Tweeter's Safari

Hi kids! This is Tweeter.

I’ve got a story for you all about the newest adventures of Paw and Gema. We all went on a Safari – that’s an adventurous journey  - to the lakes and islands of Kenya. Early in the morning the rooster was crowing so we all got up to prepare for our journey. Gema made some egg sandwiches for everyone and Beatie made the tea. They ate quickly, loaded up the van, and headed for the country. They found lakes with– crockadiles, lizards,fish, and  lot’s and lot’s of birds –  I loved that part.

We found a man with a boat and asked him for a ride. He said, “Sure! Tweeter, you can come but no Zebras. The boat will sink.”  We all hopped in for a ride and waved to Zelda and Zenia. They didn’t mind waiting.

We saw so many different kinds of birds. One called a king fisher was eating his lunch. He caught a fish in the lake and found a good spot on a limb for a picnic. See the fish in his mouth? Glad I'm not a fish.

We saw hippopotamuses. A whole big family of them and we got soooo close! Wow they are really big in the water. They were sleepy so they didn’t bother us. They did start making a loud grunting noise so we would go away and leave them alone. I told them not to worry. Paw and Gema just wanted to take their pictures for their grandkids. The little one popped his head up out of the water and said, "Hey! Take my picture for the grandkids”.

We saw a crockadile. He looked hungry so we fed him a fish that the fishermen gave us so he wouldn’t eat us.

We went across the lake and found an island. We stopped on the shore and got out. It was so beautiful! There were small trees with pretty pink flowers called the Desert Rose.

Then we saw a monitor lizard hiding in the rocks. Before he scurried off he said, "Tell Blue 'Jambo!'.

Then Paw found a nest of millipedes under a rock. Sometimes when the natives get hungry they eat the millipedes. Paw said, “I’m hungry.” Gema said, “Not me!”

We walked around for a while and then got back into the boat for our ride back to Zelda and Zenia. It was a lot of fun but we were getting really hungry.

George was pretty tired from driving so he took a little nap in the boat. When he woke up he said, "I'm hungry". So we went to a restaurant for lunch. Then he said, "Hey, there’s another lake we can go to where the water is so hot it bubbles and boils.





We all said, "Let's go!"

We saw lots of flamingos and collected feathers. See the long, skinny, pink legs? They look so funny.

The water is so hot we saw a man boiling potatoes in the water. He gave us one but we were so full we couldn’t eat it.

We all had a really fun time but Paw and Gema missed you and wished you could be there too. They love you so much!

See ya later alligator, after while crokadile.