Sheldon Family Adventure: Todd and the Great Monkey Adventure

Todd's alarm rang to the sound of this favorite animals, monkeys "Ooh, ooh, ahh ahh - ooh, ooh, ahh, ahh - ooh, ooh, ahh, ahh." Todd woke up in a daze and slammed the alarm off. He got out of bed and walked downstairs for breakfast. He found the usual toast with jam at the table.

Todd's mom, Mrs. Liverson sat down at the table along with Todd and his dad and said "Todd, for your birthday we rented a beach house in Kenya on Watamu Beach with monkeys on the property. We have already packed your bags and we're leaving this morning."

"YAHOO!!!!" Todd screamed out loud.

"When exactly do we leave, Mom?"

"Well, Todd we leave in two hours. First we fly to Doha, Qatar then to Nairobi. The next day we fly to Mombasa. From there we drive two hours north to Watamu Beach." said Mrs. Liverson.

When they arrived after their long flight Todd went and unpacked.

"Hey Mom, I'm going to explore in the woods."

"Just don't get lost." said his Mom.

"OK, Mom."

Todd set off on his journey. He found some birds and a little spider monkey.

"OOO, EEE, HHH!"

"What's that?" Todd said.

He heard the sound and was frightened.Then he heard a snap, crackle and pop.

"Who's that?" Todd asked.

"ARGH!"

Todd's heart was now racing with fear. It got closer and closer. Then it stopped and jumped out of the bushes and said, "I am the great Monkey King OsloChoo. Me and my great monkey tribe have lived here for centuries." said OsloChoo.

"Why aren't there any other tribes," asked Todd.

"Well, we just simply told them to leave or else we would kill them." said OsloChoo

"What happened?"

"Some did what we asked and some we fought. Come see my spectacular, excellent tribe!" said OsloChoo.

So on they went to the village of monkeys.

"This is your tribe?"

"If you have ever seen episode 6th of Star Wars, we were really intrigued with how the Ewoks built their village, said OsloChoo. "We stole a TV and watched Episode 6 on HBO. Come, I'll give you a tour of the village. First
stop, the kitchen."

Once they got to the kitchen a monkey was cooking something. He turned around and said "Hi, I'm Paul, would you like some fried grubs."

"This is Paul the cook, Todd." said OsloChoo.

From there OsloChoo took Todd to see the pool and meet the head lifeguard named Zack.

"How did you build a swimming pool here OsloChoo?" asked Todd

"Oh, yah, uhh, we didn’t build it, we stole it from a resort. We also took the diving board."

OsloChoo yelled, "Hey, Zack come here and meet Todd."

"Hey Bro, how’s it hanging? Do you want to catch some gnarly waves at the beach?"

"Uh, no thank you." said Todd.

"Ok, your sure you don’t want to catch some gnarly waves."

"Nope I’m good." responded Todd.

"Ok, bye dude, I’m going back to business then."

Since Todd declined the invitation to surf from Zack, OsloChoo decided to show him the playground.

"Wow, this a cool park. But that part over there looks like it was human built." exclaimed Todd.

"Oh, we stole that too, and then we added our our own parts." blushed OsloChoo.

WEE-OOO WEE-OOO WEE-OOO! What’s that asked Todd?

"Oh, it’s the warning alarm, letting us know when the enemy attacks. We stole that too. You better come hide in my house."

So OsloChoo and Todd ran over to his house. OsloChoo got Todd secured and ran off. An hour later OsloChoo came back and announced their victory.

Meanwhile back at the beach house, Todd’s mom, Mrs. Liverson was worried about him. He had been gone a while.

"Now, now dear you don’t need to be worried, he probably found something cool to explore." said Todd’s dad while he was reading the paper.

Back at the village Todd told OsloChoo he had to go home because his mom was probably worried about him.

"Don’t tell anyone about this village, not even your parents, Todd!" said OsloChoo firmly.

"Why?"

"Because for whatever you know they could be spies for another enemy tribe."

When Todd returned home both parents asked him what he saw.

He reported seeing birds and monkeys during his exploring but nothing about meeting OsloChoo, King of the Great Monkey Tribe of Watamu.

TO BE CONTINUED...

I asked Cameron to write about our stay at Watamu Beach in Kenya. He asked if he could write a silly story instead. The compromise was that his silly story had to take place in Watamu and had to be about something we did or saw. We all had fun spotting monkeys, watching them and at times feeding them bananas. Although Cameron never actually met a monkey named OsloChoo we cannot confirm he doesn't exist since we heard the local monkeys making lost of noise in the wee hours of the morning. Who knows, maybe it was OsloChoo and his tribe.