Our First Postcards

We sent out our first postcards this week. So far we've sent to Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Holland, and England. This is the map we're using to track all the postcards we send and receive.

Today we actually received a postcard from Seelze, Germany. The funny thing is that it wasn't a postcrossing card. I had won a book from a blogger over there a couple of weeks ago, and when she shipped the book, she also sent a very nice bookmark, and the postcard that Emma is holding. How cool is that?

The very pretty card (held by the very pretty girl) shows the gardens of Herrenhausen in Hannover.

The white and yellow pins are our sent postcards. The green one shows the one we received. Along with the map, we're going to be creating a scrapbook to showcase our collection.

Around the World in Postcards

I came across this website, Postcrossing, which allows anyone to exchange postcards (paper ones, not electronic) from random places in the world. You sign up (for free), request an address to send a postcard to, send your postcard, and when they receive it, your name goes to the top of the list to get a postcard. You can set up your profile to receive postcards from within your country or only internationally - we went the international route for now.

We requested 5 address - the most you can request when you first start out. We'll be sending postcards to:

Finland

Netherlands

Germany

Lithuania

Latvia

We don't know where we'll be getting postcards from (they don't come from the people you send them to), but I'm sure the kids will be camped out at the mailbox until one comes in.