What rhymes with Wilbur?

This is probably going to be one of those stories that I go in circles about until I finally get to the point...I promise there is a point to this.

One of my favorite reality TV shows in The Amazing Race mainly because I'm such a travel junkie and want to be able to go to all the places the show goes.  Catharine and I decided years ago (we won't say how many) that we were some day going to try out to be one of the teams on the show, and we will...someday.

But the reason I bring this up is because Travelocity is the major sponsor for the show and there's all these commercials with the Roaming Gnome.  For those of you who don't know, the Roaming Gnome has his own action figure that you can buy on Amazon.  People buy this figurine and take the Roaming Gnome with them on trips and take his picture in various settings doing a variety of activities.

Now I kind of have some experience making photos like this.  When I worked at WDW, I bought Stitch because he's just so cute and is such a troublemaker.  I posed my Stitch in and around the apartment and made up captions for all the photos.  Below are two of my favorite pics:

Stitch thinks he's the Cookie Monster

Stitch can't stay out of trouble!! Got caught playing in the box but couldn't escape the bubble wrap!

So it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that I would decide to do something similar with Wilbur.  Many of you have seen the picture I posted in a previous post about the pitiful-looking Blobfish.  (I'm still kind of snickering every time I see the photo)  Meet my "artistic rendering" of Wilbur. (Remember I always say that I am a creative person but not an artistic person):

My painting of Wilbur

Wilbur will be making appearances all over the place from this point forward.  In my favorite restaurants, with some of my favorite people, I might even have to introduce Wilbur to Willie Bob (the cat) when I get to visit NC next time.

Wilbur's first outing (this is the reason for the question What rhymes with Wilbur?  I need another word to go with Wilbur that has something to do with travel -- Roaming Gnome wouldn't be the same without the roaming part, right?) was to Snowbird's Oktoberfest Celebration.  Now before any thoughts or comments about beer starts, keep in mind I cannot drink alcohol while on the medication I need to stop the seizures (Sigh!!)  So this was really just a chance to eat German food, listen to German music, enjoy the mountains and listen to the Alp Horns play! (where the deer and the Alpen Horns play, where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day --- come on, somebody knows this song though I did change antelopes to Alpen Horns on purpose.  I now can't think of ANY of the other lyrics or the actual name of the song!! It just came to me that Alpen Horns fit nicely in place of antelopes, ARGH!!)

I found someone who appreciates German culture as much as I do, Kristin!! She just started at the U and is from Miami so this week in Salt Lake is already winter to her!  I just shake my head and warn her she hasn't seen nothing yet!!  Our first stop was the Oktoberfest Halle, home to the German food and the polka band (I think they're called the B&B Allstars? IDK).  Wursts were on the menu along with real sauerkraut (not the stuff you normally buy in the store) and mustard, lots of mustard.  I tried the spaetzel (is that how it's spelled?) and Kristin got potato pancakes.  We got different sides so we could each try both.  Wilbur decided he wanted a piece of the Black Forest Torte.  I didn't really argue with him (neither did Kristin).

After lunch, we headed up on the Snowbird Tram to the top of Hidden Peak (11,000 ft in elevation) to hear the Alp Horns play.  It was 59 degrees when we left the base, it was 40 degrees at the top with a wind chill that made it feel like 30 or below.  I actually had to head into the warming hut today.

But at least we still got to hear the Alp Horns play!!  And one of the players was a lady who'd played the Horn last year!!  I think even these guys were freezing up there this year!  They didn't play very long.

I took a lot of pics of the surrounding landscape, but I'm probably going to post all of those on Facebook.  But stay tuned for more pics of                   Wilbur's Adventures!!  (Come on people, you gotta help me come up with a name!!  Fill in the blank!!)

UPDATE ::  October 1, 2013

I think the winning title is going to be "Wandering Wilbur" provided by my brother Nathaniel.  Nothing else just seems to roll off the tongue as easy.

Just for a side by side comparison......