special star cape for the day, and it even matched the pattern of the stage curtains. Dad's astro-vest didn't. I was introduced to all of the people and bears there by the guy they called the MC (I'm not sure why). I helped the Canberra Astronomical Society show people how telescopes work. We aimed them at Black Mountain tower and looked at people on the walkways there, because there's not many stars showing in daytime. I had a big board with some of my postings on it and gave away lots of my business cards showing people where to read about me. For some of the time I was helped by George Platypus ( or was it Zoe? It's a bit hard to tell under that space helmet) and his buddy the space-bear Yoyo. We got taken for a spacewalk by a couple of giant spacemen, and met hundreds of other bears and critters, some of them looking like nothing on Earth. I made a new special friend too. He is Morris the reindeer and he lives with some nice ladies. Morris spent time with me in the astro-tent helping out, and we managed a quick nap between crowds. Teddy Bears' Picnics are great fun but you go home feeling absolutely "done in" (I had another word here but Dad scrubbed it out and told me I couldn't use it).

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