In tonight's bedtime story for kids, we're going to Sleepy Forest. When a pair of monkey sisters, Maya and Paloma, arrive at Sleepy Forest Elementary from Brazil, Koko and his friends decide to welcome them with a party, at their new purpose-built hang out spot: Koko Cabana! Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Narrator 🎙 Abbe Opher
Author ✍️ Luke Prendergast
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Koua La Moon, a podcast
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Speaker 1: of original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make
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Speaker 1: bedtime a dream. Tonight, we're welcoming some new arrivals to
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Speaker 1: Sleepy Forest Elementary School, and they have traveled far. Joining
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Speaker 1: Coco and Kira's class are two golden lion monkeys fresh
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Speaker 1: from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, and they're excited but
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Speaker 1: also a little bit homesick. Plus one of them has
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Speaker 1: a birthday coming up. It's a lot Fortunately our kind.
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Speaker 1: Little Cocoa knows just the thing that will help settle
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Speaker 1: them in and give them a chance to celebrate a party,
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Speaker 1: of course, but this isn't any old party. This is
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Speaker 1: the first of its kind, and I don't think the last.
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Speaker 1: It sounds awesome. Okay, jump into bed and get ready
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Speaker 1: to rest and relax. As we hear how Cocoa and
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Speaker 1: Kira open a new venue on Sleepy River, especially for
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Speaker 1: their brand new friends. Close your eyes, his time to begin.
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Speaker 1: Coco Cobana by Luke Prendergast. Deep in the heart of
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Speaker 1: a far away forest stood a cozy, wooden cabin. Inside
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Speaker 1: the cabin lived a family of koalas. Coco lived with
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Speaker 1: his whole family, his mom and dad, his grandma and grandpa,
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Speaker 1: and his little sister, Kira, the panda. Kira hadn't always
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Speaker 1: lived there. She had arrived over a year ago from
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Speaker 1: somewhere outside of Sleepy Forest when Coco's parents adopted up
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Speaker 1: and now Kira called Sleepy Forest home. It had taken
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Speaker 1: a while to settle in, but she absolutely loved it there,
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Speaker 1: and she loved her family of koalas too. Neither Coco
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Speaker 1: nor nor Kira could imagine life without the other. One
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Speaker 1: morning at Sleepy Forest Elementary School, their teacher, missus Meryfeathers,
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Speaker 1: fluttered her big soft owl wings and said she had
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Speaker 1: an announcement to make listen up. Everybody settled down, Now,
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Speaker 1: settled down. I have someone I want to introduce to
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Speaker 1: you all today. We have two new students joining us.
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Speaker 1: They are joining us in Sleepy Forest from another forest
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Speaker 1: far away on the other side of the world, the
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Speaker 1: Amazon rain Forest. Everybody, this is Paloma and Maya. They're
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Speaker 1: sisters and their golden lion monkeys. Straightway, Coco could see
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Speaker 1: why these monkeys were called golden lion monkeys. The student
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Speaker 1: standing next to Missus Merriyfeathers was very small, and the
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Speaker 1: one next to her was even smaller. They had a
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Speaker 1: little black face and a mass of the most luxuriously
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Speaker 1: golden colored hair you could ever imagine. It was as
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Speaker 1: though Koko thought someone had flown up to the sky
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Speaker 1: and bottled some of the sun then used it to
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Speaker 1: paint the monkey's fur. That's how brilliantly golden they shone.
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Speaker 1: Ullah said Maya, and Ullah said Paloma a little shyly.
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Speaker 1: That's how we say hello in the Amazon rainforest. Paloma explained,
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Speaker 1: it's nice to meet you all. Welcome, Paloma and Maya.
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Speaker 1: All of the students of Sleepy Forest Elementary called back
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Speaker 1: to them, and they all gave them smiles and little waves.
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Speaker 1: Missus Merryfeathers said that they should take seat next to Coco,
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Speaker 1: who she said was very friendly. Indeed, so Coco scooched
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Speaker 1: up along the desk to make room for the little monkeys.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to sleep beforeest you two, Coco whispered to them,
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Speaker 1: as Maya took out her clear pencil case and unzipped it,
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Speaker 1: and ploma took out her pink one. You're going to
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Speaker 1: love it here. You'll see. It's such a cozy, peaceful place,
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Speaker 1: and just the right amount of adventure sprinkled here and there,
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Speaker 1: and there are lots and lots of folks to be
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Speaker 1: friends with, like me, I can be your first Sleepy
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Speaker 1: Forest friend. Ploma gave him a big toothy grin and
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Speaker 1: said she was very happy, indeed, to have made her
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Speaker 1: first friend. Her sister giggled and agreed, and after that
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Speaker 1: Coco and the little monkeys spent the whole day chatting,
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Speaker 1: but only when missus Merrifeathers said they were allowed to
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Speaker 1: be chatting. Of course, Coco told the girls lots of
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Speaker 1: stories about all the creatures who lived in Sleepy Forest
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Speaker 1: and the adventures they'd been on. He told them about
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Speaker 1: Buck the beaver who built beautiful dams, and about Hamper
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Speaker 1: the hare who found a magical food basket, and about
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Speaker 1: the time Swifty herself came and put on a concert
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Speaker 1: down by Sleepy River, and how he and Kira had
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Speaker 1: got to go with their grandpa. In turn, Coco listened
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Speaker 1: to the monkey story and learned a lot about them too.
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Speaker 1: He learned about the Amazon rainforest and about how it
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Speaker 1: was so warm and wet that a thick mist often
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Speaker 1: hung between the dark, dripping leaves of the jungle trees.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it got so hot they all went down to
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Speaker 1: the cabana by the river to have a little party,
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Speaker 1: or in Portuguese, a festa and a swim. What's a cabana, Coco,
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Speaker 1: I asked. It's like a little beach hut, Maya explained,
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Speaker 1: where you can hang out and listen to music and
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Speaker 1: paddle in the water. Ah ha, said Coco, nodding, now
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Speaker 1: he understood. Paloma explained to him that their family had
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Speaker 1: moved to Sleepy Forest because their dad had decided he'd
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Speaker 1: like a bit of a slower pace of life, Thank
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Speaker 1: you very much. And he also learned that that weekend
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Speaker 1: it was Maya's birthday. This weekend, Coco asked, glancing up
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Speaker 1: from coloring in a picture of a helicopter. Maya nodded,
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Speaker 1: her tufts of golden hair swishing from side to side. Cool,
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Speaker 1: Coco said, And what are you going to do to celebrate, oh,
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Speaker 1: said Maya a little sheepishly. Nothing, I guess, after all,
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Speaker 1: I only just got here. I think I'll probably just
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Speaker 1: hang out with Paloma and our parents. Ko Ko nodded
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Speaker 1: and smiled. That sounds nice, he said, and turned back
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Speaker 1: to coloring in his helicopter But later, as he and
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Speaker 1: Kira were walking back home through the broad forest tree
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Speaker 1: trunks after school, ko Ko turned to her. Hey, Kira,
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Speaker 1: you know the new kids who arrived to Day, Paloma A, Maya. Ah, Yes,
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Speaker 1: said Kira. They seem super cool. I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: make better friends with them. They are pretty cool. Ko
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Speaker 1: Ko agreed. One thing I've found out to day is
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Speaker 1: that it's Meyer's birthday this weekend. But because they're new
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Speaker 1: here and don't know any one, they're just going to
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Speaker 1: spend it at home. But I was thinking that maybe
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Speaker 1: we could throw a surprise celebration so that they feel
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Speaker 1: truly welcomed in Sleepy Forest and Maya gets to celebrate
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Speaker 1: her birthday properly. What do you think? Kira was nodding
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Speaker 1: so energetically Coco thought her head might fall off. Oh Coco,
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Speaker 1: she cried, I think that's just the most brilliant idea ever.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I first arrived in Sleepy Forest and
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Speaker 1: didn't know anyone, you and your friends made me feel
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Speaker 1: so welcome. Well that's what I'm hoping we can do
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Speaker 1: for Mayra and Paloma two, Coco said, except he added,
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Speaker 1: I don't really know what kind of party to throw hm.
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Speaker 1: Kira sighed, stroking her fluffy chin thoughtfully and taking a
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Speaker 1: few more steps through the trees. She was trying to
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Speaker 1: cast her mind back to exactly how she'd felt when
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Speaker 1: she first arrived in Sleepy Forest. I think that when
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Speaker 1: you first arrived somewhere, you're missing the place you came
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Speaker 1: from at the same time as you're excited about being
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Speaker 1: in a new place. Those two feelings exist simultaneously. So
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Speaker 1: I think that the best thing you can do is
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Speaker 1: to have a celebration that combines the place they came
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Speaker 1: from with the place they've come to, something that brings
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Speaker 1: the Amazon to Sleepy Forest. Kind of thing you mean,
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Speaker 1: said Cocoa, recalling what the girls had told him earlier.
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Speaker 1: You mean, we should throw a Brazilian festa in a
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Speaker 1: cabana down by the river. Kira's eyebrows shot up with surprise.
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Speaker 1: She was impressed. Well, she said, I guess that's exactly
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Speaker 1: what I mean. And so the plan was fixed. They
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Speaker 1: would throw their new friends a festa in a cabanner
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Speaker 1: down by the river. But first of all, they needed
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Speaker 1: to find a cabanner. They asked around all the residents
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Speaker 1: of the forest, but as it turned out there wasn't
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Speaker 1: a single cabanner around, so instead they went to Buck
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Speaker 1: the beaver, who was famous for being able to build
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Speaker 1: anything you could imagine using just a pile of wood
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Speaker 1: and his pair of sharp front teeth. Buck was sitting
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Speaker 1: on his down on the river wearing his usual red
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Speaker 1: plaid shirt and fluffy ear muffs. When Buck saw Cocoa
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Speaker 1: and Kira come a knocking, he gave them a wave
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Speaker 1: and said, what can I do for you? Do to day? Then,
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Speaker 1: Cocoa and Kira explained that they needed a cabanner so
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Speaker 1: that they could throw a festa for their new friends
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Speaker 1: Paloma and Mayer. It needed to have three sides and
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Speaker 1: a straw roof, and a deck where they could put
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Speaker 1: sun lounges, and a table covered in glasses of fresh juice.
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Speaker 1: Did Buck think this was something he could do well?
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Speaker 1: Cocoa and Kira said, Buck, there ain't nothin' a had
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Speaker 1: trouble making yet, name it to me. I'll get your
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Speaker 1: cabanner built for you. Happy that the cabaner building was
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Speaker 1: in Buck's safe and capable hands, Next, Cocoa and Kira
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Speaker 1: turned their attentions towards the question of activities for a
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Speaker 1: water side festa. You needed all sorts of fun things
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Speaker 1: to do on the water, like rubber ring and inflatable
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Speaker 1: toys and a little dinghy for floating up and down.
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Speaker 1: But where were they going to find those? Then Kira
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Speaker 1: had a little brain wave. I know just where we
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Speaker 1: can go, She said, Pickle the Frog's Home, Sweet Home hotel.
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Speaker 1: They've got a swimming pool for the guests down there,
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Speaker 1: don't they. I'm sure if they have a swimming pool
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Speaker 1: they'll have all kinds of toys and paraphernalia for the water.
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Speaker 1: What a good idea, Kira. Coco exclaimed. Let's go and
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Speaker 1: visit Pickle and ask. So Coco and Kira made their
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Speaker 1: way through the forest to where pickles brand new hotel stood.
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Speaker 1: They went up to the door and knocked, and soon
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Speaker 1: enough heard the croak of Pickle's voice from within. Come in.
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Speaker 1: In the hotel lobby, it was fresh and cool. Staircases
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Speaker 1: led up to the top floors and down into the
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Speaker 1: caves below the hotel, and right in the middle was Pickles,
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Speaker 1: where wearing a smart suit and a bow tie and
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Speaker 1: standing behind the reception desk. Ah, Hello Coco, Hello Kira.
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Speaker 1: He said, Well, this is a rather delightful surprise. You see,
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Speaker 1: I was expecting guests, but you live so close by.
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Speaker 1: I don't suppose you're looking for a room in the
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Speaker 1: Home Sweet Home Hotel today, are you? Sadly not today,
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Speaker 1: mister Pickle, Kira said, In fact, today, we come with
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Speaker 1: a favor to ask you. Ah, said Pickle, A favor, Well,
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Speaker 1: then go ahead. Cocoa and Kira explained to Pickle that
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Speaker 1: they were throwing a festa in a cabana down by
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Speaker 1: the river for the Golden Lion Monkey sisters. Pickle took
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Speaker 1: all this information in with a look of befuddlement on
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Speaker 1: his face, but once he'd got it all worked out
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Speaker 1: in his head, he nodded as a signal for them
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Speaker 1: to carry on. And so they explained that they didn't
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Speaker 1: have any water equipment inflatables, a dinghy, that kind of
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Speaker 1: thing to use at the festa. They knew that the
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Speaker 1: Home Sweet Home Hotel had a swimming pool, and they
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Speaker 1: wondered if Pickle had any swimming pool paraphernalia that they
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Speaker 1: could borrow pretty please. Pickle looked first at Coco and
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Speaker 1: then at Kira. Now you too, he said, Do you
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Speaker 1: have any idea why the Home Sweet Home Hotel is
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Speaker 1: called the Home Sweet Home Hotel. Cocoa and Takira exchanged
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Speaker 1: a look. They certainly did know why the hotel had
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Speaker 1: the name it had. Pickle told anyone and everyone any
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Speaker 1: chance he got, But they also knew they had to
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Speaker 1: feign ignorance. Nothing gave Pickle more more joy than telling
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Speaker 1: this little tale, and Cocoa and Kiera needed him as
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Speaker 1: full of joy as possible. The happier Pickle was, they figured,
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Speaker 1: the more likely he was to let them borrow his
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Speaker 1: swimming pool equipment. Oh I think I did know, once,
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Speaker 1: said Kia, in the sweetest voice she could possibly muster.
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Speaker 1: But I seemed to have utterly forgotten. Could you please
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Speaker 1: remind us? Gladly, said Pickle, and he cleared his throat.
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Speaker 1: The Home Sweet Home Hotel is called the Home Sweet
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Speaker 1: Home Hotel, he told them, because it was my greatest
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Speaker 1: dream to provide for any visitors to Sleepy Forest, when
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Speaker 1: soever they may come, a place of rest and relaxation.
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Speaker 1: It is easy to miss home when you are far away,
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Speaker 1: and here we meet each and every guest's needs in
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Speaker 1: whatever way we can. We want in the end, the
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Speaker 1: Home Sweet Home Hotel to feel, in fact like a
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Speaker 1: home away from home. That is why the Home Sweet
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Speaker 1: Home Hotel has its name, and that is also wide,
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Speaker 1: he concluded, smiling down at them both. It would be
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Speaker 1: my absolute pleasure to make young Meyer and Paloma feel
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Speaker 1: as at home as possible here in sleepy forest. So
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Speaker 1: to the pool, follow me, Pickle the Frog hopped outside
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Speaker 1: to the swimming pool, with Cocoa and Kira following closely.
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Speaker 1: He went up to the poolhouse, threw open the doors,
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Speaker 1: and spread his arms wide. Will these do, he asked?
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Speaker 1: Inside were a whole selection of inflatables, her blow up flamingo,
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Speaker 1: a blow up unicorn, a whole load of floating noodles,
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Speaker 1: some rubber rings, and a dinghy too. It was absolutely perfect,
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Speaker 1: very good, said Pickle, smiling with satisfaction. I'll make sure
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Speaker 1: to bring all of this down to the cabanner at
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Speaker 1: the weekend in time for the festa. You can depend
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Speaker 1: on me. Cocoa and Kira thanked Pickle profusely and headed
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Speaker 1: back out into the forest. That they agreed was almost
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Speaker 1: everything sorted. They'd organized a cabanner, and they'd organize plenty
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Speaker 1: of fun water activities for the festa too. Now, said Kira,
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Speaker 1: the only thing we need to sort out is having
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Speaker 1: plenty of delicious nibbles and drinks so that everyone's tummies
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Speaker 1: are completely satisfied. But she added, wrinkling her nose, who
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Speaker 1: can we ask to help us with that? Cocoa raised
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Speaker 1: his eyebrows at her. Well, Kira, just ask yourself the
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Speaker 1: question who's the best cook in the hole of Sleepy Forest.
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Speaker 1: Kira looked at him, then broke into a big smile. Mama,
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Speaker 1: she said, Oh, of course, our makeles sorts of delicious
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Speaker 1: treats for your festa. Cocoa and Kira's mom said, when
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Speaker 1: they'd got back to their cozy little cabin in the woods,
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Speaker 1: I think we need fruit juices with little umbrellas in them,
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Speaker 1: chopped up mangoes and lemon and lime ice cream cake.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you agree? Leave it with me? And so that evening,
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Speaker 1: Cocoa and Kira went to bed, tired and satisfied they'd
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Speaker 1: managed to get everything in order for the festa. They'd
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Speaker 1: sent out the word to all of their friends at
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Speaker 1: Sleepy Forest Elementary School. Now all they had to do
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Speaker 1: was wait for the day to arrive. And when the
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Speaker 1: day did arrive, they were amazed to see it was
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Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful days Sleepy Forest had seen
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Speaker 1: so far that year. With the sun burning brightly in
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Speaker 1: the great expanse of blue sky, and a gentle breeze
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Speaker 1: blowing through the leaves, it was just the kind of day.
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Speaker 1: Cocoa and Kira agreed made for a festa in a
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Speaker 1: cabana down by the water, and so they ate their breakfast,
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Speaker 1: put on their favorite party gear, and headed down to
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Speaker 1: Sleepy River, with their mum carrying with them the trays
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Speaker 1: of goodies she'd been preparing. When they got there, they
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe their eyes. Buck was there already, with the
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Speaker 1: cabaner already set up an amazing little building that met
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Speaker 1: their specification perfectly, a pretty wooden deck with bright yellow
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Speaker 1: sun lounges on it and parasols too, with a straw
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Speaker 1: roof on top. And Pickle had been down too for
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Speaker 1: by the bank of Sleepy River were all the inflatables
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Speaker 1: and moored to the edge. Bobbing on the water was
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Speaker 1: the Dingy Oh. They both cried, hugging Buck the beaver.
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Speaker 1: It's perfect. Soon all the other guests arrived in their
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Speaker 1: swimming costumes, Camo the Chameleon and his magical trunks that
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Speaker 1: changed color as much as he did, and prickles the
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Speaker 1: hedgehog with a costume design and not to get caught
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Speaker 1: on his spikes. Then there was a whispering. Maya and
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Speaker 1: Paloma arriving. People were saying, sh said, ko cho, Let's
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Speaker 1: make it a surprise. And so they waited in silence,
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Speaker 1: listening to the crunching footsteps get closer and closer and closer,
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Speaker 1: until from around the bend the two little monkeys appeared. Surprise,
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Speaker 1: they cried, and Maya, near enough jumped right out of
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Speaker 1: her ball of bright golden fur. Paloma, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: burst out into giggles. Wow, Maya said, looking at the
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Speaker 1: cabanner and the inflatables, I had no idea. She looked
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Speaker 1: at Paloma and her parents, who stood either side of them.
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Speaker 1: Was this your idea, she asked them. Her mother shook
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Speaker 1: her head. Oh, no, nothing to do with us, she said,
00:22:06
Speaker 1: This is all Cocoa and Kira's doing. Paloma grinned, I'm
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Speaker 1: as surprised as you, she said. The girls looked over
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Speaker 1: at Cocoa and Kira and beamed at them. Maya was
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Speaker 1: holding back and grinning a little shyly, but when Paloma
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Speaker 1: gave her a little nudge with her elbow. Her shyness disappeared.
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Speaker 1: The two monkeys ran over to Cocoa and Kira and
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Speaker 1: gave them each a big hug one by one. Oh
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Speaker 1: thank you, Coco. Maya said, oh, thank you, Kia, this
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Speaker 1: is the best surprise ever. Paloma agreed, then leant in
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Speaker 1: and whispered in Coco's ear, thank you for doing this
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Speaker 1: for my sister. Well guy, yes, Coco said, this is
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Speaker 1: what Sleepy Forest is all about. Having a seriously good time,
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Maya. For the rest of the afternoon they
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Speaker 1: had the best cabanifesta in the history of cabanifesta. Some
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Speaker 1: of the Sleepy Forest elementary students had bought their musical
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Speaker 1: instruments so struck up some jolly music. They threw the
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Speaker 1: inflatables into the river, and Maya and Paloma showed them
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Speaker 1: how in the Amazon they would lie on the inflatables
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Speaker 1: and float up and down the river and sometimes even
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Speaker 1: push each other off. But that was okay because the
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Speaker 1: water was so cool and refreshing in the heat of
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Speaker 1: the day, it was a pleasure to dive right into it.
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Speaker 1: Then Maya said, hey, do you want to know what
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Speaker 1: their most fun thing is that we do in the Amazon. Yes, please,
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Speaker 1: they replied, and so Maya found a particularly thick and
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Speaker 1: long piece of vine on the forest floor and climbed
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Speaker 1: up one of the big trees that stretched over the river.
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Speaker 1: She found a perfect branch, then tied the vine to it. Watch,
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Speaker 1: she shouted, from high above, we swing, And with that
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Speaker 1: she took the end of the vine and leapt off
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Speaker 1: the tree trunk. Down she plummeted, then up she soared, Then,
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Speaker 1: taking a few perfect somersaults in the air, she dove
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Speaker 1: straight down into the water, making barely the smallest of splashes.
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Speaker 1: Paloma wasn't far behind her, swinging with a whoop and
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Speaker 1: doing a perfect dive into the water. Oh oh, everyone
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Speaker 1: watching cried. Then there was a chorus of oh Me,
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Speaker 1: my turn, and the sleepy forest elementary school students formed
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Speaker 1: an orderly cue by the tree trunks, and one by
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Speaker 1: one soared and dove into the water on the makeshift swing.
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Speaker 1: When they began to get tired, Cocoa and Kira's mum
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Speaker 1: had it covered snack time, she called out, and they
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Speaker 1: scurried over to the tables where she had laid out
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Speaker 1: the magnificent feast. They sipt on long glasses of fruit
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Speaker 1: juice with little umbrellas poking out of the tops. They
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Speaker 1: wolfed down big slices of lemon and lime ice cream cake,
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Speaker 1: and they chewed on sweet chunks of mango and pineapple,
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Speaker 1: letting the juice dribble down their chins and licking it
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Speaker 1: back up. Then, once they were full, they paddled the
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Speaker 1: dinghy up and down the river and lay about on
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Speaker 1: the sun loungers, sipping the water straight out of coconuts
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Speaker 1: which buck the beaver board holes into the sun was
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Speaker 1: setting now it sent a deep orange light across the
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Speaker 1: pink sky and down through the trees of Sleepy Forest.
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Speaker 1: The shadows got long, and the creatures playing the musical
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Speaker 1: instrument changed their tunes. No longer was their jolly, uplifting music.
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Speaker 1: Now they played gentle lullaby tune. One by one, all
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Speaker 1: of the guests began to yawn. What a long and
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Speaker 1: exciting day it had been, but it was time to
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Speaker 1: go home. Happy birthday, Maya. Each of the games said,
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Speaker 1: what an awesome party. Everyone agreed that this wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: the last time they had a cabana festa down by
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Speaker 1: the Sleepy river, definitely, said Maya. The cabaner isn't for
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Speaker 1: one day only. The cabaner is for the whole year round.
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Speaker 1: Poloma added, And this isn't any old cabana. This is
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Speaker 1: a very special cabaner. He looked at Cocoa and gave
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Speaker 1: him a big smile. It's the cabana of our best
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Speaker 1: sleepy forest friend. It's the Cocoa Cabaner. Soon enough, the
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Speaker 1: girls were falling asleep too, so their parents took them home,
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Speaker 1: back to the tall tree where their treehouse was. Cocoa,
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Speaker 1: Kira and their mom packed up the remainder of the
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Speaker 1: food and made their way back through the forest. Darkness
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Speaker 1: was setting in the birds were singing their evening song.
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Speaker 1: Coco let out a big yawn. Then Kira caught it too,
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Speaker 1: and after a moment even their mom was yawning. Coco
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Speaker 1: and Kira's mom let out a little giggle. Wow, that
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Speaker 1: was a very fun day indeed, and rather tiring too,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't you agree? For a reply, Coco and Kira both
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Speaker 1: just yawned again, well exactly, their mom said, with another
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Speaker 1: little laugh. Let's get you to home. I'm so terribly
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Speaker 1: proud of you welcoming those lovely monkeys to sleepy forest
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Speaker 1: like that. It really does make my heart swell up
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Speaker 1: with happiness to have two such kind kids as you.
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Speaker 1: So let's get you home, and I'll make you both
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Speaker 1: a nice cup of hot chocolate, and then we can
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Speaker 1: all go to bed. And so the three of them
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Speaker 1: made their wandering way through the forest back to the
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Speaker 1: little cabin in the woods and to their beds. You
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Speaker 1: mu