Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe
Story 51 Marty’s greatest adventure part 2 Marty’s last
bachelors weekend party.
Marty the motorcycling giraffe has had many adventures, but
now he is very excited as he is about to start on his greatest adventure of
them all, he is soon to get married to his girlfriend Gillian the Giraffe
Today Marty is getting ready for his last weekend as a
bachelor. He and his good friends Peter, Emmanuelle and Victor are going away
for a weekend of fun on the island
of Zanzibar
But first Marty plans to ride to the Masai Mara to have
breakfast with his brother (Gary) and his brother in law (George). Gary and
George were invited to the bachelor party weekend, but they preferred to stay
on the Masai Mara and eat twigs an leafs form the top of the acacia trees, as
they don’t like doing things that they think were “ungiraffe like”
So Marty got up very early in the morning and was on his
motorcycle heading towards the Masai Mara as the sun rose over the horizon like
a big ball of orange fire bringing a warm glow to the morning.
“Its going to be a nice weekend” thought Marty as he whizzed
along the grassy plains of the Masai Mara to the place where Gary and George
were waiting for him.
“Jambo Marty, are you feeling nervous with the big day
approaching” Gary shouted above the noise of the
Marty’s motorcycle Gary
Marty turned his motorcycle engine off and replied “a little
but just now I am more excited about have a special time this weekend”
Marty then joined Gary and George for a special bachelor’s
breakfast and they chomped heartily on the lovely juicy twigs and leafs from
the very tops of the trees.
The three giraffes had a lovely breakfast and a great time
chatting about old times with Gary
Soon it was time for Marty to go one his way to meet up with
Peter, Emmanuel and Victor for the rest of the bachelor party weekend.
“Well goodbye little brother, enjoy the rest of your weekend
and we will see you at the wedding” said Gary
Marty then jumped onto his motorcycle nd started to whizz
back along the road to Nairobi
Marty had planned to meet Peter, Emmanuelle and Victor at a
small airstrip just outside Nairobi , where they
are going to catch a small aeroplane and fly to the island of Zanzibar
The four friends climbed into the small aeroplane, and the
pilot asked them to put there seat belts on as he started up the engine. The small plane soon started to whizz down
the runway and take off into the skies.
“Ooh this is quite scary” cried Victor , who had never been
in an aeroplane before.
“Don’t worry” Marty reassured him “I have been in lots of
aeroplanes and they are quite safe”
The small aeroplane then flew across the East African
countryside, giving the four friends a wonderful view of the large African
plains and all the small towns they passed on the way.
After a while they passed the mighty Mount
Kilimanjaro that even towered above the height the small plane was
travelling at.
“Wow that is a very big mountain! I can hardly believe that
you climbed to the top of it Marty” exclaimed Emmanuelle
“It was a very hard climb” agreed Marty “but I was very
proud to be the first giraffe to make it to the top”
Eventually they flew past the Kenyan coast line and out over
the sea, which looked very deep and blue from the aeroplane, and there in the
distance they could see the palm tree lined, whites sands of the Zanzibar
“Wow Zanzibar
After a rather bumpy landing the four friends collected their
belongings and headed out for the beach cabin that Peter had booked for the
weekend.
It was a beautiful beach hut which over hung the sea and
forms its balcony the Marty, Peter, Victor and Emmanuelle could dive into the
clear blue water, and swim around the shallow shores and chase the little
fishes amongst the rocks.
After a while Peter announced that it was time to try out
some deeper swimming as he had hired a boat and some scuba diving gear so that
they all could doo some diving in the deeper ocean.
With Peter and Emmanuelle taking turns to sail the boat it
wasn’t long before they were well at to sea and the sandy beaches were only a
dot on the horizon.
“This seems like a good place for a dive, lets get our
wetsuits on” shouted Peter.
Squeezing the tight wet suit over his long legs and
extremely long neck was very difficult and by the time he as ready, Peter,
Emmanuelle and Victor were already in the water and diving below the boat.
Marty shouted “harambee” very loudly as he jumped off the
side of the boat and made a huge splash as he hit the water.
The four friends then spent an excellent couple of hours
swimming as deep as they can and spotting all manner of sea animals (including
some very big and quite scary fish).
Peter swam off to some far rocks under the water, turned back
to the other and signalled for them to come up to the surface.
“What’s the matter Peter?” asked Victor when they got to the
surface of the water.
“Past the rocks I swam to in the distance I can see an old
sunken ship, we could sail the boat over there and dive down to it”
They all agreed that this sounds like a very exciting idea
and they climbed back in the boat and made sail for the area Peter saw the
sunken ship.
When they reached the correct spot Peter let the boats
anchor down and with a giant shout of Harambee the four friends jumped into the
water and started swimming down to the ship wreck that was lying deep down on
the bottom of the ocean.
It was a long hard dive down the the ship wreck, but well
worth the effort and the four friends had a great time swimming around and into
the wrecked ship.
Suddenly Emmanuelle started to signal excitedly for the others
to come quickly so Marty, Peter and Victor swam to the far side of the
ship where Emmanuelle was holding some material in his hand, as they got closer
Emmanuelle unravelled the material to reveal tht it was a Jolly Roger (the
skull and cross bones flag of a pirate ship).
THIS WAS AN OLD PIRATE SHIP!!!
The four friends really enjoyed swimming in and out of the
pirate ship, and looking at the canons that were still on deck, when suddenly
Victor found something exciting hidden in the captains cabin.
Marty, Peter and Emmanuelle swam down into the cabin
Where Victor was pointing to a secret door that he had
managed to break open that led to a small long hidden tunnel. They all looked
into the tunnel and could see something shiny at the end of it.
Marty then put his long neck through the hole and saw that
the shiny thing was a small chest; he managed to get his head over the chest
and pulled it back into the cabin with his chin.
They were very exciting
about the find so they quickly lifted the chest up and swam back to the service
and climbed back on there boat.
“Quick open it up” shouted Victor excitedly.
Emmanuelle used on of the tool from their boat to prize open
the chest and they all gasped when they saw it was full of gold coins al
shining brightly in the bright sunshine
“Wow real pirate’s treasure” shouted Peter who then added “I
can hardly believe that we have found another treasure chest”
They then sailed their boat back to the shore and carried
the treasure chest to their beach cabin and agreed tht they would split the
treasure up when they get back to Nairobi
“It will certainly help pay for your wedding Marty” stated
Emmanuelle,
“That’s true” replied Marty “I am amazed at how expensive a
wedding is to arrange”
Later that evening Peter had arranged a beach barbeque party
and lots of the local people from the island came along, as they had heard all
about Marty's adventures and that he was going to get married to Gillian soon.
They all had a great time cooking some lovely sea food on eh
barbeque (but of course Marty doesn’t eat that sort of food so he just ate some
twigs and leafs), drinking smoothies and dancing to some music played by a
beach band.
Emmanuelle was particularly enjoying buying the smoothies
from the bar because there was a particularly pretty binti (young lady) called
Moira serving the smoothies.
“I love the way she miles and say karibu (welcome) every
time I say asante sana
“Oooh Emmanuel’s in love” teased Victor and they all started
laughing.
The party went on all night and the sun started to rise in
the horizon when Marty, Peter, Emmanuelle and Victor decided it as time to go
back to the beach hut and get some sleep
It was quite late the following afternoon before they all
woke up and they were still a bit tired so they spent the rest of the weekend
just lying on beach sunbathing and drinking smoothies.
But all Emmanuelle could do was talk about Moira and how he
would like to see her again
“You should invite her to the wedding, all girls love a
wedding” said Peter
“Good idea” replied Emmanuelle and he ran off down the beach
to the smoothie bar to invite Moria to Marty and Gillian’s wedding.
Emmanuelle cam back with a big smile and told the others
that Moria had agreed to come to the wedding and that now he couldn’t wait to
get back to Nairobi to make plans for Moira to visit so he could take her to
the wedding
“I can’t wait to get back to Nairobi
“I can’t wait to get back to Nairobi
“Well I can’t wait to get back to Nairobi either, because I am getting married to the
most beautiful lady giraffe in the world” sighed Marty and then he added “which
I think will be the greatest adventure of all for:
Marty the motorcycling giraffe
Look at next saturday (9th June) for the final story in Marty's year of adventures, "Marty's greartest adventure, part 3 Marty and Gillians big day"...your all invited to the wedding
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