Marty the motorcycling Giraffe

The Further adventures of Marty and Gillian the Motorcyling giraffes: Story 13 Marty and the Presidents

2018-12-15T01:21:00.000-08:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling Giraffes Story 13

Marty and the presidents

After a few years of living and working in the great African city of Nairobi and travelling the world and having marvellous adventures on his motorcycle, Marty and his wife Gillian returned to the Maasai Mara four years ago because Gillian was expecting their first baby and the Maasai Mara, with its magnificent open grasslands, bountiful supply of acacia trees and lots of other giraffes, is only place to raise a baby Giraffe.

Marty and Gillian’s son “Gregory Martin Giraffe” is now three years old and Marty and his family have quite and idealistic lifestyle, living with the other giraffes on the Maasai Mara with only thing to worry about is the occasional scary lion that might stray to close to the herd.

Marty still has his motorcycle that is parked under an acacia tree and is always kept beautifully clean and in pristine condition but Marty never rides it these days he is far too busy playing with his son and making sure his family is always safe from the scary lions.

But sometimes Marty does miss his home in the big city, his job as window cleaners assistant and all the good friends he made there, especially his and Gillian’s bests friends Peter and Gloria. But most of all Marty missed going on adventures and often day dreamed of all the places he has visited and even more about the places he is yet to visit.

One day when Marty was cleaning his motorcycle under the hot east African sun he went into one of these daydreams. Geraldine Giraffe, Marty’s sister, spotted the distant look in Marty’s eyes and moved gracefully up to her brother and whispered.

“Wake up Marty, you’re miles away again”

“Oh sorry” spluttered Marty “I was just uhh”

“I know what you were doing Marty” replied Geraldine “you were dreaming about your adventures again weren’t you? “ Before Marty could reply Geraldine added “listen little brother, I know you had a wonderful time living in the big city and whizzing around the world and that you saw things that most giraffe’s never get to see you and you must count yourself very lucky to have done so, but now you must also realise that you are very lucky to be here back on the Maasai Mara with a lovely wife and a wonderful son. You are back home Marty where you belong and you must learn to love it here”

With that she turned tail and trotted back to the rest of the herd. Marty never said a word he knew his big sister was right; in fact Geraldine was a very wise giraffe and was usually right.

Marty stood up and gave a whipped his long neck back and forth to give his head a good shake put a big smile on his face and went off to find Gillian and Gregory, and spent the rest of the day playing with his son and as the evening sun went down and Gregory fell asleep at Gillian’s feet, Marty snuggle up to his wife, rubbing necks and watching the stars rise across the darkening sky.

“Yes Geraldine was right I am a very lucky Giraffe” though Marty to himself.

Early the next morning looked out across the Mara and could see a small cloud of dust moving towards them at quiet high speed.

“What’s that daddy” asked Marty’s son Gregory.

“I think that’s a human’s jeep car coming this and kicking up a lot of dust, probably bringing tourists from countries a long way away, who like to see African animals”

“Will they be from some of the countries you went to on your adventures daddy” asked the little giraffe as he looked up admiringly at his father. “Yes son quite probably” replied Marty.

But as the jeep got closer Marty could see that it wasn’t tourists from countries far away after all but his good friends, Peter and Gloria, from Nairobi.

Excitedly Marty shouts to his wife, “Gillian, Gillian, come quickly its Peter and Gloria coming to see us”

Gillian, who was busy eating twigs and leaves from the top of an acacia tree, quickly ran across to Marty.

“Oh it is” she cried “how wonderful its ages since Gloria and I have had good chat, I hope they have got little Martina with them”.

Soon the jeep pulled up alongside the giraffes with Peter and Gloria in the front seats and little Martina (who is now four years old) sat, strapped in her car seat, in the back.

There were big hugs and kisses all round as Peter and his family got out of the jeep

“Jambo my friend it is so good to see you again” said Marty with a big smile on his face “I have missed you and missed living in Nairobi”

“We have missed you too” replied Peter “And Nairobi certainly isn’t the same without out you two living there”

As Gillian and Gloria fussed over how cute little Gregory was and how much little Martina had grown. Marty looked at Peter with slightly more serious face.

“Tell me my friend what has brought you all this way out to the Maasai Mara, is it bad news?”

“I don’t think so” replied Peter “but this letter was delivered to my window cleaner’s yard, it’s addressed to you and it’s from the State house, (the official residence of the Kenyan Parliament and the President of Kenya), I thought it might be important”

“Wow a letter from the state house, do you remember when we cleaned all their windows before and important meeting, I wonder why they are writing to me” said Marty. “Yes I do remember that, now hurry up and open the letter so we can all find out what it is about” replied Peter.

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“It’s from Mr Rono, the Government official who employed us to clean the State House windows, and he says that President Kenyatta is holding a very special event and that the former President of the USA Barack Obama is going to be there and there is going to be a garden party at the state house to celebrate the visit and President Obama has specifically asked for me to be invited. Look there is even a posh invite in the envelope” then Marty added proudly “I met President Obama in Los Angeles several years ago and he awarded me a medal”

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“Oh how exciting you are a lucky giraffe Marty” squealed Gillian “I am very jealous I would love to go to a garden party at the state house.”

“Let me see that invite” said Gloria as she snatched out of Marty’s hoof, “just as I thought” she exclaimed “the invite it for Mary Giraffe plus 1, you are going to the garden party Gillian”

Gillian squealed with excitement and soon she and Gloria were chatting away about Gillian needing new hat for the day.

“So little brother” exclaimed Geraldine who had been listening to the whole conversation “it looks like you are in for a big adventure after all”

“I certainly am” replied Marty with biggest smile possible.

The next few days were filled with excitement as Marty and Gillian planned their big day out at the State house in Nairobi and all the other giraffes could not stop talking about it either.

“Fancy my little brother being invited to the state house” exclaimed Geraldine “I am so proud” and her husband Gary grumbled about it giving Marty an excuse to start riding that noisy motorcycle again, but secretly he too was very proud that a giraffe from his herd has been invited to the statehouse.

Eventually the big day arrived and Gillian put her new hat into the top box in Marty’s motorcycle and climbed onto her little pink scoter and shouted to Marty who was busy saying goodbye to Gregory and telling him to behave for his Aunty Geraldine, “Hurry up Marty it’s time to go, bye Gregory Mummy will be back soon”

Gillian blew Gregory a kiss and started her scooter up and began to ride away, Marty ran up to his motorcycle and climbed aboard kick started the engine with a roar zoomed after Gillian. Marty’s motorcycle is very fast so to wasn’t long before he caught up with Gillian and they rode along side each other across the dusty Maasai Mara waving to the other animals as they went by (and keeping a close eye out for any scary lions) until they eventually reached the road to Nairobi.

Marty and Gillian were very excited about their adventure so despite it being quite a long way from the Maasai Mara to Nairobi it didn’t seem very long at all before they arrived at the out skirts of the city.

They stopped their motorcycles on the side of the road to look at the city ahead of them , Marty sighed “ we did have a lot of adventures when we lived in the city didn’t we” “Yes” replied Gillian “but now we have a lovely life in the Masai Mara with our beautiful family”

“That’s true” said Marty and revved up his motorcycle and shouted “let’s go the president is waiting” and off they shot back in the big city of Nairobi.

When they arrived at the State house, Mary and Gillian showed their invites and were taken into the beautiful garden area of the state house. They were told that the sequence of the day’s events was that while the garden party was going ahead there would be a meeting taking place inside the building featuring President Kenyatta and the presidents from Uganda and Tanzania was well as president Obama. After this President Kenyatta and President Obama would give a speech each and then they would mingle with the all the guests at the garden party when they would have chance to meet the presidents.

“Ohh how exciting “squealed Gillan, “Yes quite an adventure” Marty replied with a big smile on his face.

As Marty and Gillian wandered round the garden of the State House, chatting to the other guests while helping themselves to bowls of twigs and leaves (the only food that Marty and Gillian will eat) when Marty noticed that a group of officials including Mr Rono were all stood in a huddle talking excitingly.

“Mmm” thought Marty “there seems to be a problem”

As Marty walked a little closer to the huddle of officials he heard one exclaim “that it would be impossible for a car to get through the busy Nairobi traffic to pick them up and get them back here in time”.

“That gives me an idea” exclaimed and turned round and shouted “Marty come here”

Marty was already stood quite close so he just lowered his long neck so his head was level with Mr Rono and stated “I’m here”

“Excellent, we have a problem that I think you can solve. The company supplying the PA system have forgotten to bring the microphones with the rest of the equipment and they are back in their shop on the other side of the City. Do you still have your motorcycle and do you have it with you?”

“I certainly do and it’s parked just over there” replied Marty

“Well then I am sure you can help” said Mr Rono “only a skilled motorcyclist could make it through the busy Nairobi traffic to ensure the microphones are in time for the presidents to deliver their speeches.”

“Just leave it to me” shouted Marty as he raced off towards his motorcycle, shouting to Gillian that he was on a special mission.

“Don’t worry” Mr Rono said to the rest of the officials” we have the fastest motorcyclist in all of Kenya on the case”

Soon Marty was on his motorcycle whizzing through the Nairobi streets, weaving in and out of the traffic and going so fast he was just a blur to anyone who saw him go by. After a short while Marty finally arrived at the PA companies shop. Outside stood a shop worker with a box of microphones as Marty pulled up to the shop, the shop worker walked up to him and said.

“Jambo you must be Marty”

“How did you know is me?” asked Marty

“Well I was told to look out for a giraffe on a motorcycle and we don’t see many motorcycling giraffes around here”

“No” laughed Marty “I think my wife and I are the only two motorcycling giraffes in the world”

The shop worker , who was called Charles, put the box of microphones into the top box of Marty’s motorcycle and Marty jumped back on shouted “Asante, kawahri “ (thank you, goodbye)to Charles and whizzed off back through the busy Nairobi streets all the way to the state house.

In no time at all Marty arrived back at the State House, Mr Rono rushed up to Marty to collect the microphones and ran off to the stage shouting back over his shoulder “well done Marty you’ve saved the day.”

“Happy to help” smiled Marty and he set off to rejoin Gillian in the garden party.

Mr Rono then took to the stage and called for everyone’s attention as the presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and the former president of the USA would all like to say a few words.

After the speeches were finished and the loud round of applause from the garden party guests had died down, Mr Rono announced that the presidents would now mingle with the garden party guests and hoped to be able to meet and to talk to as many of them as possible.

As Marty and Gillian were enjoying the lovely atmosphere of the garden party they were approached by the President Obama.

“Well Marty we meet again, if I remember rightly last time was in Los Angeles and you were the hero that day as well.”

“Not really a hero sir” replied Marty bashfully.

“Nonsense of course you are” said President Obama you then asked who the lovely lady Marty was with was. Marty introduced Gillian to President Obama

“Very pleased to meet you Gillian, it’s nice to hear Marty has settled down and has such a lovely wife.”

This made Gillian blush as she stammered in reply “Asante Mr President and we have a lovely baby son back at the Maasai Mara too”

“Well” said President Obama “things have certainly turned out well for you Marty and we are very grateful for your actions today, but unfortunately as I am no longer the president of the USA and we are not in America I cannot award you a medal today!”

“But I can” said a voice from behind Marty. Marty turned around to see standing there with a large medal in his hand, President Kenyatta, the president of Kenya.

Marty beamed with pride as he bent forward to receive his medal, getting a medal from the president of his own country was very special indeed.

Soon the garden party came to an end and it was time for Marty and Gillian to get on their motorbikes (well Gillian of course has a pink motor scooter) and ride back to the Maasai Mara.

“Well that was a fantastic day” cried Gillian

“Yes it certainly was” replied Marty, proudly wearing his new medal, “but it will be nice to get back to the Maasai Mara and our family and of course our lovely little boy”.

“Yes, I have missed little Gregory” smiled Gillian

But as they started the long ride home Marty couldn’t help wondering what other adventure lay in store for Marty the Motorcycling giraffe and his family.

Another curious adventure of Carlos the curious condor- Carlos makes a curious trip to Egypt.

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Another curious adventure of Carlos the curious condor

Carlos makes a curious trip to Egypt.

Carlos the curious condor (a very large South American bird) lives high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, a country in South America

Carlos likes to fly around the top of the mountains with his friends, who are mainly other condors. But there are a few things that make Carlos different from other condors. One thing is he strange friendship with Pedro the paragliding Llama who he likes to go flying with, the other is that Carlos is very curious about anything and everything, the third thing that makes Carlos a very unusual condor is that to help satisfy his curiosity, Carlos has taught himself to read and often visits the library in the big Peruvian city of Lima.

One lovely sunny day (most days are sunny days in Peru), Carlos decided to fly down to Lima to visit the library to see if Senora Amaranta Sanchez (the librarian) has had any new and interesting books that he would be curious to read.

So with one big flap of his mighty wings Carlos set off into the air above the mountainside he was sat on. Carlos soared into the air and glided around for a few moments before heading off to Lima. As he was nearing the city he could see a large truck heading along the highway to the city. “Mm thought Carlos, “ that looks like my friend Manuel’s truck, I am very curious about what he is carrying in the back of the truck and where he is going” and dived down towards the truck.

It didn’t take long for Carlos to catch up with the truck and he hovered in the air for a few moments before landing, with a loud thud on top of the truck’s cab, once he got his balance Carlos leaned forward to look down through the windscreen.

Well the combination of the loud thud and seeing Carlos’s face looking in though the windscreen, gave Manuel quite a fright and he swerved across the road and had to fight hard with the steering wheel and breaks to bring the truck under control. As the truck skidded to a halt, Carlos lost his balance and was sent crashing to the floor.

Manuel opened the door and ran across to see if Carlos was all right. Carlos pulled himself to his feet and shook his head and his wings and told Manuel his was ok.

“You gave me a fright, Carlos!! You mustn’t land on my truck like that when I am driving, it is very dangerous” exclaimed Manuel

“Siento mucho” (I am very sorry) replied Carlos “I didn’t mean to cause any trouble, I am just very curious about what you have in your truck and where you are going”

Manuel laughed and said “Oh Carlos, you are curious about anything and everything!!”

Manuel then told Carlos that his truck was full of corn that he collected from some farms and he is taking them to a big distribution warehouse in town.

“I am off to the library to see if Senora Amaranta has any new curious books for me to read” said Carlos.

“Hop on top of the truck then and I will drop you off on the way” exclaimed Manuel

As Manuel drove through the City streets towards the library, everybody they passed pointed and laughed at the sight of a very large condor bird having a lift on the roof of the truck cab. But Carlos didn’t mind he was happy to get a lift and was just a bit curious about why so many people were out in the city streets and wondered where they are all going to.

Eventually they arrived at the library and Carlos leapt off the cabs roof shouting “goodbye Manuel that you for the lift” “No hay problema” (no problem) replied Manual “hope you find some nice books to read” and off he drove to deliver the corn to the warehouse

Carlos pushed the library door open and stepped up to counter and chirped “hola senora Amaranta, I have come to see if you have any books that might satisfy my curiosity.”

“Shh Carlos, this is a library” replied Senora Amaranta with a very stern look on her face

“lo siento” (Sorry) whispered Carlos.

Senora Amaranta passed Carlos two books and said “here you are, these came in today, I think you will like them they are all about Egypt” “wow” replied Carlos “I am very curious about Egypt”.

This made Senora Amaranta laugh, as she knows that Carlos is curious about anything and everything.

The more Carlos read about Egypt, about the River Nile, about Cairo (Egypt’s capital city) and of course about the ancient pyramids the more curious about Egypt he go and then he made a big decision.

“I will fly to Egypt to see this very curious country in person, well in condor actually”

“Well that’s a trip and a half” exclaimed Senora Amaranta “have a great time but take care you will be a long way from home”

“I will be fine I am used to flying long distances” laughed Carlos and he left the Library shouting a big “adios” (goodbye) as he went through the door.

“Shhhh” laughed Senora Amaranta and waved Carlos goodbye.

Once Carlos was outside the library he started to flap his mighty wings and soon he began to rise up into the sky above the houses, shops, factories and tower blocks of the city, he flew in a couple of circles above the city before shouting

“Adios Lima adios Peru, next stop Egypt” and headed off in an Eastern direction.

Soon Carlos found himself high above the Amazon basin with the huge rain forest and the mighty river below, he is a very fast flyer and it wasn’t long before he was gliding past the Brazilian beaches and out into the sky above the Atlantic Ocean

It was a very long and tiring flight across the Atlantic and although Carlos kept himself busy by thinking curious thoughts about what may be swimming the deep ocean he was delighted when he could see the West African coast appearing on the horizon.

Carlos was feeling very tired so he dropped down from the sky and landed on first beach he saw as he arrived on the coast of West Africa

“ Bonjour, bienvenue sur la Côte d'Ivoire” (Hello, welcome to the Ivory coast) said a voice coming from where the sand meets the trees and the African jungle starts.

Carlos looked up to see a small monkey standing on the sand. “Hola” he replied “I am Carlos, I am from Peru and I am on my way to Egypt”

“You have flown along way then and still have a long way to go “ replied the Monkey who then introduced himself as Monty the monkey.

Carlos and Monty then had a long chat, with Carlos asking Monty all about life in Africa and the Ivory Coast. “Wow” exclaimed Monty “you do ask a lot of questions, you must be a very curious bird”. “Yes replied Carlos I am curious about anything and everything” This made the Monty laugh.

After a while Carlos told Monty that he must say Adios and be on his way as he still has a long way to go.

“Au revoir, it was nice to meet you “shouted Monty as he ran to climb up one of the nearest trees.

Carlos flapped his mighty wings and took off into the skies and was soon flying high above the African Jungle, looking down he couldn’t help be curious about the different things living in the dense forest below. Eventually the trees below stared to thin out and give way to the sands that are the start of the giant Sahara desert.

For mile after mile Carlos flew on over the dessert with the hot African sun burning down on his back.

“My, this desert is as big as the ocean, I wonder if I will ever reach Egypt” Carlos thought to himself.

After many hours of flying Carlos saw something glistening in the sun light up ahead, “that looks like a city, I hope its Cairo “ thought Carlos and after a few more minutes flying Carlos reached the centre of Cairo (the capital city of Egypt.

After flying around the city for a while Carlos found a nice spot to land, a busy square near the centre of the city. As you can imagine such a large bird landing in the middle of a busy city like Cairo caused quite a commotion and soon Carlos found himself quite the centre of attention.

One young man stepped out of the crown and introduced himself as Zahur and asked Carlos what a South American Condor was doing landing in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

“Hola” replied Carlos and told Zahur about his long flight and how curious he as to find out about Egypt and especially the ancient pyramids

“You are in luck then” said Zahur “because I am a tourist guide for the great pyramids of Giza and I can take you there and tell you all about them”

“That would be wonderful” said Carlos.

So Carlos climbed in Zahur’s jeep and soon they were driving out of the city and on their way to Giza.

On the way Carlos listened intently as Zahur told him all bout Egypt’s ancient history with all its pharaohs (Egyptian kings) and how mighty its empire used to be.

“You seem very keen to learn about Egypt” said Zahur. “Yes” replied Carlos “I am very curious about your country, actually I am very curious about anything and everything!”

This made Zahur laugh loudly.

It was a long drive to Giza and along the way Zahur pulled into a rest area to take a break. At one end of the rest area stood a group of camels all excitingly talking to one camel who was strangely sat upon a quad bike.

“A camel riding a quad bike, how curious” exclaimed Carlos.

“Oh him” replied Zahur “that’s Quentin the Quad biking camel, he thinks he is so special”.

“I am very curious to meet him“said Carlos and hopped over to Quentin

“Hola my name is Carlos, I am from South America and I have never seen a quad biking camel before”

“Of course you haven’t” said Quentin rather snootily and then he looked down his hose at Carlos and exclaimed “I am the only Quad biking camel in the world”

“I am sure you are” replied Carlos and curiously asked “ does the quad bike go very fast”.

“Of course it does, it fact I am probably the fastest animal in the world” said Quentin rather grandly

“Except of course for that Motorcycling giraffe that beat you in a race” Laughed Zahur

“Huh Marty the motorcycling giraffe, don’t talk to me about him he just got lucky that’s all”

“Marty the motorcycling giraffe from Kenya?” questioned Carlos “he is my friend I met him when he came to Peru

“Huh! If you are a friend of that giraffe then you are no friend of mine” grumped Quentin and jumped on his quad bike and zoomed off down the road.

“Don’t worry about him” said Zahur to Carlos “he isn’t a very nice camel, come on let’s get back on the road to the pyramids.”

When they arrived at the great pyramids Carlos was amazed at how big they were, especially Cheops pyramid which is the biggest of the three. He was also very curious about the strange looking Sphinx statue.

Zahur showed Carlos around the site explaining that the sphinx has the head of a human and the body of a human and the great Sphinx of Giza’s head is thought to represent the Pharaoh Kharfru and that the Cheops pyramid was built to house the tomb of the great pharaoh Khufu.

Carlos had a fantastic time at Giza and when he had finally satisfied his curiously for Egypt he thanked Zahur for showing him around and being so kind and flapped his mighty wings and took off into the air shouting

“Adios Zahur adios”

Soon Carlos was flying high above the desert to make his long journey back to South America and he could help wondering what other curious places, people, animals and things there were in the word for him to find out about.

Previous story featuring Quentin the Quad biking camel

http://martygiraffe.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/marty-motorcycling-giraffe-story-22.html

Previous story featuring Pedro and Carlos

http://martygiraffe.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/marty-motorcycling-giraffestory-30.html

http://martygiraffe.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/curious-adventure-of-carlos-curious.html

The Further adventures of Marty and Gillian the Motorcycling Giraffes. Story 12 Marty goes home (Gillian’s exciting news)

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The Further adventures of Marty and Gillian the Motorcycling Giraffes.

Story 12 Marty goes home (Gillian’s exciting news)

Marty the motorcycling giraffe lives in the big African city Nairobi with his wife Gillian the Giraffe. Marty moved to Nairobi a few years ago so that he could ride his motorcycle and look for adventures to go on.

And my what a lot of exciting adventures he has been on , including :- winning a motorcycle race against a camel in the dessert, receiving a medal from the president of the USA, meeting the Loch Ness monster, learning to surf in Australia, going for a walk on the Great Wall of China and many many more. But of course his greatest and most exciting adventure was meeting, falling in love and marrying Gillian.

Along the way Marty has met some very good friends, like Troy the trucking moose, Kevin the kayaking monkey, Pedro the paragliding Llama and Carlos the curious condor. But his best friend is his boss Peter Ngono the Window cleaner. Marty works as a window cleaner’s assistant and is especially helpful to Peter when cleaning the windows of the very tall buildings in Nairobi (Peter sits on Marty’s head to reach the very high up windows).

Marty is a very happy motorcycling Giraffe and is very content with life of adventures and loves his little house in Nairobi

Marty and Gillian were having a barbeque with their good friends Peter (the window cleaner) his wife Gloria and there little girl Martina and Emmanuelle (the farmer) and his girlfriend Moira. They cooked lots of lovely different kinds of food on the barbeque but Marty and Gillian are quite fussy eaters and they will only eat their favourite food, which of course is a big pile of twigs and leafs from the acacia trees. And of course Gloria made everyone lots of her famous lovely fruit smoothies.

The friends were all having a lovely time but as Marty, Emmanuelle and Peter stood chatting about motorcycles and cracking jokes , Marty couldn’t help noticing that Gillian, Gloria and Moira were hustled together talking very quietly and seriously.

“What’s the matter with you girls” shouted Marty “you’re all being a bit serious, we are meant to having fun”.

Gillian turned to Marty and said “I have something very important to talk to you about Marty”

“What is it” asked Marty who was now starting to worry.

“Well Marty, what do think of the idea that we should move out of the city and back to the Masai Mara?”

“Move out of our lovely little house and out of the city where all the adventures happen and where our friends are, why would we want to do that “exclaimed Marty, who was a little shocked by the suggestion

“Well” said Gillian softly “don’t you think the Masai Mara is a good place for giraffe children to grow up”?

“Of course it is I loved it there when I was a Twiga mtoto (young giraffe), but we are not watoto (children) any more”!! Replied Marty who was now looking quite confused

“Does this mean what I think it means”? asked Peter

“Yes” squealed Gloria, Moira and Gillian

“Pongezi”!! (Congratulations) shouted Peter and Emmanuelle.

“What?” asked Marty who was even more confused as all is friends started to hug Gillian’s neck and pat him on the back.

“Oh Marty, don’t be so silly Gillian is going to have a baby” exclaimed Gloria.

“What?” exclaimed Marty “oh my, what, I am going to be a daddy” and he started to go very pale and a little wobbly

“Steady on Marty” laughed Peter “you had better sit down before you fall down”

Marty slumped on to the floor still looking dumbfounded

“Yes Marty” Said Gillian softly “you are going to be a daddy and I am going to be a Mummy”

Marty shook himself, stood up and walked over to Gillian and gave her a big kiss and rubbed his neck against hers (this is how giraffes hug and cuddle each other.) And everyone else shouted “pongezi”.

The rest of the evening flew as everyone had a great time and they were all in such a good mood after hearing Marty and Gillian’s

After everyone had gone home, Marty and Gillian had a long chat about the baby and they both agreed that it would be better if they left the city and went back to live in the Masai Mara.

“We will miss our friends but we can always come and visit them “said Gillian.

The next day Marty and Gillian set off to go to the Masai Mara to tell their family and friends there about their exciting news and plans to move back to the Masai Mara.

Marty rode his motorcycle with Gillian following behind on her little pink motor scooter as they got close to the part of the Masai Mara that their families and friends lived, Marty’s little niece Georgina Giraffe spotted the dust being kicked up by their motorcycles and got very excited.

“Uncle Marty’s coming, Uncle Marty’s coming” she shouted excitedly “I wonder what adventures he has to tell about this time”.

“Ummph” tutted George (Georgina’s father) “looks like your little brother is making a visit on that pesky motorcycle” he said to his wife Geraldine (Marty’s sister and Georgina’s mum)

“Oh don’t be such a grump” laughed Geraldine “we know you secretly like to hear about Marty’s adventures as much as the rest of us

As Marty and Gillian pulled up and parked their motorcycles alongside an acacia tree, all the Giraffe’s gathered around eager to hear the latest tales of Marty’s exciting adventures.

“It’s not me with the exciting news this time “said Marty with a big smile on his face “Its Gillian that has something to tell you all”.

Gillian looked a little bashful at first and then blasted out “I am going to have a baby, Marty and I are going to be parents”.

Everyone cheered and congratulated Marty and Gillian. Geraldine looked at Gary Giraffe and smiled “imagine our little brother going to be a daddy, who would have thought it”

George giraffe fetched his friend Edward the elephant to carry the largest piles of twigs and leafs so they could all celebrate in style.

“I am going to the other side of the Masai Mara to tell my Mother in the morning “ Gillian informed the group of friends , “and then Marty and I are going to make plans to move out of the city and back to the Masai Mara, as this is the only place to bring up a twiga motto (baby giraffe).”

“Yes” said George very seriously “you can’t keep on gallivanting around the world and living it up in the big city when you have a family Marty, you will also have to get rid of that motorcycle too , the Masai Mara is no place for a motorcycling giraffe.”

“shhh stop it” Geraldine hissed at George

After all the twigs and leafs were eaten and darkness was setting across the Masai Mara everyone decided it was time for bed. But Marty couldn’t get to sleep and quietly he slipped away from the Acacia trees and stood looking out across the Masai Mara that was being lit by a large round red full moon and a billion starts twinkling in the night sky.

Marty knew he should be happy about becoming a daddy, but he couldn’t help worrying whether he would be a good father, and worried what life would be like back at the Masai Mara, with no motorbike, no adventures and spending all day just stood around eating twigs and leafs from the tops of the acacia trees.

After a while he heard soft footsteps behind him but he didn’t look around and then he felt a giraffe’s neck against his (rubbing necks is how Giraffes hug each other) and the soft voice of his sister Geraldine saying

“Come on little brother, I know what you’re thinking about and don’t worry you are going to be a wonderful father”

Marty turned to protest but Geraldine just said “hush and don’t you worry about what George say’s if you and Gillian and the baby are coming back to live here, we will all be delighted and of course you can bring your motorcycle and believe me once the baby is born there will more than enough adventures to be had for:-

Marty, Gillian and your baby Motorcycling Giraffe

No Marty stories for a long time but a new one will be published this Saturday 20/12/2014

2014-12-17T22:58:00.003-08:00

Look out for the next thrilling story of Marty the motorcycling giraffe coming soon

It has been nearly 2 years since the last story of Marty's thrilling adventures was posted, But look our for this Saturdays (20/12/2014) for Story 12 in the Further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes. Marty goes home (Gillian's exciting news)

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcyling giraffes, Story 11 Marty and the dinosaur

2013-05-17T23:10:00.002-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 11 Marty and the dinosaur

As you will know by now, Marty is a giraffe who lives in the big African city of Nairobi in Kenya. Marty lives with his wife Gillian and works as window cleaner’s assistant with his friends Peter (the window cleaner) and Victor (the trainee window cleaner).

But what Marty likes to do best is to whizz around on his motorcycle while looking out for adventures.

Marty and Gillian are sat in the garden of their little house in Nairobi discussing how they could tidy it up and make it look a lot nicer.

“We could build a garage at the one side, that we could store our motorcycles in” Said Marty

“Yes and we could have a raised patio outside the back door where we could sit in the evening” replied Gillian.

“Mmm yes and how about planting some acacia trees in the corner then we can always have a snack of fresh leafs and twigs while sat in the garden” stated Marty.

'Matumaini wewe!' Alicheka Gillian 'daima kufikiri ya tumbo lako, wewe alikuwa bora kuangalia au wewe kuwa kama mafuta kama kiboko' (“Trust you!” Laughed Gillian “always thinking of your stomach, you had better watch out or you will become as fat as a hippopotamus”)

This made Marty laugh, “we should get Emmanuelle (Marty’s friend the farmer) to design the garden as he is good at these things and the rest of the gang to help” he said.

So a couple of days later, first thing t in the morning, Emmanuelle turned up on his tractor pulling a trailer filled with the necessary tools, equipment, a self build garage and two acacia trees.

Moira, Emmanuelle’s girlfriend had also come along to help out and soon after Peter and his wife Gloria (and of course baby Martina- Jilly) and Victor also turned up.

Emmanuelle took charge of the operation and soon had the whole gang working hard on the garden.

First they flattened the ground closest to the house and laid the foundations for the raised patio and as Emmanuelle and Victor worked on laying the patio , Marty, Gillian , Peter and Moira started to dig away at the ground to lower the far end of the garden . Baby Martina-Jilly had woken up by now so Gloria was excused digging to look after the little one.

Peter and Moira dug the ground and shovelled the spare earth into a pair of large buckets that Gillian and Marty held in their mouths, then like two large spotty cranes Marty and Gillian lifted the buckets up and emptied the earth into the back of Emmanuelle’s truck

“I can make good use of that soil back at the farm” commented Emmanuelle.

It wasn’t long before the patio was finished and the second half of the garden was suitably lowered so that patio had a nice raised look

“That looks really good” stated Marty

“Yes just the pond to be dug and the garage to be put up and we will be finished” replied Gillian with an excited squeal

“Well you have al been working so hard, I think you had better take a break before starting the rest of the work” said Gloria who had come out into the garden with a large plate of sandwiches that she had made up and a big jug of her special ice cool fruit smoothies.

The friends all tucked into the sandwiches and smoothies (except of course Marty and Gillian as they don’t eat sandwiches they helped themselves to a large pile of twigs and leafs instead)

After their break the gang got back to work and soon had garage put together and erected at one side of the garage and dug two large holes for the acacia trees to be planted in

Marty poured two large buckets of water into the holes and Emmanuelle and Peter gently placed the trees into place and firmed the ground around them.

“These trees should grow big and strong and provide you with plenty of your favourite food” said Emmanuelle

“Asnte sana” (“Thank you very much”) said Gillian “ but don’t let Marty stop work and start munching before my pond has been dug out” this made everyone laugh.

Peter, Emmanuelle and Victor all then started digging a large hole for the pond, again lifting the soil into a large bucket that Marty held in his teeth and every time it was full he lifted it up and poured the soil out into the back of Emmanuelle’s truck.

Meanwhile baby Martina- Jilly had woken up and Gloria, Moira and Gillian were happily cuddling and playing with her.

It was hard and thirsty work digging in such a big hole in the hot African sun but soon they were getting down to level where they could pour in a concrete base for the pond, when Victor’s spade hit something hard and round.

At first he though it was just a large stone but it was very smooth and as he cleared the mud off it he realised it looked like a large egg.

“Look at this, it’s a bit odd” said Victor

Yes that is a bit strange” replied Peter “and look there are several of them”

With a bit more digging they managed to unearth eight of these strange large egg shaped rocks

After a lot of head scratching and different opinions of what they might be, Peter said that he had a friend at the Nairobi Museum and he would take the rocks there to find out what they are.

So Peter lifted the rocks into the back of the van and headed off to the museum.

“Typical” said Victor “Peter always finds a way to leave the hard work to us”

While Peter was gone Marty, Victor and Emmanuelle finished digging the pond they poured the concrete base in and after a little wait, to let the concrete dry (it dried quite quickly in the hot African sun), they poured the water in to make a lovely pond.

'Oh bustani yangu inaonekana ajabu' alisema Gillian 'asante sana, una kila kazi kwa bidii' (“Oh my garden looks wonderful” said Gillian “thank you very much, you have all worked so hard”)

“Hakuna matata” replied Emmanuelle “ni jambo jema daima kusaidia marafiki” (it’s always good to help friends out”)

“Well when Peter gets back we are going to have a big barbeque party to celebrate our garden being finished” said Marty.

A little later Peter arrived back from the museum in a very excited mood.

“Those rocks were fossilised dinosaur eggs, and my friend is going to display them at the museum”

“Wow dinosaur eggs that is fantastic” exclaimed Victor, and they all agreed that it was a very exciting find.

The friends then relaxed in the newly landscaped garden and ate a large meal of barbequed food all washed down with lots of Gloria and Moira special fruit smoothies. Marty and Gillian of course just ate lots of their favourite food, fresh twigs and leafs from their new acacia trees.

After a while Gloria told everyone that she and Peter will have to go home to put Martina –Jilly to bed and everyone else agreed that they were all feeling tired after such a hard days work and will be heading for home.

“Kwaheri, asante sana kwa kazi ngumu yako yote” (goodbye thank you very much for all your hard work”) shouted Marty and Gillian as they waved their friends off.

“Time for bed I think Marty” said Gillian

“In a minute” mumbled Marty with his mouth full of acacia twigs and leafs.

“You’ll make yourself sick eating so much so close to bed time” scolded Gillian

As they were both very tired it wasn’t long before Marty and Gillian drifted off into a deep sleep.

A few hours later Marty was woken up by a strange scrapping and digging sound coming from his garden.

Marty couldn’t believe his eyes when he looked out of the window, as there in his garden was a large dinosaur scraping at the ground.

The dinosaur spotted Marty at his window and stood straight up and peered into the window, the dinosaur was as big as Marty’s house and had a large mouth with very sharp looking teeth, Marty felt quite frightened.

“Where are my eggs gone” roared the dinosaur

“But they are just fossils now” gibbered Marty “they are thousands of years old, my friend took them to the museum”

“What!!” roared the dinosaur “I want my eggs now” and smashed his head through the window, shattering the glass everywhere and sending Marty spinning back across the room landing on his bed sitting bolt upright.

Marty was very scared but then he heard Gillian’s soothing voice.

“Marty wake up your having a very bad dream, I told you about eating so many twigs and leafs before bedtime”

“Bbbbbut the dinosaur” gibbered Marty

“It’s just a dream” said Gillian now go back to sleep and in the morning we can see what new adventures there are for

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling griaffes

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes Story 10 Marty and the Great Easter egg hunt

2013-03-30T01:12:00.002-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 10 Marty and the great Easter egg hunt

It is Easter Sunday, but instead of having a well-earned long lie in bed, Marty and Gillian the Motorcycling giraffes are up at the break of dawn, because they have promised Mrs Wanijru, who looks after the watoto (children) at the local orphanage, that they would help hide some Easter eggs before the watoto wake up and have their traditional Easter egg hunt after breakfast.

Marty and Gillian had a quick breakfast of twigs and leaves, and headed off to the orphanage, Marty leading the way on his motorcycle and Gillian following behind on her pink motor scooter.

When they arrived at the orphanage they were met by Mrs Wanijru and Mr Rono (a very important government executive who works at the Nairobi state house)

“Hujambo Marty na Gillian ni `s nzuri kuona wewe, asante kwa kuja kusaidia, watoto wote kupata msisimko sana kuhusu Pasaka yai kuwinda” (“hello Marty and Gillian it`s good to see you, thank you for coming to help, the children are all get very excited about the Easter egg hunt”) said Mrs Wanijru.

“hujambo Bw wa Wanijru, yako mnakaribishwa sana Gillian na mimi ni furaha daima msaada kutoka nje, kama inafanya watoto furaha ” (“hello Mr's Wanijru your very welcome, Gillian and I are always happy to help out, if it makes the children happy) replied Marty.

“Well let’s get to work then” said Mr Rono “your friends Peter and Gloria are already inside getting the Easter eggs out of the store cupboard.”

“Ooh” squealed Gillian “have they bright baby Martina-Jilly with them” and rushed inside.

When she got inside she found baby Martina-Jilly fast asleep in her pram.

“Ooh she is beautiful” sighed Gillian

“Yes she is” said Gloria who had stepped alongside the pram “me and Peter are so lucky to have her”

The four friends and Mr Rono then took all the Easter eggs outside and Mrs Wanijru went to wake all the children up and make them breakfast, Mrs Wanijru also took baby Martina –Jilly with, so she could look after her while Gloria helped out with hiding the Easter eggs.

Marty, Gillian, Peter, Gloria and Mr Rono ran around the orphanage yard to look for good places to hide the eggs. They put some under the garden shrubs, a couple of eggs were hidden in low branches of the orphanage’s tree and others were hidden in some of the outside toys and in the playgrounds slide, roundabout and few others were buried in the sand pit.

After the children finished their breakfast they followed Mrs Wanijru (who was still pushing Martina-Jilly in her pram) and she lined them all up alongside the wall of the orphanage wall.

“Watoto, Mimi nataka ninyi nyote kusema kubwa thank you, kwa Mr Rono, Marty, Gillian, Peter na Gloria, ambao wote wamekuwa wakifanya kazi kwa bidii na kuanzisha Pasaka yai kuwinda kwa ajili ya wewe” (“Children, I want you all to say a big thank you, to Mr Rono, Marty, Gillian, Peter and Gloria, who have all been working hard to set up the Easter egg hunt for you”) said Mrs Wanijru

“Asante sana” shouted the children very loudly indeed.

This made everyone laugh; Mr Rono then blew on a whistle and shouted

“Tatu, mbili, moja, kuanza kuwinda” (“three, two one, start the race)

The children let out a very loud cheer and raced forward to start hunting for the eggs. As the children ran around looking under and over things to try and find the eggs, Mrs Wanijru and the five helpers sat on a bench watching the children and tracking it in turns to cuddle baby Martina-Jilly, who giggled happily enjoying all the attention.

It didn’t seem long until there was a large pile of Easter eggs piled up in the middle of the playground , the children had fund them all.

Mrs Wanijru then got the children to line up against the wall so she could tell them all to take their eggs back inside to the dining room where they could enjoy all the lovely chocolate. But Mrs Wanijru noticed that one of the boys was missing.

“Children, does anyone know where William Koshi is?” shouted Mrs Wanijru.

None of the children answered and Mrs Wanijru started to worry, in 20 years of running the orphanage she has always known where the children are at all times.

“Don’t worry, he can’t have gone far” said Gloria “you take the children and Martina-Jilly inside to enjoy their chocolate eggs, and we will look for William outside.”

Once the children were inside Marty, Gillian, Peter, Gloria and Mr Rono searched the playground calling out William’s name.

Then Gillian thought that she heard something and told everyone to be quite. Listening really carefully she realised that she could hear a faint sobbing noise coming from the roof of the orphanage, as she got closer she realised the sound was coming from behind the chimney pot.

Gillian stretched her long neck up to the roof and peaked around the other side of the chimney pot, to find a very scared and very upset little boy.

“William what are you doing up here?” asked Gillian.

“I thought there might be an egg up here so I climbed up the drain pipe and then I couldn’t get down and I was scared I might be in trouble”.

“Well it is silly and dangerous to climb on the roof, but I am sure Mrs Wanijru will not be cross with you, if you promise not to do it again, now let’s get you down”

Gillian called Marty over and told William to climb on Marty’s big head and hold on to his little horns so Marty could gently lower him to the ground.

Gloria took William inside the orphanage where Mrs Wanijru was so pleased to see him that she gave William a big hug and told him to go and eat some chocolate.

Mrs Wanijru came out to thank everyone for their help and told them they were all heroes. This made everyone smile.

And finally it was time to go home , so Gillian gave baby Martin-Jilly one last kiss and Marty and Gillian shouted “kwahari” (goodbye) and they climbed on their motorbikes and zoomed off for home.

Back in their little house Marty said

“Well what an exciting adventure that turned out to be, I wonder what adventure will be next for

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling Giraffes.

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes Story 9 Troy the trucking moose pays a visit from Canada

2013-02-02T00:19:00.001-08:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 9 Troy the trucking moose pays a visit from Canada.

Its Sunday morning and Marty and Gillian are having a lie in as neither of them are working today, they were both enjoying the lie in as they have been working extra hard recently, with Gillian having to cover extra shifts at the smoothie bar as Gloria Gillian’s boss and best friend , who has just given birth to a beautiful baby girl (Martina-Jilly) is on maternity leave and Peter (Marty’s best friend and boss) keeps leaving Marty and Victor (the trainee window cleaner) to clean all the windows in Nairobi, so that he could spend more time with his wife and new baby daughter.

Suddenly their restful morning was disturbed by some loud banging on the door

“Someone’s at the door go and see who it is” said Gillian to Marty

Marty climbed out of bed and grumbled

“Sounds like they are trying to knock the door down banging that hard”

Marty opened the door to find a very large animal with big antlers, wearing a large cowboy hat and a checked lumber jack shirt with its sleeves rolled up to show the creatures large muscles.

“Howdy Marty, you didn’t expect me to be at your door” he exclaimed.

“Troy? Troy the trucking moose, what are you doing in Nairobi” spluttered a surprised Marty.

“I had the opportunity for a few days of from work, so I thought I would jump on a plane and come and visit my good friends in Africa” replied Troy

“Naam kuwakaribisha kwa Kenya, (Well welcome to Kenya), come on in and make yourself at home.” Said Marty before shouting to Gillian that they had a very special visitor, all the way from Canada.

Marty, Gillian and Troy then sat down to large breakfast of twigs and leafs and had a long chat about what they have been all doing since they last met (at Marty and Gillian’s wedding)

Troy told them all about Kevin the Kayaking monkey (from Zambia) coming to visit him in Canada and Marty and Gillian told them about their good friends Peter and Gloria’s wonderful news.

“Oh that’s lovely I am so pleased for them” stated Troy “I would like to go and visit them and meet baby Martina-Jilly before I go home”

“Well why don’t we go over to Peter’s house this afternoon” said Gillian, who never misses the chance to go and see the new baby.

So later that day the three headed over to Peter and Gloria’s house, Marty on his motorcycle with Troy riding pillion behind him and Gillian following on behind on her pink motor scooter.

It didn’t take them very long to get through the busy Nairobi streets and they son arrived at Peter and Gloria’s

They knocked on the door and Peter let them in

“Do you remember Troy form Canada, he was at mine and Gillian’s wedding”

“Yes” replied Peter “how can you forget a trucking moose, Jambo Troy kuwakaribisha kwa Kenya, (welcome to Kenya)”

“Well thank you Peter, Mary has been telling me about your new arrival”

“Yes come in and meet baby Martina-Jilly, she is in the front room with Gloria”

Gillian was already in front room chatting to Gloria about the baby and bending over into the crib and tickling Martina-Jilly’s tummy with her little horns. This made the baby chortle and giggle.

Gloria made some tea and cakes for Peter and herself and fetched some twigs and leafs for Marty, Gillian and Peter and the friends sat around all afternoon talking about the baby and the different things Troy could do and see while he was in Africa

Peter the told Marty that he knows that Marty has had to work extra hard on the window cleaning round recently and that he should take a few days off from work to show Troy around Nairobi and other places in Keyna.

“Yes” commented Gloria “and the same for you too Gillian, I can get Moira to do some extra shifts at the smoothies stall”

“Oh asante sana” replied both Marty and Gillian

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“I will need you to work at Mr Makushi’s transport yard on Friday afternoon though; there are too many trucks for just me and Victor to clean”

“I’ll be there” smiled Marty

Marty, Gillian and Tory then gave little baby Martina-Jilly one last cuddle and set off back to Marty and Gillian’s house to make plans for where they could take Troy and what they could show him in the next few days.

The next day Marty and showed Troy all around their home town of Nairobi, including going for dinner at the Stanley hotel bar, walking through Uhuru park and shopping in Tom Mboya avenue.

Then from Tuesday to Thursday they set off for a few days camping in the Masai Mara, where Marty and Gillian introduced Troy to their family and friends.

Marty’s nice, Georgina, was delighted that Marty and Gillian had come to visit them and was very excited to meet Troy the trucking moose and sat quietly for hours listening to Troy’s exciting tales of his adventures he had had while driving his truck all over North America.

“Ooh Canada and the USA sounds like they are very exciting countries, I would love to visit them one day” squealed Georgina in excitement

“They are great places to have adventures in” replied Marty who then added rather seriously

“But you know there is no place like home and Africa is also a wonderful place full of adventures”

Troy also really enjoyed seeing all the other very exciting African animals, such as elephants, hippos zebra and wildebeests; he even enjoyed watching (from a safe distant) a pride of very scary lions.

On Friday morning Marty, Gillian and Troy said there goodbyes to the other giraffes as they had to get back to Nairobi in time for Marty to arrive at Mr MaKushi’s transport yard in time to help Peter and Victor clean all the trucks.

“Kwahari uncle Marty, Kwahari Gillian, kwahari Troy, kuja nyuma kuona kwangu karibuni (come back to see me soon)” shouted Georgina

“Yes don’t leave it too long before your next visit” added Marty’s brother Gary

The rest of the giraffes nodded in agreement and shouted “kwahari have a safe trip home”

Marty, Gillian and Troy were soon zooming along the hot dusty roads out of the Masai Mari and heading back towards Nairobi.

When they arrived at Nairobi, Gillian told Marty and Troy that she was going to visit Gloria and baby Martina-Jilly and Troy decided to go with Marty to help out at Mr MaKushi’s transport yard.

Peter was very pleased to have an extra person or in this case extra moose to help out and soon Marty, Peter , Victor and Troy were hard at work cleaning all Mr Makushi’s trucks inside and out.

After a while Mr Makushi came out of his office looking very glum while talking to someone on his mobile (cell) phone. After he finished the phone call, Peter asked him if everything is ok.

“Not really, Michael one of my drives has broken down on an important run, the breakdown service will go and tow the truck back, but I need to get the cargo delivered and by the time Michael gets back and changes truck it will be too late as the customer in Arusha will be closed for the night.”

“Cant you send someone out with another truck and swap the load over so Michael can continue on his delivery”

“All my other drivers have finished for the day” replied Mr Makushi shaking his head.

“I am a truck driver” said Troy “I could take a vehicle out to this Michael help swap the load and get a lift back with the tow truck”

“That would be very useful, are you sure you don’t mind”

“It’s no problem or as you would say hakuna matata” laughed Troy

Marty offered to ride his motorcycle ahead of Troy to show him the way.

“Yeah anything to get out of cleaning the trucks” laughed Victor

So Marty set off on his motorcycle with Troy following behind on his truck, as they moved through the city streets, Troy enjoyed letting off the trucks loud horn, and smiling to himself when the people of Nairobi looked in amazement to see a trucking moose.

Soon they left the city and were one the main Nairobi – Moshi highway, and after a short while they came along Michael’s broken down truck.

Marty and Troy pulled up beside the truck but could see no sign of Michael the driver, they thought this was a little strange as they walked along to the front of the truck and then Marty looked through the cab widows to see Michael lying across the seats fast asleep

Marty knocked on the cabs windows and shouted

“Oi kuamka kichwa usingizi! (Oi wake up sleepy head)”

Michael sat up with a shock and then saw Marty through the window, but h had to rub his eyes to ensure he wasn’t dreaming when he Troy too next to Marty, Michael ha never seen a moose before and especially not one dressed in a lumberjack shirt and cowboy hat.

“Oh it’s you Marty and you or what is your friend?” asked a bemused Michael.

“This Troy the trucking moose all the way from Canada, and he has driven a spare truck down here for you transfer you load into , so you can carry on with delivery to Arusha”

So Marty Michael and Troy stared to swap the load from the broken down truck to the new one, and although there were a lot of very heavy boxes, with Troy’ help it didn’t take long before they were finished

“It was very nice to meet you Troy and thank you for helping me” said Michael as he climbed into the cab of the new vehicle and set off to Arusha

“Kwahari” Marty and Troy shouted after him

“Your picking up the Swahili very well” laughed Marty.

By this time the tow truck arrived to take the broken down truck back to the yard, but as it was now getting late Troy decided to go back to Nairobi on the back of Marty’s motorcycle.

It was too late to go back to the yard so Marty and Troy went straight back to Marty and Gillian’s little house. When they arrived they found that Gillian had already arrived home from visiting Gloira and the new baby, and she had laid out a large dinner of the best twigs and leafs form the tastiest acacia trees.

They had a lovely dinner and stayed up long into a night talking about the days adventure.

The next morning it was time for Troy to catch the aeroplane home to Canada, Marty and Gillian rode their motorcycles to the airport to see Troy off.

“Well so long partners, thank you for letting me stay and showing me so much of Africa”

“It’s been great having you, kwaheri rafiki yangu, na safari salama nyumbani (goodbye my friend, have a save trip home” replied Marty.

“Well” said Marty to Gillian “that was an unexpected visit, that turned into another adventure, makes you wonder what other adventures lie in store for

Marty and Gillian the Motorcycling giraffes

Further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes, story 8 Marty and Gillian's wonderful new years adventure

2012-12-29T00:42:00.001-08:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes.

Story 8 Marty and Gillian’s wonderful New Years Eve adventure

Marty and Gillian are motorcycling giraffes who live in the big Kenyan city of Nairobi. Marty has a job working for his good friend Peter Ngono as a window cleaner’s assistant, while Gillian works with Peter’s wife Gloria running a stall selling fruit smoothies.

But what Marty and Gillian really like to do is to whizz around on their motorcycles and have lots of adventures.

As it is new years even Marty had finished his work early but Gillian had not started work yet, as she and Gloria are going to set up their stall in Uhuru Park ( a big park in the centre of Nairobi) and work all night selling smoothies to the crowd that will gather there to celebrate the new year arriving.

As well as Gillian and Gloria working at Uhuru Park, Marty and Gillian other friends, Peter, Victor (the trainee window cleaner), Emmanuelle (a farmer) and Moira (Emmanuelle’s girlfriend) will all be joining them at Uhuru Park later to join in with the celebrations.

Marty had agreed to go along with Gillian to help set up the stall because Gloria and Gillian wanted to put a big banner reading

“lovely smoothies kwa ajili ya kuuza” (“Lovely cool smoothies for sale”)

High above their stall and of course Marty and Gillian are very useful when you need something put up high, as they can reach the top of the poles to the banner up with ease.

So after Marty had a quick wash and freshen up, they set of for Uhuru Park, Marty leading the way on his very fast motorcycle and Gillian following behind on her little pink motor scooter.

It didn’t take Mary and Gillian long before they reached Uhuru Park and found Gloria standing beside Peter’s van giving Peter instructions as where to put all smoothies’ equipment and boxes of fruit that he was unloading form the van.

Gloria can't help Peter carry the heavy boxes as she is expecting their first baby and is now quite heavily pregnant.

Peter and Marty helped Gillian and Gloria set the stall up and then Gloria took one end of the banner in her teeth and Marty took the other, Peter then pulled himself up Marty’s neck and sat on his head so he could tie that end of the banner to the tall pole an them Marty leaned across to the Gillian’s side so Peter could tie that one too,

“Oooh be careful up there” shouted Gloria

“Hakuna matata” laughed Peter “I spend most of my working day sat on Marty’s head to clean the windows on the tall buildings in Nairobi and I have never fallen off yet”

Once the banner was up the four friends stood back to admire their handiwork

“The stall is looking good, this should help to attract a lot of customer, we will be busy tonight” said Gloria

“Well you be careful and don’t work too hard” replied Peter “you have to take care of yourself and our little baby, it wont be long now before he or she makes an appearance”.

“Oh don’t fuss, I’ll be fine” smiled Gloria.

Peter then told the other that he has to go back to his window cleaning yard to some work in his office and that he see them all later on that night.

Marty decided to stay in Uhuru Park and wait for the others to arrive.

“Be sure your back before midnight to see the New Year in” he said to Peter.

“I will be” replied Peter before giving Gloria a kiss goodbye and jumping into his van and driving off

It didn’t take long for quite a big crowd to start gathering in Uhuru Park for the new years festivities and Gloria and Gillian were soon very busy selling there lovely cold smoothies to the thirsty revellers.

Marty decided to leave Gloria and Gillian to get along with running their stall and went off for a wander around the park to see what other fun things were taking place.

After a little while Gillian noticed that Gloria wasn’t looking too well.

“Gloria, are you okay?” asked Gillian

“No, I don’t feel to well and I am getting some pains in my tummy” replied Gloria

“Well you had better sit down and take a rest, you have probably over done it today, leave the stall to me for a while”

“But we are too busy, you can’t run the stall on your own” replied Gloria before letting out a load groan and almost bending double in pain.

“Gillian, Gillian, I think the baby is coming early” gasped Gloria, “you need to get Peter to take to the hospital”

“I will get Marty to go for Peter, he rides that motorcycle so fast it wont take him long to get to Peter’s yard”

Gillian looked around the park and could clearly see Marty in the distance as his head and neck was sticking out way above the crowd, but with musicians playing, people dancing and children running around, the park was very noisy and no matter how loud Gillian shouted she couldn’t make Marty hear her.

“Oooh Hurry up please Gillian” groaned Gloria.

Gillian then had an idea and she bent down and pick up a mango from the box of fruit that was waiting to be made into smoothies, and with one mighty swing of her neck she threw the mango high into the sky.

The mango flew through the air above the head of the crowd and landed with a mighty thud against the back of Marty’s head

“Ouch! Who threw that?” said Marty with a very cross look on his face.

He looked around to see Gillian frantically beckoning him to come over.

Marty realised something must be wrong so he quickly ran across to the smoothie stall, making the crowd of people scatter out of the way, as they didn’t want to be kicked by a large giraffe.

“What’s the matter?” he gasped as he arrived at the stall

“Gloria is having her baby you must go and get Peter quick” said Gillian “Oh and the go to Emmanuelle’s farm and get Moira, I am going to need some help on the stall tonight”

“Oooh please hurry Marty, I need to get to the hospital”. Groaned Gloria.

Marty jumped on to his motorcycle and weaved his way through the crowd out of the park on to road, where he pulled back his throttle and accelerated at great pace and was soon whizzing through Nairobi’s busy streets.

At the windows cleaners’ yard Marty didn’t bother to get off his motorcycle instead he just shouted as loud as he could at Peter

“You have to get back to the park and get Gloria to the hospital the baby is coming!!”

Peter stood there looking stunned

“Haya! haraka haraka” (!Come on hurry hurry!”) shouted Marty and Peter snapped himself together and grabbed! his keys and headed toward his van, Marty turned his motorcycle round and shot off to fetch Emmanuelle and Moira.

Back in the park a big queue of people wanting smoothies was gathering at the stall as Gillian was struggling to serve them all on her own and look after Gloria at the same time.

“I wish Peter and Marty would hurry up and come back” sobbed Gloria

“They will be here soon” soothed Gillian.

The all of sudden a loud beeping of a horn was heart and Gillian looked around to see Peter’s van slowly making its way through the crowd flanked by Marty on his motorcycle on one side and Emmanuelle and Moira on Emmanuelle’s motorcycle on the other side.

“They’re here they’re here” shouted Gillian

Peter parked the van and jumped out at and ran to Gloria

“Oh my love, are you ok?” he said giving Gloria a big hug and a kiss.

“Yes but we have to get the hospital quickly” replied Gloria

Gillian and Moira helped Gloria into the van and made Peter promise to look after her and to phone them as soon as there was news”

“Bahati nzuri” (“Good luck”) they al shouted as Peter and Gloria drove away.

“Its going to be a long evening waiting to hear any news” sighed Gillian before she went back to serving the queue of thirsty party goers at the smoothies stall.

“We will soon get the queue down with two of us working together “smiled Moira.

Later in the evening Victor (the trainee window cleaner) joined the others in the park to enjoy the new years festivities, but what they al really wanted was to hear some news form Peter and Gloria.

As the time was nearing midnight the crowd fell silent as one of the announcers from one of main stages in the park started the count one down

10, 9, 8

With that a text message came through to Emmanuelle’s phone which he read out to the others excitedly

“Baby Martina Jilly Ngono born at 11:50 pm Mother and baby doing great”

“Yippee a baby girl” shouted Gillian and Moira

And with that the announcer shouted “midnight! Heri ya mwaka mpya” (“happy new year”) and with a big bang, spectacular fireworks started to fill the night sky

“Well” said Gillian to Marty “that was an exciting end to an exciting year”

“Yes” replied Marty “and I bet 2013 will bring a lot more exciting adventures for

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The adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes story 7 Mary and Gillian Venitian adventure

2012-12-08T01:22:00.002-08:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 7 Marty and Gillian’s Venetian adventure

Marty has recently been working very hard and very long hours in his job as a window cleaner’s assistant, working for his boss and good friend Peter Ngono. As well as working hard on helping to clean all the windows in Nairobi, Marty has also been cleaning lorries and trucks in Mr Makuchi’s transport yard and helping Peter with his balloon safari business at weekends.

On top of this Gillian has also been working very hard on Gloria’s (Peter’s wife how is expecting their first baby) smoothie bar

So both Marty and Gillian were very happy when Peter and Gloria told them that the business was closing down for a week as everyone deserved a nice holiday. Victor the trainee window cleaner was also delighted with the news.

“You should take Gillian on one of your adventures, during your week off” Gloria told Marty.

“I have already thought of that” replied Marty and he turned to Gillian and said “how would you like to visit Venice in Italy” and he showed Gillian a travel magazine with pictures of Venice.

Gillian jumped for joy, and when a giraffe jumps they jump very high indeed this made Peter, Gloria and Victor all scatter in case she landed on them.

“That would be wonderful” cried Gillian “Venice looks so romantic, thank you Marty” and then she gave Marty a big kiss

“Oooh gross” moaned Victor which made everyone else laugh loudly.

Marty and Gillian then dashed off home to prepare for their great Venetian adventure.

The next morning as they arrived at the airport to catch their flight to Italy, Marty and Gillian were delighted to see that Peter, Gloria and Victor and also their good friends Emmanuelle (the farmer) and Moira (Emmanuelle’s girlfriend) had all turned up to wave them off.

“You have a wonderful time and bring me back something nice from Italy” said Gloria and she hugged Gillian’s neck

“And you be sure to look after yourself while I am gone, and don’t have that baby until I get back” replied Gillian

“Oh you don’t have to worry about that, I have still a few months to go yet” aid Gloria while rubbing her tummy with a very happy smile on her face

Marty and Gillian then left to catch their plane while their friends all shouted

“Kwaheri, kuwa na safari salama” (“Goodbye have a safe trip”) and waved them off.

It was a long flight to Marco Polo airport in Venice Italy, and Marty and Gillian were very pleased to get off the plane so they could stretch their long legs and necks.

“Mmm that’s better” mumbled Marty while Gillian squealed with excitement

“Oh I can’t believe I am in Italy the most romantic country in the world, this is so exciting”

“Yes” smiled Marty “we are sure to have an exciting adventure here”

After Marty and Gillian had booked into their hotel and unpacked their cases they set off to explore Venice.

Marty and Gillian walked down the footpath alongside the Canal Grande (Grand Canal) looking at the wonderful houses and were amazed by the small side canals where the water goes right up to the houses.

“Wow” exclaimed Gillian “you can only get to those houses by boat”

Then as some gondolas floated past Gillian got very excited, “can we go for a ride in one those?” she asked Marty.

“Of course we can, but first let’s go and get something to eat” replied Marty.

Marty and Gillian then when to a very nice restaurant in Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s square). The restaurant serves some of the most wonderful pasta dishes and pizzas but of course Marty and Gillian don’t eat this sort of food, so they just ordered two large plates of twigs and leafs.

After they had finished their lunch Marty and Gillian headed off to find somewhere that they could book a ride on a gondola.

They saw a spot on the Canal Grande where a lot of gondolas were moored and thought that this must be the pace where you can book a ride through the canals of Venice.

As they walked towards the gondolas Marty and Gillian watched as a lady carrying a baby climbed into a gondola when suddenly she slipped, dropped the baby into the gondola and fell into the canal, breaking the gondolas mooring as she fell.

As the lady splashed around in the water the gondola with the baby in it started to drift away down the canal.

“Aiuto! Help me! E aiutare il mio bambino” (“Help! Help me! And help my baby”) shouted the lady.

“I’ll get the baby” shouted Gillian and she ran off down the footpath to the nearest bridge across the canal.

While Gillian ran after the gondola, Marty stretched his long neck forward towards the canal and grabbed the ladies coat with his teeth and pulled her out of the canal.”

“Grazie! Grazie” (“Thank you! Thank you”) exclaimed the lady "Ma dove è il bambino? Aiutate il mio bambino” (“but where is my baby? Please help my baby”)

“Look” shouted a bystander “the other giraffe is going to save the baby”

Everyone looked where the bystander was pointing and there on the bridge stood Gillian and she was leaning right over so here head was nearly in the water and as the gondola with the baby in it passed underneath, Gillian gently grabbed the baby with her teeth and lifted her safely onto the bridge.

“Oh Grazie! Grazie” (“thank you thank you”) cried the lady as she ran to give hold her baby

Quite a crowd had gathered and they were all shouting that Marty and Gillian were heroes. But the gondolier was worried about his boat that was still drifting unmanned along the canal.

Marty knelt down and told the gondolier to jump on his back and off they ran after the gondola. With Marty’s long legs they soon got ahead of the gondola and they ran to another bridge across the canal and as the gondola passed underneath the gondolier leapt off Marty’s back into the gondola.

The gondoliers was so delighted with getting his gondola back that he offered to take Marty and Gillian for a free moonlight ride around Venice in his gondola, and the baby’s mother told Marty and Gillian that her husband runs the best restaurant in Venice and when they have finished their gondola trip they will be guests of honour at the restaurant and can have free food and drinks all night.

That evening Marty and Gillian had a wonderful gondola ride through the canals of Venice with the stars lighting up the night sky, Gillian cuddled into Marty on the boat and thought that this is the most romantic thing she has ever done.

Later as they were eating there dinner in the ladies husbands restaurant while being serenaded by a man playing a violin Gillian whispered into Marty’s ear

“Asante sana for bringing me to this most wonderful place, I do love being married too you Marty, because there always seems to be one adventure after another for

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2012-12-05T22:15:00.002-08:00

No new adventures for a while, but watch out this Saturday (08/12/2012) for the next episode in the further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes, when Marty and Gillian take a trip to Venice

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian Giraffe Story 6 Marty and Gillian and the lost giraffe

2012-10-12T23:58:00.004-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 6 Marty and Gillian and the lost giraffe

It’s a lovely sunny Saturday morning in Nairobi and Marty and Gillian are out in their garden planting some trees.

“When these grow nice and tall they will provide us lots of twigs and leafs to eat” Said Marty

“Hmm I can’t wait, home grown food, you just can’t beat it” replied Gillian

All of a sudden a large white necked raven landed in their garden, carrying and envelope in his mouth.

The white necked raven put the envelope down and squawked

“Jambo, jina langu ni Wilfred na nina ujumbe muhimu kwa Marty twiga pikipiki” (“hello, my name is Wilfred and I have an important message for Marty the Motorcycling giraffe”)

“I am Marty the motorcycling giraffe” said Marty and he bent forward and picked the envelope up.

Marty opened the envelope and started to read the letter and as he did Marty started to go quite white (which is not a good colour for a giraffe) as the colour ran out of his face with shock.

“What is it Marty? Is it bad news?” asked Gillian

“Yes” replied Marty “it’s from Geraldine (Marty’s sister), little Georgina (Marty’s niece) was told off for being naughty and now she has run away and she has been missing all night, and there are a lot of scary lions in the Masai Mara”

“Oh no we must go to the Masai Mara as quickly as possible and help find her”

“I have to go now” squawked Wilfred the white necked raven and he flew off into the sky

“Asante sana, kwahari” (“thank you and goodbye”) shouted Marty after him

“Come on lets go” shouted Marty as he leapt onto his motorcycle, so Gillian got on her motor scooter and off they zoomed towards the Masai Mara

Because Marty and Gillian ride their motorcycles so very fast, they soon arrived at the part of the Masai Mara where Marty’s relatives live.

The giraffes all looked very worried and Geraldine was crying and George (Geraldine’s husband and Marty’s brother in law) was trying to console her.

Gary (Marty’s brother) told them that Georgina has been missing since late last night and they searched everywhere for her

“She’s only a little giraffe and she has been out all night and the Masai Mara is so big with lots of scary lions in, we might never find her” wailed Geraldine

“Don’t worry love, Georgina is my little girl and I will find and I won’t let any scary lion get near her” said George

The giraffes agreed to split up and go looking for Georgina in different direction, but after couple of hours when they still haven’t found her, the giraffes met back at their usual spot.

“What are we going to do” asked a worried George.

“I have an idea” said Marty “remember my friend Peter had an idea to run air balloon safaris, well he still has his air balloon and if I go and ask him I am sure he will bring it here and fly above the ground and he may be able to spot Georgina from here”

“Great idea, now hurry up and fetch Peter” shouted Geraldine

So Marty jumped on his motorcycle and zoomed off back towards the big city of Nairobi.

The other giraffes waited anxiously and were delighted when it wasn’t that long before they heard the roar of Marty’s motorcycle approaching, following shortly behind by Peter, Gloria and Victor in Peter’s van

As soon as they arrived Peter and Victor go the hot air balloon out of the back of the hot air balloon and started to set it up.

Soon the balloon was fully inflated and Peter climbed into the basket.

“I’ll fly the balloon and tell Victor what I can see through our walkie talkie radios” said Peter

“You be careful in that balloon, lour baby will need his or her daddy when he or she arrives” said Gloria rubbing her tummy fondly.

The balloon started to rise into the air, and soon it was way above the giraffe’s head and looked like a tiny red dot on the clear blue Kenyan sky.

Everyone on the ground gathered round Victor’s walkie talkie radio listening for messages from Peter in the balloon. But sadly each message was just Peter saying that he hasn’t seen Georgina.

The suddenly with an excited crackle Peter shouted through the walkie talkie radio

“There she is, there she is!!! I can see her!! She is down past some trees beside a small river, she looks sad but she looks ok” but then he added “Oh no there are a bunch of hungry lions nearby, I’ll give you direction and you get hear as quick as possible”

Quick as a flash Victor jumped in the van and started to speed across the Masai Mara with George, Marty and Gary chasing on behind. Gillian and Geraldine stayed behind to look after Gloria as the Masai Mara is no place for a pregnant lady to be left on her own.

Victor weaved through the trees with the giraffes not far behind them and they quickly arrived at the little stream.

George saw the hungry lions and raced towards them kicking out his long legs and snorting

“You keep away from my little girl” and with Marty and Gary just behind them, the lions beat a hasty retreat, they will have to look somewhere else for their dinner today.

“Daddy, uncle Marty, Uncle Gary” shouted Georgina and she ran to the other giraffes “I’m sorry I was naughty and I am sorry I ran away, I was so scared”

“That’s alight little one” said George “you’re safe and sound now, let’s get you home to your mum”

By the time they got back to the giraffes; area Peter had already landed the air balloon and was starting to pack up.

Geraldine and Georgina were delighted to see each other and gave each other a big neck rub (which is the way giraffes hug)

Once Peter was fully packed up he told the giraffes that it was time for him, Gloria and Victor to go home.

“Asante sana for helping find my little girl” shouted Geraldine as they drove.

Marty and Gillian then said that they have to go and said kwahari (goodbye) to the giraffes and Marty said to Georgina

“You behave yourself now Georgina and stay with your family”

“I will I promise Uncle Marty” said Georgina

Marty and Gillian then got on their motorcycles and rode away towards their home in Nairobi to see what other adventures lie in store for

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The further adventures of Marty and Gillian stroy 5 Marty and Gillian's new home

2012-09-30T00:41:00.001-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 5. Marty and Gillian’s’ new home.

Marty and Gillian are very busy today, as they are packing up everything they own in their little house in Nairobi as they are about to move to a new bigger house on the outskirts of town.

Marty was feeling a little sad as he loved his little house, but since he and Gillian got married, Marty had had to admit that the house just wasn’t big enough for two giraffes!!

The doorbell rang and Marty opened the door to find all their best friends, Peter and Gloria, Emmanuelle and Moira and Victor had turned up to help them move.

“I thought the move might be a little easier if we all helped” said Peter who added “and Mr Makushi is bringing a van from his yard to move all you belongings to your new house.”

The friends all worked very hard and soon all Marty and Gillian’s belongings were neatly packed into boxes and Mr Makushi arrived with a large van.

“Jambo everyone” shouted Mr Makushi “are you ready to load the van up”

Mr Makushi climbed into the back of the van and the rest, except for Gloria who is expecting baby soon and cannot lift heavy boxes, formed a line from the house to the van and passed all the boxes along to Mr Makushi who carefully loaded all the boxes into the van.

It didn’t take long to load the Mr Makushi’s van and what didn’t fit was put into Peter’s small van

So they all set off in a convoy, with Marty up front on his motorcycle followed by Emmanuelle and Moira on Emmanuelle’s motorcycle, Gillian on her lovely pink motor scooter and finally the two vans.

After a short drive they arrived at Marty and Gillian’s new house. It is a much bigger than their old house and had a lovely garden and a stream that ran through a gully on the side of the road.

Just as they arrived a thunder storm started and they had to unload all the boxes very quickly in the pouring rain, but because they were all working so hard it didn’t take them long to get everything unloaded.

Gloria made everyone some lovely smoothies to cool themselves down after working so hard.

“Asante sana for the loan of the van” Marty said to Mr Makushi “ when we have finished unpacking we care going to have a little house warming party with lovely smoothies and some nice food to eat, you are more than welcome to stay and join in”

“Oh I’m too old for parties, and any way I have to get the van back to its yard” laughed Mr Makushi.

Mr Makushi climbed into the van and shouted “kwahari everyone see you at my yard next Friday” (Marty, Peter and Victor have a contract to clean Mr Makushi’s lorries and vans every Friday afternoon) and started to drive out of Marty’s garden.

But all of a sudden the van skidded on the wet surface and slipped down the gulley into the stream.

Every came running, to see if Mr Makushi was ok.

Mr Makushi climbed out of the van and shouted to everyone that he wasn’t hurt but will need a hand getting out of the gulley, so Marty go down on his front knees and leaned into the gully, Mr Makushi grabbed hold of Marty’s little horns and Marty pulled him out of the gulley.

“Now I have got to try get the van out of the gulley, I need that for a job tomorrow” said Mr Makushi with a worried look on his face, adding “Marty will you give me a lift back to the yard on your motorcycle and I will fetch a bigger van and some rope try and pull the van out”

So Marty and Mr Maksuhi headed off to the yard to get the bigger van, while the others started to unpack the boxes.

It didn’t take long to fetch the bigger vehicle ( a large truck with flatbed trailer), and Mr Makushi lined up the back of the truck up against the side of the gully and Peter tied one end of the rope to the bigger truck and Marty leaned into the gulley to tie the other end to the van. Mr Makushi turned on the engine of the big truck and slowly started to move it forward and the van started to rise up the gulley, but then there was a loud screech as the truck tyres stared to spin wildly in the muddy yard and van fell back into the gully and the truck started to slip towards the gully as well. Mr Makushi managed to stop the truck before it fell.

“This isn’t going to work” said Mr Makushi “and I can't afford to lose another vehicle down that gulley”

“I have an idea” said Marty and he whispered something in Mr Makushi’s ear,

“That might just work” replied Mr Makushi

“Come on lets go then” shouted Marty and jumped on to his motorcycle “we won’t be long” he shouted back to the others.

“You better not be just trying to get out of doing the unpacking” Gillian shouted at Marty and this made everyone laugh.

Marty rode off with Mr Makushi following behind in the flatbed truck.

The unpacking was just about finished when Marty and Mr Makushi arrived back at the house.

“Look who I have brought to help” shouted Marty pointing to the back off the flatbed truck, where a very nervous looking elephant was sat.

“Jambo Edward” shouted Gillian “I have not seen you for a long time”

“I have never been to the city before and I have never been on a truck either” trumpeted Edward “and it’s all a bit scary”

“We will make sure you’re ok” replied Marty and we are very glad that you could come and help”.

Edward the climbed down into the gully and got behind the van, he put his head down against the back of the van with his tusks and trunk under the the bottom of the van and with a mighty trumpet he used his powerful muscles to slowly push the van out of the gulley and back onto the road”

“Hooray kwa Edward, nguvu zake mashujaa imekuokoa siku” (“hooray for Edward, his mighty strength has saved the day), shouted everyone.

This made Edward feel quite embarrassed

“I am just glad I could help” he mumbled

“Are you going to stay for the house warming part?” Gillian asked Edward

“I don’t think so” replied Edward “I don’t really like being in the city, so if Mr Makushi doesn’t mind I would like to go back home to the Masai Mara now”

“I will be happy to take you home, jump back on the truck” said Mr Makushi who added that he will be back first thing in the morning to pick up the van

Everyone shouted “kwahari” and waved Mr Makushi and Edward goodbye.

“And now it is time to start the party” shouted Moira

Marty smiled and turned to Gillian and said

“I think we are going to be very happy in our new home and we are sure to be able find lots more adventures for

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Further adventures of Marty and Gillian story 4 Marty and the big sharks

2012-09-01T01:01:00.002-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 4 Marty and the big sharks

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes have decided to take a few days of from their jobs, Marty works for Peter Ngono as a window cleaner’s assistant and Gillian works for Peter’s wife Gloria on a smoothie bar in Nairobi, Kenya in East Africa.

They had decided to take a little holiday to the very bottom of Africa and visit the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

Marty and Gillian caught an aeroplane from Nairobi to Cape Town, it was quite a long flight and they wee very pleased when they landed so they could get of the aeroplane, as they were both feeling quite cramped as there is no a lot of room on a an aeroplane for a giraffe’s long legs and neck.

Once they got through customs Marty and Gillian headed off to tour Cape Town.

Their first port of call was of course a motorcycle hire shop, where hey hired a large motorcycle and after a quick ride around the city’s streets they headed out towards the coast at the Cape of Good Hope.

It was a lovely ride down to the coast and they finally arrived and stopped at the top of a cliff.

Marty and Gillian got off the motorcycle and stared out across the Atlantic Ocean.

“Wow” said Marty “that is a lovely view”

“Yes” replied Gillian “this would be a good place to set up camp for night”

So Marty got his small tent out of the back of the motorcycle and set it up on the edge of the cliff. And then went off to collect a big pile of twigs and leafs.

Marty and Gillian then sat on a cliff holding hoofs, chatting, eating the twigs and leafs as they watched the sun go down over the horizon of the ocean

As it was now dark Marty and Gillian got into their tent to sleep the night, but because they are so tall they both had to lie down with there heads and necks sticking out of the tent.

Gillian looked up at the stars in the night’s sky and whispered in Marty’s ear

“The stars looks so beautiful like diamonds twinkling in the sky, this is a very romantic adventure you have brought me on” and she gave Marty a big kiss, this made Marty smile.

In the morning Marty fetched some more twigs and leafs for their breakfast.

After breakfast Marty suggested that they go down to the beach to see what adventure they could find there.

As they walked along the beach they came across two men who seemed to be selling boa trips.

“Jambo” said Marty to the men “I am Marty the motorcycling giraffe, and this is Gillian my wife we are here on holiday form Kenya”

“Well hello” replied one of the men “I am Hector and this is Michael, and I must say we have a lot of giraffes in South Africa but I have never heard of a motorcycling giraffe, do all giraffes in Kenya ride motorcycles”.

“No” laughed Marty “Gillian an I are the only ones”

The men then told Marty and Gillian that they were selling boat trips out into the ocean where you can go cage diving to swim with great white sharks.

“Wow now that sounds like a great adventure” said Marty

“It sounds scary and dangerous” muttered Gillian.

Marty and Gillian agreed to go on the boat trip and Marty would do the cage diving but Gillian would just enjoy the boat trip.

A few minutes later they were both safely on the boat and heading put into the deep ocean. The sea was very rough and the big waves kept crashing into the boat make in rock about and everyone got on the boat got very wet.

“Wow this is very exciting” shouted Gillian

Soon they came to a calm bit of the Ocean. And Hector and Michael stopped the boat and downed the anchor.

“This is a good place to see sharks” said Hector.

Marty and Hector then put on wet suits (this is a very tough job for a giraffe) and then moved off the boat and climbed into the cage that hang from the side of the boat

“Kuwa makini Marty” (be careful Marty) exclaimed a rather nervous Gillian

“Hakuna Matata” laughed Marty in reply

With Hector and Marty safely in the cage Michael pressed the buttons to lower he cage into the ocean.

Marty and Hector were not under the water long before los of fish of all different sizes, shapes and colours came swimming up to the cage, then all of a sudden the fish swam away very quickly and a second later Marty could see why.

Two very large great white sharks swam into view and soon they became very interested in the cage. They swam right up to the bars showing their large teeth and scary dark eyes.

“I think they want to eat us” shouted Marty excitedly.

Soon it was time for Marty and Hector to go back to the boat so Michael raised the cage out of the ocean and Marty and Hector climbed back on to the boat.

“Wow that was an amazing adventure” shouted Marty as he pulled off his wet suit.

“I am just glad you are out safe and sound” smiled Gillian.

Hector then said that it was time to go back to the shore and he raised the anchor and took the wheel of the boat to turn it round to head back to land.

But as the boat turned to go hit side on by a very big wave that rocked the boat violently and suddenly a large splash was heard. Michael had been knocked over board

Michael tried to swim back to the boat but the wave had pushed the boat quite a ling way from where he had fallen in. And behind him two shark fins could be seen sticking out of the water.

“We have to get Michael out of the water quickly, or the sharks will have him for dinner” shouted Hector

They threw ropes to Michael and stretched out to get him, but they couldn’t reach Michael.

“I know” said Marty, “if I stand on the cage and stretch my neck I may be able to reach Michael”

“Good Idea” said Hector.

So Marty climbed onto the cage, but he didn’t feel very safe as it ricked about on the side of the boat

“Kuwa makini Marty” shouted Gillian

“Hold on to my tail” shouted Marty

So Gillian stretched her neck over the side of the boat to the cage and caught hold of Marty’s tail with her teeth. Marty then stretched his neck don into the ocean and grabbed Michael by the scruff of his neck and pulled him out of the water, just in time as on of the sharks leapt out of the water to try and bite.

Back on the boat Michael was very grateful to Marty and Gillian for saving him and told them that they could have a free boat trip any time they were in South Africa.

They soon got the boat back to the coast and it was soon time for Marty and Gillian to get back on their hired motorcycle and head back to Cape Town to cath an aeroplane back home to Nairobi in Kenya.

“Kwahari” shouted Marty and Gillian as they rode off towards Cape Town

“Well that was an exciting trip” exclaimed Marty, but I will be glad to get home to see what more adventures are in store for

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2012-08-10T23:46:00.000-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 3 A very busy day at for Gillian and Gloria at the Smoothie bar

Marty and Gillian (the motorcycling giraffes) are up and out of bed early this morning as they both have busy days ahead of them. Marty in his job as a window cleaner’s assistant and Gillian in her job at Gloria’s smoothie bar.

After a quick breakfast (twigs and leafs of course) they set out for work, Marty on his very fast motorcycle and Gillian on her pink motor scooter.

They rode together for a while, until Gillian reached Gloria’s smoothie store on the edge of Uhuru Park, Gillian stopped her scooter and waved to Marty as he rode off towards Peter’s window cleaning yard.

Gloria had already set up the store for the day and greeted Gillian with a big smile.

“Someone looks very pleased with themselves this morning” said Gillian

“Yes” said Gloria (who is expecting her first baby) “I felt the baby move for the first time this morning”

“Aww that’s wonderful” replied Gillian

“And not only that, I had a call from my friend William who is a safari guide and it would seem that the word has got around about a giraffe serving smoothies and now all the safari guides want to bring their tourists here for a smoothie before they take them out to the game reserves, we are going to be very busy” Gloria told Gillian

“That is exciting do you think we will be able to cope with all the extra work”

“I hope so” said Gloria “it would be nice to make this smoothie bar a really successful business, Peter would be very proud of me”

“Peter is all ready proud of you, especially with you expecting your first child together”

The first customers of the day started to arrive, most of them being Gloria and Gillian’s regular customers, busy Nairobi residents on their way to work. But it wasn’t long before the first bus load of tourists arrived.

All the tourists got very excited about trying all the lovely different exotic flavours of smoothie on sale and even more excited by being served by a giraffe. Many of the tourists asked t have their photographs taken while being served by Gillian.

“You becoming a bit of a superstar” laughed Gloria “perhaps we should charge for photographs as well as smoothie, we would be come very rich”

This made Gillian blush and laugh at the same time

All through the day the bus loads of tourists kept arriving with people coming form all over the world wanting to buy a smoothie and to be served by a giraffe.

Later in the afternoon Gloria called to Gillian that they might have a problem.

“Our regular customer will be finishing work soon and will want to buy smoothies on their way home and we are running out of fresh fruit to make the smoothies”

“Well I could ride my motor scooter to Emmanuelle’s farm and see what fruit he can sell me if you think this would help” offered Gillian

“Oh no” replied Gloria “I don’t think I could manage on my own, in fact I am feeling quite tired already”

Well you had better sit down and take a little rest then” said Gillian “and while your sitting down you should ring Peter and tell him to give Marty some time off from window cleaning to go to Emmanuelle’s farm to collect some fruit for us”

“Good idea” smiled Gloria and phoned Peter straight away.

As soon as Peter finished talking to Gloria he shouted to Marty,

“Marty, you have to take the rest of the day off and ride to Emmanuelle’s farm to collect some fruit for Gloria and Gillian, me and Victor will get the rest of the windows clean.

“Ok boss” shouted Marty and he put down the buckets of soapy water he was carrying and jumped on his motorcycle to head off to the farm.

Because his motorcycle goes so very fast it didn’t take Marty long before he arrived at Emmanuelle’s farm

“Jambo Emmanuel, habari gani” said Marty

“Nzuri sana” replied Emmanuel “Peter let me know you were coming and I have lots of bananas and mangos for you to collect, Gillian and Gloria should be able to make lots of smoothies with this lot.”

“I hope so” said Marty “they have become so busy they can’t keep up with demand”

“Mmm maybe I could help” said a voice from behind Marty.

Marty turned around to see Moira, Emmanuelle’s friend form Mombasa beach, smiling at him.

“Yes” shouted Emmanuelle “what a good idea, Moira is moving to the Nairobi area so that we can see more of each other and needs a job”.

“Well that’s great,” said Marty “you can come back with me and help out with the evening rush”

So Marty, Emmanuelle and Moira tied all the bananas and mangos to Marty’s motorcycle and the Marty go on the motorcycle with Moira sat behind him an off they went back to Nairobi

“Kwahari Emmanuelle” shouted Marty and Moira. Moira also blew Emmanuelle a little kiss that made him smile.

It wasn’t long before Marty and Moira arrived at the smoothie bar in Uhuru Park in Nairobi

"I have brought the fruit and also brought some extra help”

“Jambo Gillian and Gloria” said Moira as she waved from the back of Marty’s motorcycles.

Gloria and Gillian were delighted to see Moira again and soon all three of them were working hard making smoothies for the evening rush

The three ladies sold lots of smoothies during the evening rush hour and were quite exhausted by the time the last customer left, at about the same time Peter and Victor arrived in Peter’s van and just behind them Emmanuelle came roaring up on his motorcycle.

“Well the whole gangs here” smiled Gloria and we have just enough smoothies left for one each

So Marty, Gillian, Peter, Gloria , Victor, Emmanuelle and Moira all sat on the grass, in the late evening Nairobi sunshine drinking lovely ice cold smoothies and chatting about all the exciting things that were happening in their lives, especially Moira moving to the Nairobi area and what it will be like when Peter and Gloria’s baby arrives.

And Marty thought to himself that with all these good friend around them there is sure to be lots more adventures for

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes.

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian story 2 Alfred the angry antelope

2012-07-28T00:19:00.000-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffe

Story 2 Alfred the very angry antelope

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes have a few days off from work (Marty works as a window cleaners assistant in the big African city of Nairobi and Gillian works at her friends smoothie bar in Uhuru park also in Nairobi), so they have decided to ride to the Masai Mara to visit their family and friends there.

So Mary climbed on his Motorcycle and Gillian sat upon her pink motor scooter, as they got ready for the trip.

“Now don’t you whizz off too quickly and leave me behind” said Gillian “you know my little scooter won’t go as fast as your motorcycle”

“I promise I will ride alongside you all the way” laughed Marty. “You’d better” replied Gillian rather sternly.

And off they went, riding through the busy streets of Nairobi, until they reached the outskirts of town and then out into the long dusty roads through the Kenyan countryside towards the Masai Mara

Despite having to go a little slower than normal it didn’t take then that long before they arrived at the Masai Mara and to the spot where the other giraffes liked to go to eat the tasty leaves at the top of the tallest trees.

Marty and Gillian parked their motorcycles under a large baobab tree, so they would stay nice and sheltered from the hot sun and started walking towards the other giraffes. Quite near the giraffes stood a herd of antelopes, but one antelope was not with the rest of the heard instead he was stood in between two umbrella acacia trees, moaning and mumbling to himself and occasionally charging forward and smashing his head into one or other of the trees.

“Are you alright? You’ll give yourself a headache if you keep doing that” asked Gillian as they walked past the antelope.

“Hmmph” replied the antelope grumpily “what’s it to you, mind your own business”

“Hey!!” shouted Marty “don’t speak to my wife like that, she is only trying to help”

“Just leave me alone” snapped back the antelope

“Come one Marty lets go and leave this misery guts alone” said Gillian

So they wandered away towards there friends and family leaving the antelope to carry on angrily banging his head against the tree over and over again.

The giraffes were delighted to see Marty and Gillian, especially little Georgina who was always excited to see her uncle Marty.

“I see you met Alfred the very angry antelope” sighed Geraldine (Marty’s sister)

“Yes, what is the matter with him?” replied Gillian

“Oh you should just ignore him. Every one else does, even the other antelopes do. Alfred is always in a bad mood” exclaimed Gary (Marty’s brother).

Marty and Gillian spent the rest of the day with George, Geraldine, Gary and of course little Georgina giraffes, just having a good chat while eating the leaves and twigs from the top of the tall trees.

The Masai Mara giraffes were very interested in hearing about Marty and Gillian’ honeymoon and about how Gillian was settling into living in the big city as well as her new job in Gloria’ smoothie bar.

“I hope that brother of mine is treating you well” said Geraldine.

“Oh he has been lovely” replied Gillian with a coy smile.

Gillian then called to Marty (who was playing some silly games with little Georgina) that it was getting late and they had better think about heading off back home to Nairobi.

“Kwahari, come back and visit soon” Shouted Gary, George, Geraldine and Georgina, as Marty ad Gillian walked off towards the Baobab tree where they parked their motorcycle and past Alfred the angry antelope who was still in the same place, and still muttering angrily and slamming his head against a tree over and over again

“You’ will really give yourself a nasty headache, if you don’t stop doing that” said Gillian softly

Alfred stopped banging his head against the tree and looked up at Gillian and said

“You would bang your head with frustration to, if you were stuck here being a boring antelope all day. I mean we just stand around eating grass, looking out for lions and showing off to human tourists”

“And you don’t like doing that?” replied Gillian

“Well its so boring” explained Alfred “I want to exciting things, like sub aqua diving”

“Sub aqua diving?” asked Gillian

“Yes I read about it a magazine that a tourist dropped out of a bus, it looks so much fun, but antelopes can’t do things like that! It’s not fair” replied Alfred who then turned away to start banging his head against the tree again.

“You know you could do sub aqua diving if you really wanted to” said Marty

On hearing this Alfred stopped banging his head against the tree looked up suspiciously and said

“How can an antelope go sub aqua diving”

“Well” replied Marty “Gillian and I are giraffes and we ride motorcycles and live in the big city. And I have had adventures all very the world and have met a Kayaking monkey in Zambia, a paragliding llama in Peru, a snow boarding Yak in the Himalayas , a motorcycling kangaroo in Australia and a trucking moose in Canada. If these animals can follow their dreams so can you”

“That’s all very well but I don’t even live near a river, lake or the sea, how can I go sub aqua diving” said a very sad looking Alfred

“We still have a few days before we need to go back to work” said Gillian “if you get on the back of Marty’s motorcycle we could take you to Mombasa beach, where you could learn to sub aqua dive”

“Well I could, but I have never been on a motorcycle before” replied Alfred

“You’ve never sub aqua dived before, come on jump on there’s a first time for everything” laughed Marty

“OK I will do it” shouted Alfred, and he climbed onto the back of Marty’s motorcycle.

“Hang on tight I go pretty fast” said Marty as they started to ride away form the Masai Mara with Gillian following behind on her pink Motor scooter

It was a long ride to Mombasa beach and as it was very dark they only had the bright lights of the motorcycles headlamps and the stars to see by. On arriving at Mombasa all three of them were quite tired so they parked the motorcycles and walked down to the each where they settled down for a little sleep under a coconut tree,

When they woke up the beach was quite busy will lots of tourists sunbathing on the beautiful whites sands and swimming in the deep blue ocean.

“Come on” said Marty “if we walk along the beach we should be able to find Sammy the sub aqua man”

So Marty, Gillian and Alfred stared to walk along the beach ait it dint take long before they came across a rather glum looking Sammy

“Jambo Sammy habari gani?” (“Hello Sammy how are you?”)

“Jambo Marty, I have not see you for a long time” replied Sammy who added “my business is not doing so well, all the tourists seem to ant to do is lie on the beach or splash in the sea, no one seems to want to learn to go diving these days”.

“Well I have brought a customer for you” said Marty and introduced Alfred to Sammy and told him all about Alfred’s dream to become a sub aqua diving antelope.

“Well I can teach you” said Sammy

The sub aqua lesson seemed to go on for a long time, and at last Sammy turned to Alfred and said

“Right now it time for you go diving”

This made Alfred very happy and he quickly climbed into Sammy’s boat and off they went to do some diving in the deep ocean.

Alfred dived into and swam down to the coral reef, where he cloud see all sorts of different fish

“This is so wonderful” thought Alfred to himself.

Alfred and Sammy stayed in the water for hours, but eventually it was time to go back to the beach, so they climbed back into the boat and set off for the shore.

As they reached the beach, Sammy saw that there was a large crowd standing by his sub aqua store, so he quickly tied up his boat and ran to his store.

“What’s going on” asked Sammy

“Well” replied Marty “all these people were amazed to see an antelope in sub aqua gear, that they all watched you two go diving and it looked like so much fun, that they all want to have a go”

“Well that’s marvellous” stated Sammy “but I can’t teach al these people all on my own”

“I can help” shouted Alfred “now that I can dive, I don't really want to go back to the Masai Mara, I would rather stay here and work for you”

“Well then you are hired” laughed Sammy

Alfred turned to Marty and Gilliam and said

“Asanta sana Marty asante sana Gillian, I am so happy that you showed me dreams can come true, and now I don’t have to be Alfred the angry antelope anymore, I am now Alfred the (sub) aqua diving antelope”

This made everyone laugh.

“Its time for me and Gillian to head back to Nairobi, kwahari everyone” said Marty and he and Gillian walked off down the beach to their motorcycle and motor scooter, climbed on and started the long ride back to Nairobi while wondering what more adventures might lie in store for

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes.

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes Story 1 Gillian’s new pink scooter

2012-07-14T00:24:00.001-07:00

The further adventures of Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes

Story 1 Gillian’s new pink scooter

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes, have recently come back to their little house in Nairobi after being away on their honeymoon.

Gillian is very happy to be married to Marty and she loves the little house in Nairobi, but today she is feeling a little blue (which is a very funny colour for a giraffe)

“You look a little sad, is everything ok?” asked Marty

“Oh yes Marty everything is just wonderful” replied Gillian with a sigh “its just I am feeling a little home sick, I think I am going to miss the Masai Mara a lot. I am also a bit worried that I will get lonely in the house during the day while you are at work”.

“Well why don’t you come to work with me today? I am sure Peter won’t mind and then we can think of something to help stop you feeling lonely and homesick”

So Gillian climbed on the back of Marty’s motorcycle and off they road through the busy streets of Nairobi until they arrived Peter’s window cleaning yard.

At the yard Victor (the trainee window cleaner) was leaning against the locked gate of the yard.

“Jambo Marty, Jambo Gillian, welcome back to Nairobi” said Victor before telling Marty that Peter hasn’t arrived yet and that they were locked out of the yard.

“Its not like Peter to be late for work, I hope everything is ok” exclaimed Marty.

“Here he is now” shouted Victor as Peter pulled up in his van with Gloria

Peter and Gloria climbed out of the van and they both had very big smiles on their faces.

“You too look really happy” said Marty who then added “it’s unusual to se you at the yard Gloria are you not busy at your smoothie bar today?”

Marty then told Peter that he had brought Gillian to work today as she was feeling a little lonely while he as at work.

“Well! I could do with some help at my smoothie bar; you could come and work with me during the day, because soon I am going to need all the help I can get” Smiled Gloria while rubbing her tummy.

“Oh wow!!! That’s wonderful news” shouted Gillian excitedly and she gave Gloria a big hug and added “congratulations”

Marty and Victor looked very confused and Marty asked “congratulations? For what?”

This made Gillian, Gloria and Peter laugh very loudly indeed.

“Gloria is going to have a baby, you fool” said Gillian to Marty.

“Yes I am going to be a Daddy” added Peter

The friends all then hugged each other and started to talk very excitedly about the baby and Gillian’s new job at the smoothie bar.

But now it was time for work so Gloria and Gillian set off for the smoothie bar, still talking about Gloria’s thrilling news, and Marty, Peter and Victor loaded their window cleaning equipment into Peter’s van and set off to do a days work cleaning the windows in Nairobi city centre.

At lunch time Marty, Peter and Victor stopped work to take a break.

“While you eat your sandwiches, I am just going to pop to the motorcycle dealers, I’ll be back soon” said Marty to the others.

“Are you after a new motorcycle then Marty?” queried Peter.

“You’ll soon see” laughed Marty as he walked away

Very soon Marty returned to work with a very sly smile on his face.

“What are you up to Marty?” enquired Peter “you have a very secretive look on your face”

“I have just arranged a nice surprise for Gillian that’s all, its being delivered to the yard this afternoon you will see it when we have finished work.” Replied Marty

The three friends worked very hard al afternoon in the very hot African sunshine, but they got all the widows nice and clean and soon it as time to pack and go back to the yard.

“I am quite intrigued to see what Marty has got for Gillian” exclaimed Victor

But Marty just sat there quietly with a sly smile on his face.

As they pulled into the yard, they saw Marty’s surprise present, a beautiful new bright pink motor scooter.

“Wow is this for Gillian she is going to love it” said Peter

“I hope so” replied Marty “She will need her own transport if she is going to work in Gloria’s smoothie bar and I also thought she could use it to visit the other giraffes back in the Masai Mara”

Peter then got a large sheet out of the yard to cover the scooter with

“We don’t want to spoil Gillian’s surprise” he explained.

Peter, Victor and Marty got to work on tidying the yard and putting all their work equipment away as they waited for Gloria and Gillian to turn up.

Just as they finished Gillian and Gloria arrived

“Did you have a nice day at the Smoothie bar” asked Marty

“Yes” replied Gillian “I think I am going to enjoy working for Gloria

“Well you will need some transport to get to work each day” exclaimed Marty and then he pulled on the sheet covering the scooter and shouted “Mshangao!” (“Surprise”)

“Oh is this for me” squealed Gillian “oh asante sana Marty its lovely” she then gave Marty a big kiss that made him very happy

“You will be able to use it to visit your family in the Masai Mara as well” said Marty

“Yes and I can also go out motorcycling with you Marty, because together we are sure to find lots of adventures for

Marty and Gillian the motorcycling giraffes.

Kevin the Kayaking Monkey’s cracking Canadian Adventure

2012-06-23T00:28:00.002-07:00

Kevin the Kayaking Monkey’s cracking Canadian Adventure

Kevin is a monkey who lives on the Zambezi River in Zambia Kenya near the great Victoria Falls. But today Kevin has something even more exciting than kayaking in Zambezi River, because today Kevin is catching an aeroplane to Canada where he is going to go Kayaking on the Chilliwack River in British Columbia with a group of people from the Chilliwack tribe of North American natives

The trip had been arranged by Kevin’s friend Tory the trucking Moose, who he had met when he had attended their mutual friend, Marty the motorcycling giraffe’s wedding in Kenya.

This will be the first time Kevin has been outside of Africa and he is so excited that he can hardly stand still for a second., and he was really pleased that at last it was time for him to catch a train to the airport in Lusaka the capital city of Zambia.

A Kevin sat down in his seat he started to feel a little nervous he had never been in an aeroplane and he wasn’t sure if monkeys were really meant to fly, but a very nice air stewardess spotted he was nervous an took some time to talk to him about the lovely flights she had been on and what a wonderful time he was going to have in Canada, this helped Kevin to relax and soon he was sitting back calmly in his seat looking out of the aeroplanes window and watching the ground rapidly disappear below him as the aeroplane took off and flew higher and higher into the skies.

Kevin was so excited by the flight that he hadn’t noticed the time go by and he was quite surprised when the pilot informed everyone to put on their seat belts and prepare for landing in Vancouver airport in Canada

As he got off the plane Kevin was very pleased to see his friend Troy the Trucking moose waiting for him

“Howdy Kevin, welcome to Canada” said Troy

“Hello Troy” replied Kevin “its great to be hear and I can’t wait to meet the Chilliwack people and go kayaking in their River.”

“Well jump in the cab of my truck and we will set off for Chilliwack river then” laughed Troy

Troy’s truck is very large and Kevin could hardly see above the trucks dashboard and felt quite small sat next to Troy, who is a very big and strong Moose.

Troy handled he trucks big steering wheel like it was a small toy and soon they arrived at the banks of the Chilliwack River.

Two North American natives all dressed in their traditional clothing came to greet Kevin and Troy.

“Hello Troy” said one of the Chilliwack “is this your friend from Africa that you were telling us all about?”

“Hello Chief Shining sun, this is my good friend Kevin he kayaking monkey, he has come all the way from Zambia in Africa to go kayaking on the Chilliwack river with you and your people.”

“Welcome my friend” said Chief Shinning Sun to Kevin “we have quite a special trip arranged for you. You are to join a small group of the Chilliwack people to kayak down the river and into Lake Chilliwack, where we can do some fishing; you will find it a very exciting trip through our beautiful country side”

“Oh I can’t wait “shouted Kevin excitedly

The Chilliwack people had brought a special kayak for Kevin, who was covered in traditional paintings and art work, Kevin thought it looked very grand indeed. And quickly jumped in and shouted to the others

“Come on then lets go, you lead and I will follow”.

So the kayakers started off down the river and through the beautiful countryside, as the river wound its way trough the valley with the large mountains on each, giving spectacular reflections of themselves in the cool blue waters of the Chilliwack River, Kevin thought that Canada is a wonderful country to go kayaking in.

Very quickly the small group of kayakers started to build up a good speed along the river, and although it is quite a long way down the river it didn’t take them long to reach Lake Chilliwack

As the kayakers flowed with the river into the lake, Kevin couldn’t believe his eyes as the river widen into a huge deep blue expanse of water with the sun glistening off its surface.

“Now this is really special” chortled Kevin with joy.

After a few hours kayaking around and fihsing in the lake the small group moored their kayaks at the side of the lake where they were joined by Troy who had driven his truck to join them.

Chief Shinning Sun then told Troy and Kevin that they were going to have a special dinner in his and Kevin’s honour and that they were going to light a fire and cook the fish, they had caught in the lake, in a traditional Chilliwack style.

Although Kevin was delighted to have such an honour betrothed on him, he looked a bit worried because he doesn’t really eat that type off food.

Troy saw Kevin looking concerned and leaned forward and whispered in his ear.

“Don’t worry Kevin, I have told Chief Shinning Sun that monkeys don’t eat that sort of food and on my truck I have got lots and lots of bananas for you and lovely piles of hay for me to eat”

Kevin Tory and the Chilliwack natives had a lovely time eating and chatting through the night around a large camp fire, with just the stars to brighten up the night’s sky.

As the sun rose they were still awake and still talking, Kevin was fascinated by the Chilliwack natives’ stories of their ancestors but unfortunately he had to say his goodbyes and head for the airport to catch the long flight back to

Zambia

“Goodbye everyone, thank you for taking me kayaking on your lovely river and lake” shouted Kevin as he climbed into Troy’s truck, to get a lift to the airport.

“And think you too Troy for arranging all this for me, it really has been a cracking Canadian adventure for

Kevin the Kayaking Monkey

The curious adventure of Carlos the curious condor

2012-06-15T23:40:00.000-07:00

Marty is on his honeymoon so here is an adventire fron one of his friends

The curious adventure of Carlos the curious condor

Carlos is a condor (a very large bird) who lives in the mountains in Peru, South America and Carlos is a very curious condor, who can’t help himself being curious about everything he sees or hears.

Carlos is a long way from home; he is in Kenya in East Africa, after he flew all the way from

Peru

to see his friend Marty the motorcycling giraffe’s wedding. Carlos had been very curious to find out about his friends bride (Gillian giraffe). And after a lovely day at the ceremony and wedding party it was now time for Carlos to make the long flight back to Peru.

To get back to Peru, Carlos has to fly right across (from east to west) Africa and then all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. It will be a very long flight, but because of his large powerful wings Carlos should be able to make it home safe and sound.

To get across Africa first Carlos had to fly south and then pick up the mighty Congo River and follow it path as it snakes its way through the jungles of Central Africa before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Africa.

As Carlos flew above the River and the ever increasing number of trees that made the jungle so dense he could no longer see the ground he became very curious about what could be found in the African jungle

“There are lots of strange animals living in the jungles in south America I wonder what or who lives in the African jungle” he though to himself and then swooped down out of the sky and landed with a thump on top of one the very big trees and then branch my branch he made his way to the ground

In the trees Carlos saw all sots of different birds and a few monkeys swinging from branch to branch that reminded him of the monkeys in the rain forests back home in South America, then sat in a clearing Carlos saw something he had never seen before, he wasn’t sure what theses animals were but they looked liked very big monkeys with no tails.

Carlos was very curious about these animals and bounced over to find out more.

“Hola” said Carlos “I am Carlos a condor from South America, I am curious about what type of monkey you are?”

“Hmmph” relied the largest one grumpily “we are not monkeys we are Gorillas, kings of the ape world”.

“Sorry I did not mean to offend you” said Carlos

“That’s all right” said the large Gorilla you told Carlos that his name was Stephen the silverback Gorilla.

Carlos as very curious about gorillas and stayed to chat to Stephen for quite a while so that he could learn all about gorillas and the things they liked to do, which is mostly sitting around and eating.

After a while Carlos decided that he had better get on with his journey and shouted “Adios my gorilla amigos” and climbed back to the top of the trees before flapping his mighty wings and taking off into the air for the long flight to South America.

Before he reached the coast of West Africa, Carlos flew over the large city of Kinshasa, and he swooped down low so that he could have a god look at all the people going around their busy lives, Carlos is always curious about the way people live in the city.

Then at last he came to the point where the River Congo flows into the sea and with a few flaps of his mighty wings, Carlos rose higher in the sky until he was flying through the clouds acccross the Atlantic Ocean.

After a few hours Carlos looked down at the ocean and saw a strange small island poking out from beneath the waves.

“That’s odd” though Carlos to himself “I don’t remember there being an island in this part f the ocean, I am very curious to find out more about this island” so he scooped down out of the sky towards the Island, when suddenly the Island started to move and split into two.

This made Carlos laugh to himself as he realised what he saw wasn’t an island at all but in fact it was two huge blue whales lying together at the top of the ocean”

“Hola Mr and Mrs Whale have a nice day” shouted Carlos and he turned and flew high back into the sky.

After a few more hours flying Carlos started to feel a little tired and he noticed that it had started to get dark

“I hope I am getting near to Peru now” said Carlos to himself “my wings are starting to ache”.

Carlos looked down at the ocean and he noticed a fishing trawler weaving about in an odd way.

“That’s very curious” thought Carlos and he swooped down and landed with a thud in the boats deck.

“Whoa” shouted the ships captain “you gave me a fright”

“Sorry” said Carlos and added “I am Carlos the curious Condor and I was just very curious to see why your boat was weaving around in such strange manner”

“Hola Carlos” replied the ships captain “I am Captain Jose and I am afraid all the ships navigation equipment has stopped working and we are trying to find our way back to Lima.”

“I know the way back to Lima” said Carlos “if I fly ahead you can follow me and you will soon get your boat back to port safely”

So Carlos took off into the air and flew slowly ahead of the boat and Captain Jose shone a big spotlight onto Carlos so the crew could follow him

Carlos looked very grand and special al lit up against the dark night sky, and it wasn’t long before the coast of Peru and the lights of Lima city could be seen in the distance.

“I think we can find our own way from here” shouted Captain Jose “muchas gracias Carlos que salvó el día” (thank you very much Carlos you saved the day)

“Su bienvenida” (Your welcome) replied Carlos and then he shouted adios and flew high up in the air towards his home in the Peruvian mountains.

After a little more flying Carlos at last arrived at the mountain side he calls home and there on the cliff edge he saw he friend Pedro the paragliding Llama, who was also in Africa for the big wedding.

As he landed in the cliff edge Carlos said to Pedro “Hola Pedro, I see you gone home before me”

“Well that because I caught and aeroplane home” laughed Pedro who then added “I am about to do some paragliding would you like to fly alongside me Carlos”

“I am very tired from flying all the way back from Africa, so I think I will just sit here an watch you paraglide” replied Carlos “ and when you have finished I will tell you all about my flight home and what a very curious adventure it was for

Carlos the curious Condor.

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe Story 52 Marty’s greatest adventure Part 3 Marty and Gillian’s big day

2012-06-08T22:23:00.000-07:00

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe

Story 52 Marty’s greatest adventure Part 3 Marty and Gillian’s big day

Marty the motorcycling giraffe is busy getting ready for the biggest day in his live, today he is getting married to his girlfriend, Gillian.

Marty’s best man Peter has come round to Marty’s house to help him get ready and make sure everything about the day runs smoothly.

“Marty you need to calm down a bit all this rushing about won’t achieve anything” said Peter

“I know” replied Mary “but I am very nervous about today, I hope everything will go well”

“Of course it will and in just a few hours you will be marrying your lovely bride, it’s going to be a really happy day” Said Peter

As the two friends were chatting there was a loud knock on Marty’s front door.

“Who can that be?” asked Marty “I am not expecting any visitors today”

“Well let’s see” said Peter as he opened the door

Marty and Peter were surprised to see a young English girl stood at the door.

“Hello” said the girl “my name is Rhiannon and I have been following the adventures of Marty the motorcycling giraffe since I was very little, and I have come over to Africa to congratulate you in your marriage and to wish you and Gillian lots of luck.”

“Jambo, asante sana” replied Marty “do come in, if you have come all this way just to wish me luck, then you must be given an invitation to the wedding”

Peter then rang Gloria to tell her about the young English girl turning up on Marty’s door step and after Gloria had a quick word with Gillian; Peter came off phone and said to Rhiannon.

“Gillian is so delighted that you came this way to see her wedding, that she has invited you to be an extra bridesmaid”

“Oh wow really? That’s wonderful” shouted Rhiannon as she jumped up and down with excitement

“I shall arrange for our friend Emmanuelle to pick you up and take you over to the Masai Mara to join up with Gillian and the rest of the bridal party” Peter told Rhiannon.

After a quick phone call it wasn’t long before Emmanuelle arrived on his motorcycle to pick Rhiannon up

“Is everything going ok, how’s Marty?” asked Emmanuelle to Peter on Marty’s doorstep.

“He’s ok, he is a bit nervous, but everything is in place and running smoothly, have people started to arrive yet”

“Oh yes” replied Emmanuelle “all sorts of friends of Marty from all over the world have been arriving at the airport, Marty will be shocked when he sees how many friends from his adventures we have invited to the wedding”

Rhiannon then jumped on the back of Emmanuelle’s motorcycle and off they zoomed to the Masai Mara

A short time later, Peter turned to Marty and said

“Well I think its time we left the house, you don’t want to be late for your own wedding”

“Oh no, that would never do” laughed Marty

Marty straitened his tie and asked “Do I look okay”,

“You look very smart, Gillian will be proud to be your bride, now come on lets go before we are late”

Marty rode his motorcycle to the Masai Mara and Peter followed in his van

The wedding is being held in a large clearing in the Masai Mara and the happy couple are going to exchange their vows under the shade of a mighty Baobab tree.

Marty was feeling nervous as he arrived at the clearing but he couldn’t believe is eyes when saw the number of guests that had turned up to see him and Gillian get married.

As Peter stepped alongside Marty he said “surprised to see them all are you Marty? Emmanuelle and I have been hard at work trying to get in touch with all your friends”

“Well you’ve done a great job” Smiled Marty as they walked down the middle of the guest towards the mighty Baobab tree.

On the left hand side was all Marty and Gillian’s family, and a few other local guests such as Edward the Elephant, Mr Makushi (who runs the transport business where Marty and his friends clean the trucks on a Friday afternoon) Mr Rono (from the state house), the posh lady and her cat and of course Victor and a very happy looking Emmanuelle who was sitting next to his new very special friend Moira, who had come all the way from the island of Zanzibar to be with Emmanuelle.

While on the right hand side there was so many of Marty’s friends from around the world including

Mrs Smith from London. Wee Jimmy from Glasgow

Scotland

. The janitor, the principle, Brian, Catie, Amy and Jo from Los Angeles. Joe and Henry from

Australia

. Andy (the birdman) from Boston. Jean Pierre from Paris. Herr Netzer from Berlin. Jai from India, Chen Gong from China, Adesh from Nepal, Andrei from Moscow and from Hollywood, looking very cool in his very dark sun glasses, the famous film star Johnny- Brad Deppit

Also there were

Troy the trucking moose from Canada, Kevin the Kayaking monkey form Zambia, Michael the motorcycling kangaroo from Australia, Pedro the paragliding Llama from Peru and Santosh the snowboarding yak from the Himalayas.

They all wished Marty good luck as he passed and then just as Marty and Peter got to the front of the aisle a big whooshing sound could be heard in the air with that a very large bird flew down and landed in the Baobab tree.

“Hola Marty” said the bird “I was very curious to see who you were marrying”

“Jambo Carlos” replied Marty and then turn to Peter to say “this is Carlos the curious condor from

Peru

he is curious about everything.”

With that Marvin the Minister Giraffe stepped forward and someone started to play some drums

“She’s here” Whispered Peter to Marty

Marty turned round to see Gillian looking absolutely stunning in her bridal veil and gown, standing at the end of the aisle alongside her father, Gregory Giraffe. And the biggest smile possible came across Marty’s face.

Gillian walked down the aisle with her father beside her and Gloria (chief bridesmaid) and the bridesmaids Georgina (Marty’s niece) and Rhiannon walking behind her.

As Gillian stood alongside Marty, he leaned over to here and whispered

“You look absolutely beautiful”, this made Gillian blush and smile at the same time.

The minister Giraffe then started the ceremony and everyone watched with smiley faces as Marty and Gillian declared their love to each other and swapped vows.

Marty and Gillian the swapped rings and everyone sighed as Marty gently placed Gillian’s wedding ring over one of her little horns on her head (this is where Giraffes wear their wedding rings).

The minister then stated “I now declare you Giraffe and wife” and then added

“Hongera, unaweza sasa busu bibi yako” (congratulations, you may now kiss your bride)

Marty leaned forward and gave Gillian a big kiss and all the wedding guests burst into a round of applause.

After the ceremony a big party took place in the Masai Mara with lots of singing and dancing, and as the day began to end and he sun started to go down, Peter announced that its time for everyone to sit down for the wedding dinner.

Gloria had been very busy preparing all sorts of food and lots of different flavours of fruit smoothies for the guests, which of course included big piles of twigs and leafs for all the giraffes.

During the dinner Gillian and Gloria were whispering to each other about how close Emmanuelle and Moira were sitting to each other and how happy Emmanuelle looked.

“I think there could be another wedding in the future” Giggled Gloria.

Peter then stood up and announced it as time for the speeches and he gave a very funny best man speech followed by Gregory who made a very emotional father of the bride speech.

Now it is time for Marty to make a speech, so Marty stood up and addressed his guests

“My wife and I” (this brought a loud cheer from all the guests) “would like to thank you all for coming to our wedding, and would like to say how nice it is to see so many family and friends all here together. Especially as some of you have had very long journeys from far away places to get here.

“I left the Masai Mara a year ago to move into the big city of Nairobi so that I could ride my motorcycle and seek out adventures, and since then I have had some marvellous adventures all over the world, but I did not realise that I would find my greatest and most exciting adventure back here in the Masai Mara.

As not one of my adventures have given me half the thrill that I have found, by meeting and falling in love with Gillian.

And now we are married and are going to spend the rest of our lives together, I am sure that the future will be filled with lots more exciting adventures for

Marty and Gillian the Motorcycling giraffes.

The end ???? or is it? hope you have enjoyed Marty's yearr of adventure (52 adventures in 52 years)

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe Story 51 Marty’s greatest adventure part 2 Marty’s last bachelors weekend party.

2012-06-01T23:17:00.001-07:00

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 embarrassing Marty with tales of when he was a little baby giraffe.

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, “yes and the best of luck to you and Gillian” added George.

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 beaches.

“Wow Zanzibar looks amazing, you have made a good choice of place to hold this bachelor party weekend Peter” exclaimed Marty excitedly.

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.

“That’s sounds like a really exciting adventure” exclaimed Marty

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 (thank you very much) when she serves me a smoothie” said Emmanuelle to the others.

“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” either said Peter “because I am really looking forward to telling Gloria about the treasure we found”

“I can’t wait to get back to Nairobi so I can start spending the treasure money” laughed Victor.

“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

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe Story 50 Marty’s greatest adventure Part 1 Marty’s special plan revealed

2012-05-24T22:33:00.003-07:00

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe

Story 50 Marty’s greatest adventure Part 1 Marty’s special plan revealed.

Marty the motorcycling giraffe has just go back from a really exciting journey to North America where he had lots of exciting adventures I the USA and Canada and met some new and some old friends. But now he has something much more exciting on his mind. Marty has had a special plan for a few weeks now and today is the day he intends to start carrying out this plan.

Marty is feeling very nervous and is getting butterflies just thinking about his special plan

“I hope everything goes as well as I have planned it” thought Marty as he climbed onto his motorcycle ride to the window cleaning yard where he works.

Marty finds it very whiz through the busy streets of Nairobi on his motorcycle and he it wasn’t long before he arrived at the yard.

Peter and Victor were already hard at work, loading all the window cleaning equipment into Peter’s van and getting ready for a hard day work cleaning windows in Nairobi.

“Jambo Peter, jambo Victor” shouted Marty as he climbed off his motorcycle.

Jambo Marty” replied Peter and Victor

“Did you have a good time in

America

?” asked Peter before adding “I bet you have some great stories to tell, but I wasn’t expecting you back at work until tomorrow”

“I had a wonderful time” replied Marty, “but I’ll need to tell you about it later, I am off to the Masai Mara just now and I have a special plan to put into place”

“You and that special plan, you keep talking about it when are going to tell us what it is”

“That’s is what I have come to tell you, I am off to the Masai Mara now, but will be back at 5 pm, if you two can be here and et Gloria and Emmanuelle here as well I will then tell you what the secret has been”

“That sounds exciting; I’ll make sure we are all here for when you get back”

With that Marty jumped back on his motorcycle shouted “kwahari” to Peter and Victor and was soon whizzing through the streets, out of Nairobi and towards the Masai Mara.

Because Marty goes so fast on his motorcycle it wasn’t long before her arrived at the Masai Mara and soon after he got the spot where his Giraffe friends and family live.

Little Georgina (Marty’s niece) was the first to notice the big cloud of dust that Marty kicked up as he rode his motorcycle through the Masai Mara.

“Look look its uncle Marty” she shouted excitingly

“Oh its as well Marty’s come back from America” shouted Marty’s special friend Gillian with just as much as excitement as Georgina.

“Calm down you two” said George (Marty’s brother in law and Georgina’s daddy) rather grumpily “come along lets go and find out what stories of his adventures Marty has to tell us this time”.

Marty pulled up alongside the giraffes, which made Geraldine (Marty’s sister) jump

“Must you drive that Motorcycle so close to me” she scolded and then smiled “welcome back little brother” and gave Marty a big hug.

“Well” said Gary (Marty’s brother) “tell us all about

America

”

“Yes please do” said Gillian, who had the biggest smile on her face as Marty lent over and gave her a big kiss.

For the next hour or so Marty kept the giraffes enthralled with his tails of his adventures in America, with Gillian and Georgina practically excited by his stories.

Marty then said to the others “if you don’t mind I have something very special to discuses with Gillian” and then he asked Gillian to com for a ride on his motorcycle.

Marty and Gillian then ride the motorcycle across the plains of the Masai Mara until they reached the place by a river where they had spent a very romantic time, not that long ago

“Oh Marty! You have brought me to our special place”

“Yes” replied Marty “and I have something very special to talk to you about.”

“I have really missed you when I have been away on my adventure” Marty continued “and I have come to the decision that I would rather have my adventures with you”

Marty then took a wooden box out of his motorcycle top box and bent down on to his front knees an opened the box to reveal a large diamond ring

Marty then looked up at Gillian and asked

“Gillian Je, kuolewa na mimi?” (Will you marry me?)

“Ooohh Ndiyo, Ndiyo, Ndiyo!!!” (Yes, yes, yes) shouted Gillian in reply.

Marty then placed the ring around one of Gillian little horns (this is where Giraffes wear their engagement and wedding rings) and gave he a big kiss.

“Lets hurry back to the others I can’t wait to tell them I am going to be a bride” squealed Gillian in delight

Marty and Gillian they got back on Marty’s motorcycle and headed back towards the other giraffes

As soon as they got there Gillian couldn’t contain her excitement and shouted to the other giraffes

“Marty has asked me to marry him, I am going to be a bride, look at my lovely engagement ring!!”

All the giraffes quickly gathered around the happy couple, with George and Gary slapping Marty on the back and telling him “well done” before giving Gillian a kiss and congratulating her.

Geraldine wanted a close look at the ring before giving Gillian a big hug; she then turned to Marty and said with a little tear in her eyes

“Congratulations Marty, this must mean that my little brother is all grown up at last” and then gave him a big kiss on the cheek.

Little Georgina was very excited and kept jumping up and down and asking to be a bridesmaid.

“Of course you will be” smiled Gillian and she gave Georgina a little cuddle

Marty then told the giraffes that and Gillian have to go to Nairobi now to tell his friends there, the good news.

Marty and Gillian then whizzed off to Peter’s yard in Nairobi where Peter, Gloria, Emmanuelle and Victor were waiting for them

“Here they are now” and Peter as Marty and Gillian turned into the yard “I wonder what this big secret is?”

But Gloria screeched “I know I know what the secret is, look at the big diamond ring Gillian has got on”

Gloria then ran to Gillian and they started hugging and chatting excitingly.

“Well” said Peter to Marty “so this is your special plan, you’ve asked Gillian to marry you”

“I sure have” replied Marty with a big smile “and of course I want you to be my best man”

“I will be honoured to be your best man” Peter replied

Victor and Emmanuelle then started to shake Marty’s hoofs and congratulate both Marty and Gillian

And Marty thought to himself that getting married to Gillian could be the greatest adventure of all for

Marty the motorcycling giraffe

To read about when Marty first met Gillian check out story 16 Marty visits his family in the masai mara also on this blog site

Dont forget to check next weeks enthralling episode. Story 51 Marty's greatest adventure Part 2 Marty's weekend with the boys, to posted on Saturday 2nd June 2012

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe Story 49 Marty’s great North American Adventure Part 3 Marty in Awesome LA

2012-05-18T23:12:00.002-07:00

Story 49 Marty’s great North American Adventure Part 3 Marty in Awesome LA

Marty the motorcycling giraffe is on yet another of his great adventures, an exciting trip to North America. After spending some time in Boston, Niagara Falls and Toronto Marty has caught an aeroplane flight to Los Angeles.

Marty stepped off the plane and felt the hot sun on the back of his (very long) neck.

“Ahh the warm Californian sun, that’s how I remember LA from my last trip, I’m looking forward to meeting up with some of my old friends here.” Marty thought to himself.

After booking himself into a hotel Marty headed for a motorcycle hire shop, so that he could get a nice motorcycle to get around on during is stay in Los Angeles.

“I do like riding these American Motorcycles” Marty told the man in the hire shop.

“They are awesome machines” replied the man in the hire shop before telling Marty to “have a nice day”

“Hakuna matata” laughed Marty as he waved and whizzed off on the motorcycle.

The first place Mary headed for was St Columbus primary school, where he had helped out as a stand in flag pole the last time he was in LA

Marty stopped his motorcycle and parked it out side of the school walls and then stretched his neck to look over the wall into the school yard, and there he saw his old friend the janitor sweeping the playground

“Jambo Mr Janitor, habari gani”

“Oh My!” shouted the rather startled Janitor and then he looked up and smiled. “Marty, you’ve come back, all the way from Africa, its good to see you again, do come into the school”

The janitor then opened the school gates for Marty to walk into the school yard.

“Come on Marty, I’ll take you to the principals office he will be delighted to see you again, will you be in LA for long?”

“No not long, just time to visit some old friends, before I have to go back home to Africa”

The janitor the knocked on the principals office door and poked his round and said “principal we have a very special visitor” with that Marty bent down and out his head round the door.

“A very special visitor indeed” exclaimed the principal “welcome back to St Columbus, its great to see you again”

“Come down into the main hall Marty, there is something there you might like to see” added the principal.

So Marty followed the principal and the Janitor into the school hall and there on the wall was a large picture of Marty receiving his medal from President Obama, after he saved the day by acting as a flag pole.

“That was a very special day and an exciting adventure” said Marty

“You’ll always be remembered and welcome at St Columbus” said the principal “and I am sure the children would like to see you again too”

“That would be great” replied Marty.

So the janitor made an announcement over the schools audio com system that all the classes were to come down to the school hall immediately.

The children were so delighted and excited to see Marty that it took quite a while for the teachers to get them to be quiet and sit down in the hall

Marty then stayed for a little while talking to the children and telling them all about his adventures and the exciting places he has visited.

When it was time to go Marty said Kwahari to all the children and of course the janitor and the principal before getting back on his motorcycle and heading back into the LA streets

“Goodbye Marty, come back and visit us soon” shouted the Principals as Marty rode off.

Marty knew where he was heading next; he was going to pay a surprise visit to some friends (Brian, Catie and Amy) who had met when he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania back in Africa.

As Marty pulled up outside of their house Brian and Catie spotted him and came running out to greet him

“Oh my word Marty, what are you doing in LA, its awesome to see you again buddy” shouted Brian

Marty explained that he was coming to the end of his great North American adventure and just had to see them before he headed back to Africa.

“I am going to spend one more day in LA and then I must catch my flight home the day after tomorrow”

“Well that’s great” said Catie “we can arrange a special barbeque party on the beach for you tomorrow evening”

“Now that does sound like fun” replied Marty

Catie then phoned Amy to tell her Marty was visiting and it wasn’t long before Amy came running along the road to join them

The four friends then went for a walk along the beach, talking about their memories of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and other adventures they have had since they last met.

As it was starting to get dark Marty could see a mysterious figure up ahead walking along the beach al dressed in black.

“Who’s that?” asked Marty

“We don’t know her name” replied Amy “but we call her the angel of the dark, because she always comes out for a walk as it starts to get dark and she always wears black”

“How mysterious” thought Marty

Marty was starting to feel tired so the four friends made arrangements to meet on the beach for the barbeque party the next night and Marty set off for his hotel.

After a good nights sleep Marty work up early and had a big plate of twigs and leafs for breakfast and headed off on his motorcycle to explore LA.

First he headed off to Disney land for a few hours where he saw his favourite cartoon characters and went for a ride on some of the fair ground attractions. Marty then visited Venice beach which he remembered from his last visit had a lot of street entertainers.

After he had finished on Venice beach he went to the local shopping malls and spent the last of the money he got when he and his friends found the treasure chest on the island in Lake Turkana, on something very special indeed.

Soon it was time to meet up with Brian, Catie and Amy on the beach for the barbeque party.

When Marty had arrived the barbeque was already lit and his friends had invited some more people along including the janitor and principal from St Columbus primary school, which made Marty very happy.

The barbeque party was awesome and every one was having a good time, when as the sun went down, Marty saw the mysterious angel of the dark walking on the beach.

“Don’t worry about her, the angel of the dark always keeps herself to herself” said Catie.

But then as she clambered over some rocks the mysterious lady slipped and fell down in between two rocks. Everyone at the barbeque party thought this looked very funny and started to chuckle. But their giggles soon turned to expressions of concern when the mysterious angel of the dark didn’t get back up from between the rocks.

Everyone started running along the beach to the rocks where “the mysterious angel of the dark” had fallen.

Because his legs are so long Marty was easily the first to arrive and he looked down to see the mysteriously sitting with her foot caught under a large rock.

“Jambo, habari gani?” asked Marty

This startled the mysterious lady and she shouted “ahhh!! Who are you?” at Marty

By this time the others had caught up and Brian said “its alright this is Marty the motorcycling giraffe, all the way from Africa, he was only asking if you are ok”

“Sorry, you gave me a little scare Marty; I didn’t expect to see a giraffe on a beach in LA. My name is Jo and I am afraid my foot has got stuck under this rock”

Every tried to push the big rock off from Jo’s foot but it was too heavy and it wouldn’t budge.

Marty then stepped forward and said “stand back everyone; I think I can move the rock”

Marty then positioned himself with his front feet on another rock and his hind legs on the rock that Jo was trapped on and with a mighty cry of “Harambee” he pushed as hard as he can with his big strong hind legs an the rock slowly moved off Jo’s foot.

Jo moved her foot out of the way and Marty gently let the rock fall back down to the sandy ground.

“Thank you very much Marty” said Jo as she pulled herself to her feet.

“Hakuna Matata” smiled Marty

Jo then joined the rest of the group at the barbeque party that went on all through the night.

Eventually Marty told everyone that he had to go to take the motorcycle back to the hire shop and catch the aeroplane back home to Africa.

“I have had a great time in North America” Marty told his friends but I have to go as I something very special planned when I get back to Africa”

Marty then shouted “kwahari” and jumped on his motorcycle and started to ride away

“Goodbye it’s been great having you here in LA, come back soon” everyone shouted and waved after him”

Marty loved his adventures in North America but he couldn’t wait to get back home to put his special plan into action which he was sure would bring some wonderful adventures for

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe

To read about Marty's first trip to LA read story 6 Marty goes to LA
To read about when Marty first met Brian Catie and Amy see story 13 Marty climbs mount Kilimanjaro (both stories in this blog site)

Martys next adventure Story 50 Marty's biggest adventure of them all Part 1 Marty's special plan to be posted on Friday (one day early 25th May 2012)

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe Story 48 Marty’s great North American adventure Part 2 Marty and Troy the trucking Moose.

2012-05-11T23:28:00.001-07:00

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe

Story 48 Marty’s great North American adventure Part 2 Marty and Troy the trucking Moose.

Marty is having a great adventure in North America, and after spending some time with his friend Andy in Boston, where Marty go to see his first American football match. Marty is now whizzing down the freeway, on a large American motorcycle he has hired, towards the Canadian border.

In Canada Marty wants to see the Niagara Falls and Toronto city before handing back the big America motorcycle and catching an aeroplane to Los Angeles.

Marty was really enjoying his ride towards Canada and it wasn’t long before he could see the sun glistening on the blue surfaces of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

“Ahh the great lakes are up ahead” thought Marty “that means it won’t be long before I reach the

Canada

”

Excited by the thought of reaching Canada, Marty pulled back the throttle on his motorcycle and started to speed up towards the lake, when suddenly he heard a loud bang and his back wheel started to skid out of control.

Marty had to hold on tight to the handlebars and use all his motorcycling skills to stop himself from crashing, but he soon brought the motorcycle safely to a halt

Marty climbed off his motorcycle and looked at his back wheel

“On no I have puncture” sighed Marty to himself “and it’s still a long way to the nearest town”.

As he didn’t really know what else to do, Marty started to push the motorcycle along the road towards the great lakes and towards Canada

But with the motorcycle being so very heavy and with the sun beating down on is back it wasn’t long before Marty got very tired and the lakes and the Canadian border did not seem any closer.

Marty thought to himself that he was never going to be able to push the motorcycle al the way to Canada when he heard the sound of a large lorry’s horn and the screech of breaks behind him

Marty turned round to se that a large lorry had stopped behind him an getting out of the cab was a large moose, wearing a cowboy hat, sunglass, blue denims and a checked lumberjack shirt with the sleeves rolled up over his very powerful looking biceps.

“Howdy partner” said the Moose “looks like you’re in a spot of trouble”

“Jambo, my motorcycle has punctured tyre” replied Marty, before introducing himself and explaining that he comes from Africa and is on holiday in North America and is heading towards the Niagara Falls and Toronto.

“Well I never heard of a motorcycling Giraffe before” laughed the Moose and shook Marty’s front hoof and added “My names Troy, Tory the trucking Moose and you’re in luck because I am heading towards Niagara Falls city, where you can get your motorcycle fixed”.

Troy then opened the back of his lorry’s trailer and using all his strength he lifted Marty’s motorcycle and put it into the trailer.

“Wow that is one very strong Moose” thought Marty to himself

“Jump in the passenger seat Marty” said Troy and we will be in

Canada

in no time.

So Marty climbed into the lorry and off they headed along the freeway to the Canadian border.

Marty and Troy soon became good friends as they chatted as they drove along with Troy telling Marty all about Canada and how he had left the other moose in the Canadian wilderness to move to the big city and become a trucker, and Marty told Troy all about how he left his family in the Masai Mara and moved to the big African city of Nairobi so that he could ride his motorcycle and have lots of adventures.

It wasn’t long before they reached the border.

“Welcome to Canada Mr Giraffe” said the border control officer as he checked Marty’s passport.

“Asante sana” replied Marty

Troy then drove the lorry into Niagara Falls city and to a garage.

“This is a very good garage and they will have your motorcycle fixed in no time” Troy assured Marty and then, with his very strong and powerful arms, he lifted Marty’s motorcycle off the back of the lorry and pushed it into the garage.

The man in the garage told Marty that the motorcycle will be fixed and ready by first thing tomorrow morning, so Marty wandered off with Troy to see the exciting sights in and around Niagara Falls city.

Marty and Troy were very hungry, so the went to Troy’s favourite café in the city, “the Rainforest Café”, where Troy ordered a large plate of grass and plants and of course Marty had a big plate of twigs and leafs.

After they had finished their dinner, Troy took Marty to the Clifton hills area of town, where Troy showed Marty around some haunted houses, Marty found this very exciting. Marty then had a good look around the different shops in the area.

“Right Marty” said Troy “enough of the eating and shopping lets go and see the thing you have really come to this City for, the famous Niagara Falls.”

As they got near the falls Marty could hear the thunderous roar of the water flowing over the falls and could see the large mist cloud rising above it.

“This reminds me of the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River” Marty said to Troy.

“These falls are caused by the Niagara river that flows from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, going over a large set of cliffs” Troy informed Marty.

Troy then pointed out across the falls and explained to Marty that Niagara Falls is made up of two large water falls

“This one is the Horseshoe Falls and is in Canada and the far one you can see is called the America falls and is across the border in the

USA

.” Troy told Marty and then exclaimed “come on Marty lets go to the top of the Sky Lon tower, you get a great view from up there”

Marty and Troy then climbed up the stairs to the top of the tower, and Marty saw that Troy, it was a fantastic view across the falls.

As the two friends looked out from the tower the sun started to go down and then all of sudden a whole load of lights were turned on, illuminating the falls in the night sky.

“Wow kwamba ni ajabu” (Wow that is amazing) shouted Marty

The a whole host of fireworks shot into the sky and exploded to shower the earth with bright sparkling little droplets of light

This made Marty jump and shout “Hiyo ni hata kushangaza zaidi kuliko show mwanga” (that is even more amazing than the light show)

The friends stayed a little longer before Troy set off for home and Marty headed off to his hotel.

The following morning, Marty got up early had a big breakfast of twigs and leafs before going to the garage to pick up his motorcycle. That now has a brand new tyre on the back wheel.

Marty then went to Troy’s house to say kwahari (goodbye) and to thank him for helping him out on the freeway and for showing him around Niagara Falls.

Marty then headed off towards Toronto.

Marty was soon whizzing down the road along side the mighty Lake Ontario that looked beautiful with the reflection of the morning sun glistening on the top of the blue water.

After short while Marty arrived in Toronto, where he had a few hours to look around city before he had to hand in his motorcycle to the hire company and catch an aeroplane to Los Angeles.

In Toronto Marty stood at the bottom of the huge CN tower and looked up in amazement at the sight of the tower disappearing in to the sky.

“Wow, even for a Giraffe that is a tall tower, I wonder how they manage to clean the windows in such a building” thought Marty.

Marty then brought some twigs and leafs from a specialist shop and sat by the pond in the lovely Nathan Phillips Square and ate some lunch while watching the busy people of Toronto go about their business.

Marty had just enough time to visit the Royal Ontario Museum and marvel at the large dinosaur skeletons they have in there.

“Dinosaurs look even more scary than Lions” though Marty.

Soon it was time for Marty to go to the airport to catch his flight to Los Angeles.

Marty loved his visit to Canada and was really pleased he had made a new friend in Troy the trucking moose, but was looking forward to his visit to Los Angeles and to see what adventures could be found there for

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe.

Marty's year of adventures (52 stories in 52 weeks) is nearingt eh end dont miss next weeks tghrilling adveneture Story 49 Marty's great North American adventure part 3 Marty in awesome Los Angeles to be posted on Sat 19th April 2012

Marty the motorcycling Giraffe Story 47 Marty’s great North American adventure part 1 Marty and the Birdman of Boston

2012-05-04T23:05:00.002-07:00

Marty the motorcycling Giraffe Story 47

Marty’s great North American adventure part 1 Marty and the Birdman of Boston

Today is a very exciting day for Marty the motorcycling Giraffe as today his about to start out on a very exciting adventure to North America

Marty’s friends, Peter, Gloria, Emmanuelle, Victor and of course his special friend Gillian, have all turned up at the airport to wave goodbye to Marty.

“What things are you planning to do on this trip Marty?” asked Victor

“Well first I am going to Boston where I hope to meet up with my friend Andy, who I met in Peru, and then hire a Motorcycle and ride to Canada to see Niagara Falls and then catch a aeroplane to Los Angeles, where I hope to meet up with some of the friends I met the last time I was in LA and also I have friends there that I met when I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro” replied Marty and he added “ and of course I hope to have lots of adventures along the way!”

“Ooh that sounds like you’ll be gone for a long time, I’m going to miss you” Said Gillian sadly

“I will miss you too” replied Marty “but I will be back before you know it and when I return I have something very special planned”

“You keep mentioning this special plan Marty, but you never tell anyone what it is” said Peter

“You will all find out in good time” laughed Marty

It was now time for Marty to catch his plane so he said Kwaheri to everyone and gave Gillian a little kiss before making his way to the plane.

“Kwaheri, na safari njema” (Goodbye, have a good trip) they all shouted after him.

It’s a long flight from Kenya to the USA but as Marty managed to fall asleep for most of the flight it didn’t seem long before the plane was landing at Boston’s airport.

Marty was very glad that his friend Andy was there to meet him at the airport

“Hello Marty welcome to the USA, its good to see you again” greeted Andy

“Its good to see you too and I am very excited about being back in America” replied Marty

“Well I have got lots of things planned for your visit, today I am going to show you all around Boston and tomorrow I have got you a ticket to come and see me play American Football for the New England Patriots against the New York Giants”.

“That’s sounds fantastic" said Marty, "I don’t know anything about American football but I am sure it will be very exciting. I remember you telling me your football nickname is the Birdman”

“That’s right” laughed Andy “that’s the nickname our teams supporters have given me”

First they went to Marty’s hotel so that he could book in for the night and unload his luggage (just a rucksack as Marty likes to travel lightly).

“I’m very hungry, they had no twigs and leafs on the dinner menu an the aeroplane” Marty told Andy

“I know just the place to go” replied Andy “Follow me”

So they set off to a river side café on the banks of the River Charles that runs through Boston and down to the ocean.

Marty and Andy sat on outside table to eat their dinner and chatted way catching up on what they each have been up too since they climbed to the lost city of Machu Pichu together.

Marty told Andy about all his adventures and Andy tried to explain the rules of American football to Marty.

After they had finished their dinner Andy took Marty on what is know as the freedom trail, and explained how Boston took a very important role in the USA gaining its independence from England hundreds of years ago.

Marty was very impressed, especially at some of the important buildings like the Old South Meeting House, Old State House, and Paul Revere House, that they visited on the tour.

But it was soon getting quite dark and as Marty was a little tired from all the travelling he told Andy that he was going to go back to his hotel to get some sleep.

Before he went Andy gave Marty ticket for the match the next day and explained that the New England Patriots play in the Gillette stadium which is in Foxborough a few miles away.

“Hakuna matata” said Marty “I will hire a big American motorbike and I will be able to get to the Stadium no problem”

Marty slept well that night and woke up just in time to get some breakfast and head out to Boston to find a motorcycle hire shop.

At the motorcycles hire shop, Marty managed to hire a lovely big American motorcycle and the shop agreed that he could return it to the shop they own in Toronto in Canada.

“I will enjoy riding this Motorcycle all the way to Canada” said Marty to the man in the hire shop, but today I am going to use it to ride and around Boston and then head off to see the big football match”

“Well you have a nice day” said the hire shop man and Marty got on the motorcycle and whizzed off into Boston’s busy city streets.

Marty spent the morning riding around Boston and getting very used to riding the large American motorcycle and also finding out more about Boston.

But soon it was time for Marty to head off for the Gillette stadium to see the big football match, Marty was feeling very excited about seeing his good friend Andy play in such an important match.

As Marty headed out of Boston city toward Foxborough he noticed that the road up ahead was very congested, in fact the cars and truck were not moving at all.

So Marty weaved his way through the stationary traffic.

A little way up ahead Marty could see someone had got out of his car and was looking at the traffic jam and shaking his head. As Marty got closer he realised it was his friend Andy

Marty pulled up alongside Andy and said

“Jambo Andy, shouldn’t you already be at the stadium”

“Yes “ replied Andy “ my friend Sags was giving me a lift but now it doesn’t look like I will make it in time for kick off, my coach will be furious”

“Hakuna matata” shouted Marty “jump on the back of my motorcycle and I will get you to the stadium in plenty of time”

So Andy jumped on the back of the motorcycle and soon they were whizzing through the traffic towards the stadium.

At the stadium Andy went to get ready for the game and Marty took his seat in the stadium. The people sitting near the Mary were very surprised as Marty sat down, as they had never seen a Giraffe at a football game before.

The game started and Marty found it very exciting if not a little painful looking as the players kept bashing into each other.

With all his football gear on it was difficult for Marty to tell which one of the players was his friend Andy but luckily he had his nickname “the birdman” written on the back of his jersey.

As the game went on the New York Giants took the lead and looked like winning the game. Near the end of the game Andy’s friend Sags arrived.

“Phew I have just made it in time for the finish” said Sags “whats the score?”

“21-17 to the New York Giants” replied Marty “I don’t think Andy’s team are going to win”

“It’s not over yet” replied Sags

With that Andy managed to break away from the pack of New York Giant’s players and one of the New England Patriots team threw the ball very high and very long to where Andy was running.

Andy jumped up and caught the ball and kept on running to take him over the “touch down line”

All the crowd were jumping up and down shouting Andy’s nick name “Birdman, Birdman, Birdman” over and over again.

With that a loud hooter was sounded.

“That means the game has finished and the Patriots have won, and Andy scored the winning touchdown” Sags Told Marty

“Hooray for the Birdman” shouted Marty.

After the game Andy introduced Marty to all the Patriots’ players and gave him an American football signed by all the team.

“Oh asante sana this is a lovely gift” said Marty and then added “but now I have to say kwaheri, as it is time for me to go, I have a long ride ahead of me to Canada”

“Well it’s been great to see you again” said Andy “I hope you enjoy the rest of your time in America.”

With that Marty jumped on his motorcycle and headed out on the road to Canada.

Marty liked visiting Boston and was pleased to meet his old friend Andy and thought the football match was very exciting but now he couldn’t help wondering what sort of adventure could be found in Canada for

Marty the Motorcycling giraffe.

Check out whn Marty and Andy first met in Stories 30 and 31 Marty goes to Peru part 1 and part 2 (also on this blog site)

And dont forget to look out for next weks exciting story--Story 48 Marty's great North American adventure , part 2 Marty and Troy the trucking moose.

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe Story 46 Marty rides the rapids (Marty and Kevin the kayaking monkey)

2012-04-27T23:40:00.003-07:00

Marty the Motorcycling Giraffe

Story 46 Marty rides the rapids (Marty and Kevin the kayaking monkey)

While Marty was having his breakfast (twigs and leafs of course) he looked out of the window and noticed what a lovely sunny day it is.

“As its Saturday and I don’t have to go to work, I think I will go for a nice long ride on my Motorcycle” Marty said to himself.

There is nothing Marty likes better than to whizz around on his motorcycle, but just a he was getting everything ready to go for a ride, some one knocked on his door

Marty opened the door to see a monkey with a rather cheeky smile at the door.

“Jambo Marty rafiki (my friend), it’s me Kevin the Kayaking monkey from Zambezi River”

Jambo Kevin, it’s good to see you again, what are you doing in

Kenya

”

Kevin came inside and explained to Marty that he has been invited to enter a kayaking race on the white water rapids on the River Tana near Sagna in Kenya.

“I caught a train from Lusaka (capital city of Zambia) to Nairobi and I now have to get to Sanga for the race. But I couldn’t come to Nairobi with out visiting my old rafiki, now could I” Kevin told Marty and then added “and it turns out you’re a bit of a local celebrity as well, I had no problems finding your home as everybody I asked in Nairobi knows all about Marty the motorcycling giraffe.”

This made Marty laugh and he replied “well you don’t get many giraffes in the city and I am definitely the only motorcycling giraffe”

Marty then told Kevin that he had no plans for the day and he would happily give him a lift, to Sanga, on the back of his motorcycle.

It didn’t take Marty long to get ready and soon the Marty and Kevin were whizzing along the streets of Nairobi heading towards Sanga.

They certainly got some odd looks from the people they passed, as you don’t often see a motorcycle whizzing by with a giraffe and a monkey on board.

Because Marty can ride his motorcycle very fast they arrived at the River bank in plenty of time for the race. This gave Kevin time to test out the kayak the organiers of the race had provided for him.

After a quick go in the kayak, Kevin paddled the kayak up to the side of the river and where Marty was stood.

“This is a good kayak, I think I am in with a chance of winning this race” Kevin said to Marty and then added, “there is still plenty of time for the race, why don’t you have a little go at kayaking, while we wait its great fun”.

Marty agreed that it did look fun, so when Kevin got out of the Kayak, Marty climbed in. Because he has such long legs it was very difficult for Marty to get in and he didn’t feel very comfortable or very stable in the kayak.

Kevin laughed at Marty and pointed out cheekily that he looked about as much as home in a kayak as a fish would on a bicycle.

Marty took the paddles off Kevin and pushed himself away form the side of the river and vey slowly started to paddle downstream.

Marty’s great height made the kayak very unstable and it wobbled about in water, making Marty quite nervous and he tried to control it with the paddles.

As Marty reached the middle of the river, the faster flowing water caught the kayak and it started to rush down stream

“Whoa, how do you stop this thing” shouted Marty, as he shot off down the river, ducking his head under the branches of trees that hung over the river from its banks.

To his great trepidation Marty saw a large rock sticking out of the water up ahead and not matter how had he paddled he couldn’t stop his kayak head strait for it and his eyes were as wide as saucers as the front end of his kayak hit the rock sending Marty flying out of the kayak and spinning in the air before landing with a huge splash in the water.

For a few worrying seconds Marty disappeared underneath the fast flowing waters, but quite quickly hi head an long neck and head popped out and Marty slowly stood to his feet.

As he is so tall Marty as quite able to wade to the side of the river, but he was dripping wet.

By this time Kevin was laughing hysterically at the site of his sodden Giraffe friend.

“You are the worst kayaker ever” laughed Kevin.

This made Marty laugh too,

“Yes I don’t think Giraffes are cut out for kayaking and I will stick to motorcycling in future” laughed Marty

Marty and Kevin then ran down the banks of the river to retrieve the kayak so that Kevin could take it back upstream to the start of the race. Where there was quite a crowd gather to watch.

Kevin climbed into the kayak and lined up along side the other kayakers at the start of the race

“Moja, mbili, tatu, kuanza mbio” (One, two, three, start the race) shouted on of the race organisers

All of the kayakers paddled very hard to get their kayaks to the centre of the river where the water runs the fastest.

The race got very exciting as the kayakers started to zoom through the white water rapids, while zig-zagging in and out of the rocks that stuck out of the water.

Marty ran along the river bank to keep with the race, cheering and shouting his support to Kevin as he went.

Many of the kayakers fell out of their kayaks and into the river, they then pulled themselves to the river bank where they could dry off in the hot sun and watch the rest of the competitors speed towards the finishing line.

The river hits a sharp bend and the finishing line is just past the bend.

As the kayakers reach the bend Kevin was in third place.

The two leading kayakers both tried to go down the centre of the river in the fast water, while Kevin tried to go past on the outside, where he would have to paddle extra hard, as the water did not run so fast.

The first two kayaker got to close to each other and bashed paddles which caused them to wobble in the water and they had to slow down to keep their balance, this gave Kevin just the opportunity to paddle past the and into the lead.

“Hooray well done Kevin” shouted Marty and he jumped with joy, which meant his head suddenly appeared above the tree tops surprising a couple of vultures that were sat on the highest branches.

After the race Kevin stepped on to the winner’s podium to collect his trophy

The race organiser shouted to the crowd

“Mshindi wa leo njia yote kutoka Mto Zambezi katika Zambia ni Kevin monkey Kayaking” (Today’s winner all the way from the Zambezi River in Zambia is Kevin the Kayaking monkey)

And the crowd all cheered very loudly as he handed over the winners trophy to Kevin.

“Wow that was exciting, well done” said Marty as he and Kevin prepared to make there way back to Nairobi.

“Yes it was rather fun” replied Kevin

They then climbed on to Marty’s motorcycle and headed off towards Nairobi.

Once they reached Nairobi, Marty took Kevin to the train station so he could start his long journey back to the Zambezi River in Zambia

“Kwahari Kevin, it was good to see you again” said Marty as Kevin boarded the train.

“It was good to see you too Marty” shouted Kevin through the train windows.

Marty waved Kevin off and thought to himself that raiding the rapids in a kayak was an exciting adventure and wondered what the next adventure will be for

Marty the motorcycling Giraffe

check out story 19 (also in this blog site) marty and emmanuelle go on a safari part 3 marty and kevin the kayaking monkey, to find what happended when Marty first met Kevin

The next thrilling installment in Marty's year of adventures (story 47 Marty great North American adventure (part 1 Marty and the Birdman of Boston), will be posted on Sat 5th May)