In tonight’s bedtime story for kids, we meet a very tired animal, Peanut the Armadillo. Peanut has been working very hard as a guardian of Sleepy Forest, and he needs a holiday. So, he decides to jet off to Costa Rica, where he can siesta all day long. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Coco Sleep, a podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. Coco Sleepers, I know you all are super
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Speaker 1: passionate animal lovers like Coco and I, and tonight you
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Speaker 1: episode on Peanut, the armadillo who loves to eat peanuts
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Speaker 1: and play with friends on the grass plains? Yes? May
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Speaker 1: I introduce you to Peanut. He's a hard working armadillo
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Speaker 1: who decides to give himself a bit of a holiday
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Speaker 1: before we go globe trotting back to his home country
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Speaker 1: of Costa Rica. Though, please lie back in bed and
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Speaker 1: get comfy under your covers. Take some deep breaths in
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Speaker 1: and out until your breathing is nice and steady. Relax
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Speaker 1: your whole body, your neck, your head, and your face right,
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Speaker 1: it's time to pack your imaginary suitcase, grab your passport,
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Speaker 1: and let's go on holiday. Don't forget your sunscreen. This
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Speaker 1: is Peanut the Armadillo by Alicia Ainslie. Peanut was an armadillo.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen an armadillo before? They're very impressive creatures.
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Speaker 1: Like most armadillos, Peanut was small, about the size of
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Speaker 1: a little dog. He had a long, pointed face with
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Speaker 1: a little, snuffily pale nose on the end and two
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Speaker 1: small pointy ears on the top of his head. He
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Speaker 1: had a long, shiny tail and four teeny tiny pink feet.
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Speaker 1: Like all armadillos, Peanut's body was covered by an impressive shell.
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Speaker 1: Armadillo shells look a bit like turtle shells, except they
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Speaker 1: cover their entire head, body, and tail like little suits
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Speaker 1: of armor. The only thing left uncovered was Peanut's belly,
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Speaker 1: which was covered instead in tufts of fur. His shell
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Speaker 1: had hundreds of shiny bumps all over it, in all
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Speaker 1: different shades of brown and pink. The bumps were in
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Speaker 1: many different shapes and sizes, and they made Peanut look
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Speaker 1: very jazzy. Peanut the Armadillo was a hard worker. He
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Speaker 1: and all the rest of his armadillo friends in Sleepy
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Speaker 1: Forest were the designated guardians of the forest. The rock
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Speaker 1: hard shells that they wore across their back, head, legs,
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Speaker 1: and tail looked like a knight's armor, and this trustworthy
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Speaker 1: outfit marked them perfectly as the guardian of Sleepy Forest.
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Speaker 1: But despite how important the armadillos appeared at first glance,
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Speaker 1: they were actually very gentle creatures. They would watch the
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Speaker 1: forest dutifully from their burrows, looking out for any animals
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Speaker 1: in need of help. Sometimes they would see some older
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Speaker 1: animals needed help carrying their shopping bags, or sometimes a
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Speaker 1: smaller animal in need of a short cut tunnel to
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Speaker 1: help them pass under a fallen tree. There was always
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Speaker 1: something to keep them busy. The only problem was that
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Speaker 1: armadillos love to sleep. In fact, armadillos sleep for up
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Speaker 1: to sixteen hours a day, so the armadillos had to
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Speaker 1: take it in turns to stay awake and keep watch
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Speaker 1: over Sleepy Forest while the rest of the group slept
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Speaker 1: in their cozy underground burrows. Peanut the armadillo was a
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Speaker 1: dedicated worker and he took his job very seriously. However,
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Speaker 1: he was absolutely exhausted. Peanut hadn't had a day off
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Speaker 1: work in years, and the effects were starting to show.
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Speaker 1: He yawned his way through every shift, and he had big,
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Speaker 1: droopy bags underneath both of his little eyes. Sometimes he
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Speaker 1: was so tired that he would forget that he was
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Speaker 1: on duty and take a little nap, only to wake
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Speaker 1: up and find a disgruntled fellow armadillo standing over him
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Speaker 1: ready for their shift. Peanut thought he was in big
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Speaker 1: need of a vacation, and all the other armadillos agreed wholeheartedly.
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Speaker 1: So one Sunday afternoon, Peanut packed his little suit case
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Speaker 1: with a few essential items for his holiday. He packed
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Speaker 1: his passport, a bottle of sun loation, his swimsuit and
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Speaker 1: swimming goggles, a couple of flowery t shirts, and a
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Speaker 1: pair of bright green sunglasses. Peanut was going to take
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Speaker 1: a vacation somewhere very special to him. He was going
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Speaker 1: to go to his home country of Costa Rica, in
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Speaker 1: that in America. Peanut had never been to Costa Rica before.
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Speaker 1: He had been born beneath the shady trees of Sleepy
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Speaker 1: forest and had never stepped foot in his family's homeland,
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Speaker 1: but he had heard lots from his parents about what
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Speaker 1: a magnificent country, Costa Rica was, so it made perfect
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Speaker 1: sense that it should be the place he went on holiday.
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Speaker 1: Peanut's fellow armadillo friends waved him off as he said
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Speaker 1: good bye, and they wished him a wonderful vacation. Peanut
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Speaker 1: headed to the airport and boarded the aeroplane to fly
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Speaker 1: to Costa Rica. The flight was going to be long,
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Speaker 1: and Peanut had never been on an aeroplane before. At first,
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Speaker 1: he was nervous. What would it feel like to fly
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Speaker 1: through the air, he wondered. His little pink feet had
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Speaker 1: never left the ground before, and soon they were going
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Speaker 1: to be thousands of miles up in the air. However,
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Speaker 1: as the plane set off and began soaring through the sky,
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Speaker 1: Peanut immediately relaxed. Quee he shrieked as the plane wooshed
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Speaker 1: and soared up into the air. Peanut gazed out of
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Speaker 1: the airplane window and watched a sleepy forest grew tinier
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Speaker 1: and tinier as they flew up higher into the sky.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't believe that he was actually flying above the
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Speaker 1: earth with all the other passengers, and flying was actually
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Speaker 1: really fun. At that moment, a big red dragon, followed
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Speaker 1: by three little baby red dragons fluttered past his window,
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Speaker 1: holding suitcases of their own. The family of dragons must
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Speaker 1: be heading off on their vacation too. Peanut waved the
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Speaker 1: dragons and they grinned and waved back before flying further ahead.
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Speaker 1: Dragons didn't need an aeroplane to get places. Their huge
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Speaker 1: wings did the job for them. Peanut the Armadillo settled
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Speaker 1: into his seat and closed his eyes. He had a
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Speaker 1: long journey ahead, and he wanted to make sure that
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Speaker 1: he was well rested to make the most of his
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Speaker 1: holiday when he arrived. When Peanut landed in Costa Rica,
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Speaker 1: the first thing that he noticed was how much warmer
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Speaker 1: it was compared to sleepy forest. As soon as the
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Speaker 1: door to the plane opened, Peanut felt a wave of
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Speaker 1: warm air wash over him, and he instantly needed to
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Speaker 1: take off his jacket. He stepped off the plane into
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Speaker 1: the blazing midday sun and tilted his pointy little face
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Speaker 1: to the sky. He had never seen a sky so
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Speaker 1: blue and so clear before. There wasn't a single cloud
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Speaker 1: in the sky. This was going to be a perfect vacation,
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Speaker 1: he could tell. Peanut checked into his hotel and decided
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Speaker 1: to head straight to the beach to enjoy the glorious
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Speaker 1: sunny weather. He arrived at the Sandy beach and found
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Speaker 1: a spot to lay down his towel close to the
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Speaker 1: beautiful as you'll see. He rubbed sunlotion all over his
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Speaker 1: scaly body, making sure that he didn't miss a single spot.
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Speaker 1: He didn't want to burn after all. Then he placed
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Speaker 1: his bright green sunglasses on his face and lay down
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Speaker 1: on his towel to Sunbathe. He could hear the gentle
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Speaker 1: rolling of the waves and the sound of shuffling footsteps
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Speaker 1: on the sand. There were lots of other animals enjoying
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Speaker 1: the beach to day, and he could make out a
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Speaker 1: few voices chatting with one another, and one little child
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Speaker 1: asking their parent if they could buy ice cream. The
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Speaker 1: comforting sounds of the beach instantly made Peanut feel so
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Speaker 1: much more relaxed, and he found himself quickly drifting away
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Speaker 1: into another daytime dough. Just as Peanut was about to
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Speaker 1: fully drift off, he heard a voice next to him
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Speaker 1: mask would you like a coconut? Sir? Peanut opened his
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Speaker 1: eyes to see a black monkey with a white face
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Speaker 1: standing above him, holding a big basket full of brown,
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Speaker 1: fuzzy coconuts. Peanut clacked his tongue against the roof of
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Speaker 1: his mouth. He was quite thirsty. Actually, some coconut water
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Speaker 1: would be just right. Peanut ordered one coconut and handed
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Speaker 1: over a dollar to pay. The white faced monkey promptly
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Speaker 1: chopped off the top of the coconut shell and placed
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Speaker 1: a bright pink straw in the coconut, along with a
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Speaker 1: little yellow paper parasol on a stick. He handed the
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Speaker 1: decorated coconut to Peanut, and Peanut took a big slur
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Speaker 1: of the sweet coconut water. It was delicious and incredibly
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Speaker 1: refreshing on such a hot day. Peanut thanked the white
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Speaker 1: faced monkey for his scrumptuous drink, and the monkey went
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Speaker 1: on his way to offer more coconuts to other beach goers.
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Speaker 1: Peanut drank his coconut water and looked out at the sea.
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Speaker 1: It was full of life. He could spot dolphins giddly
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Speaker 1: jumping out of the water and twirling in the air
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Speaker 1: before landing back underwater with a PLoP. He spotted a
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Speaker 1: huge green sea turtle toddling its way across the beach
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Speaker 1: and into the cool waters for a revitalizing swim. Plus,
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Speaker 1: he could see a pair of white spotted eagle rays
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Speaker 1: floating through the waters together, gliding with grace and laughing
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Speaker 1: at a funny joke shared between them. The more that
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Speaker 1: Peanut looked at the sea, the more he wanted to
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Speaker 1: go swimming in it. He finished drinking from his coconut
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Speaker 1: and put his goggles on. Armadillos are very good swimmers,
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Speaker 1: and Peanut swam out into the sea with ease. He
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Speaker 1: swam up to the dolphins and watched their fantastic gymnastics
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Speaker 1: show up close. He dove to the bottom of the
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Speaker 1: seafloor alongside the sea turtle to admire the dazzling coral reef.
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Speaker 1: It was so colorful down at the coral reef. Peanut
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Speaker 1: had never seen such a spectacular place. He would have
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Speaker 1: never imagined that there was such beauty hidden at the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the sea. He had such a delightful swim
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Speaker 1: through the refreshing waters. Peanut already felt ten times better
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Speaker 1: being on vacation. He had no work to think about,
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Speaker 1: and he could do whatever he wanted and rest as
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Speaker 1: much as possible. It was utter bliss. After his swim,
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Speaker 1: Peanut returned to the shore to grab his things. He
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Speaker 1: was feeling slightly peckish, so he thought it would be
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Speaker 1: a good idea to go and get some food. He
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Speaker 1: spotted a lovely looking restaurant by the beach. He read
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Speaker 1: the menu out side, and there were all sorts of
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Speaker 1: unique dishes that he had never heard of before. He
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Speaker 1: couldn't wait to try them. He went and sat himself
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Speaker 1: down at one of the tables on the verandah and
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Speaker 1: tried to catch sight of a waiter. However, when he
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Speaker 1: looked around, he realized that he was the only person there,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't appear to be any staff around either.
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Speaker 1: Is the restaurant closed in the middle of the day,
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Speaker 1: Peanut thought, how peculiar. He wandered over to the door
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Speaker 1: and took a look at the little sign hanging from
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Speaker 1: a string. It read we are closed for a siesta.
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Speaker 1: Come back later. Peanut scratched his head with confusion. What
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Speaker 1: was a siesta? He waddled back towards the beach and
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Speaker 1: spotted the white faced monkey again. Hello, he greeted the
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Speaker 1: monkey carrying the cocoanuts. Do you mind if I ask
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Speaker 1: you a question? What is a siesta? The white faced
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Speaker 1: monkey informed Peanut that in Costa Rica, a lot of
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Speaker 1: people take a siesta in the afternoon. A siesta is
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Speaker 1: a time in the day when people take a break
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Speaker 1: to rest and nap before recommencing their work for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the afternoon and evening. Peanut liked the sound
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Speaker 1: of a siesta. As an animal who loved to sleep,
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Speaker 1: he appreciated the dedicated time to rest in the middle
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Speaker 1: of a busy work day. Perhaps when he returned home
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Speaker 1: to Sleepy Forest, he could suggest that all of the
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Speaker 1: Armadillos took an afternoon siest too. He was sure that
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Speaker 1: it would make everybody a lot happier and much more productive.
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Speaker 1: Respecting the restaurant's siesta time, Peanut headed back to his
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Speaker 1: hotel to enjoy a siesta of his own. He laid
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Speaker 1: down on his hotel room's King Sigh's comfy bed and
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Speaker 1: closed his eyes. The sweet, fresh breeze from the air
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Speaker 1: conditioning unit tickled his skin and cooled him down. After
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Speaker 1: a few hours in the sun, and he peacefully drifted
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Speaker 1: off for his own afternoon siesta. Peanut woke up a
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Speaker 1: couple of hours later and checked his watch. It was
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Speaker 1: almost five o'clock and his tummy was starting to rum
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Speaker 1: and grumble. He hoped that the restaurants would all be
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Speaker 1: open now. He dressed for dinner in his favorite yellow
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Speaker 1: flowery T shirt and headed back to the restaurant next
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Speaker 1: to the beach. It was certainly open now as he
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Speaker 1: witnessed the bright glowing lights of table candles and light
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Speaker 1: bulbs hanging from the ceiling. There was live music playing,
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Speaker 1: and he could see that there were already lots of
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Speaker 1: customers enjoying their meals. Peanart asked for a table for
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Speaker 1: one and was seated by the friendly waitress at a
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Speaker 1: table looking out over the sea. The waitress was a
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Speaker 1: radiant Tucan with silky black feathers and a creamy white face.
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Speaker 1: Her black eyes sparkled, illuminated by her orange eyeshadow. For
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Speaker 1: the most impressive thing about her was her splendid eye,
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Speaker 1: caching bright orange beak. Peanut had never seen a bird
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Speaker 1: so impressive before. He inspected the menu and his mouth
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Speaker 1: began to water as he browsed. There were all sorts
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Speaker 1: of dishes that looked absolutely delicious, and Peanut couldn't choose.
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Speaker 1: He asked the kind waitress what she would recommend, and
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Speaker 1: she suggested he try the salpernegar, which was a traditional
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Speaker 1: black bean soup. Peanut trusted her recommendation and ordered the
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Speaker 1: salpernegar along with a glass of coconut water. He had
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Speaker 1: become quite partial to it since his arrival. Peanut bopped
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Speaker 1: along in his seat to the live music while he
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Speaker 1: waited for his food. The band were excellent, and the
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Speaker 1: music they played was so lively and funky that it
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Speaker 1: was impossible not to jig along. Peanut's bowl of Supernegra
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Speaker 1: arrived and he dug straight in. He was absolutely famished.
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Speaker 1: The warming black bean soup was full of tasty vegetables
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Speaker 1: and served with a bowl of crackling tortilla chips. He
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Speaker 1: dunked the tortillas into the delectable soup and ate it
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Speaker 1: so fast that the waitress could hardly believe it. She'd
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Speaker 1: never seen somebody eat so quickly before, but then Peanut
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Speaker 1: had never been so hungry before, and the Supernegra was
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Speaker 1: absolutely delicious. While Peanut waited for his dessert, a pair
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Speaker 1: of tall, stately jaguars rose from their seats. Peanut quickly
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Speaker 1: realized that the jaguars were professional dancers as they took
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Speaker 1: to the dance floor in the middle of the restaurant
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Speaker 1: and moved to the music, They twisted and shook their
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Speaker 1: hips and performed the fanciest footwork Peanut had ever seen.
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Speaker 1: The pair of jaguars twisted under each other's arms and
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Speaker 1: twirled around without stopping. Their dancing was absolutely mesmerizing, and
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Speaker 1: they moved in perfect time with the lively percussion from
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Speaker 1: the band. As the song ended, the dancers took their
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Speaker 1: bow and the whole restaurant erupted with applause. Nobody clapped
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Speaker 1: harder than Peanut the armadillo. He was blown away by
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Speaker 1: their impressive dance skills. Peanut was having such a good
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Speaker 1: time on his vacation. He had already taken more naps
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Speaker 1: than he had in months, and swam in the sea,
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Speaker 1: meeting impressive new animals along the way. He was enjoying
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Speaker 1: the traditional foods of Costa Rica and was experiencing their
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Speaker 1: music and entertainment with delight. Peanut wondered if he would
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Speaker 1: ever want to return home to sleepy Forest. He was
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Speaker 1: having such a good time. Peanut's dessert arrived. He had
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Speaker 1: ordered a mouth watering dessert made with milk, rice and
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Speaker 1: cinnamon called ados conletchi. It looked absolutely delightful. Before the
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Speaker 1: Toucan waitress left. Peanut asked her, excuse me, what kind
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Speaker 1: of dancing were those jaguars just performing. I've never seen
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Speaker 1: anything so intricate and enchanting before the waitress explained that
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Speaker 1: the jaguars had been dancing the salsa. Salsa dancing was
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Speaker 1: a very popular dance form in Costa Rica and across
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Speaker 1: other countries of Latin America. Panut was captivated. Peanut was
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Speaker 1: eager to gobble up his dessert, but right at that moment,
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Speaker 1: the professional dancing jaguars started to encourage diners in the
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Speaker 1: restaurant to join them for a salsa dancing lesson. Nut's
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Speaker 1: ears pricked at the suggestion and his eyes lit up.
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Speaker 1: He would love to learn how to salsa dance, just
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Speaker 1: like the brilliant performers he had just watched. He ate
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Speaker 1: up his arrows conletche dessert in record breaking time and
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Speaker 1: hopped up onto the dance floor. He walked up to
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Speaker 1: the female jaguar and asked, is it all right if
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Speaker 1: I join in? I would love to learn to dance
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Speaker 1: like you. She replied that of course he could join in.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he could be her dance partner. Peanuts was
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Speaker 1: excited to have such a professional dance partner. All the
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Speaker 1: diners in the restaurant chose their partners, and the two
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Speaker 1: jaguars began to lead them all in a Salser dance class.
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Speaker 1: The music kicked in with a jaunty beat, and the
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Speaker 1: room came alive with dancing and merriment. The jaguars taught
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Speaker 1: them all how to hold each other correctly, and step
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Speaker 1: their feet forward and back past each other, and twist
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Speaker 1: and twirl under each other's arms. Peanut looked round and
00:25:33
Speaker 1: everyone else seemed to be getting the hang of it,
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Speaker 1: but he kept stumbling over his little feet and his
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Speaker 1: hands weren't long enough for the jaguar to spin underneath them.
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Speaker 1: Peanut tried as hard as he could to shake his
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Speaker 1: hips like everyone else, but his heavy armored shell got
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Speaker 1: in the way and he looked as stiff as a board.
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Speaker 1: The sweet dancing jaguar could see Peanut struggling and reassured
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Speaker 1: him that it would get easier. But the more that
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Speaker 1: Peanut looked around and saw everyone else perfecting their moves,
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Speaker 1: laughing and having fun, Peanut felt left behind. He just
00:26:26
Speaker 1: wasn't a natural Salta dancer. Suddenly, the jaguar that Peanut
00:26:34
Speaker 1: was dancing with clapped her hands in the air and
00:26:38
Speaker 1: announced to the crowd on the dance floor that they
00:26:41
Speaker 1: would now all have an opportunity to perform a shine.
00:26:49
Speaker 1: A shine was a small dance break in which they
00:26:53
Speaker 1: all would have the opportunity to improvise and create their
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Speaker 1: own moves in a bid to enjoy a shining moment.
00:27:05
Speaker 1: Peanut felt stumped. He wasn't a very good dancer, and
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Speaker 1: he would surely make a fool of himself without the
00:27:15
Speaker 1: Jaguar to lead him in some dance moves. Peanut looked
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Speaker 1: around and saw that the other diners were all happily
00:27:25
Speaker 1: breaking free of their partners to dance and shine. They
00:27:32
Speaker 1: were all twirling on the spot, twisting their hips and
00:27:37
Speaker 1: stomping their feet. Everyone seemed to have such better rhythm
00:27:43
Speaker 1: than him. Peanut started to feel a bit self conscious
00:27:50
Speaker 1: that he wasn't confident enough to break free on his
00:27:53
Speaker 1: own and perform a shine. But then he hadn't idea. Yeah,
00:28:01
Speaker 1: Peanut may not be able to shake his hips in
00:28:05
Speaker 1: his tough armored shell or stump his tiny little feet
00:28:11
Speaker 1: with enough impact, but he could make the most out
00:28:16
Speaker 1: of what his unique body could do. Peanut curled up
00:28:23
Speaker 1: within his shell until he was as tight as a ball.
00:28:28
Speaker 1: He tucked in his head, pulled in his tail, and
00:28:33
Speaker 1: began to roll around the dance floor. Everybody had to
00:28:39
Speaker 1: move out of the way as he sped around excitedly.
00:28:43
Speaker 1: He spun, bounced, and wound his way underneath people's feet
00:28:49
Speaker 1: and threw their legs. He created quite the scene, and
00:28:55
Speaker 1: when he finally popped back up out of his shell
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Speaker 1: and faced everyone else on the dance floor, nobody else
00:29:04
Speaker 1: had even completed their shining moments. Peanut had completely stolen
00:29:11
Speaker 1: the show, and the other dancers applauded him for his creative,
00:29:17
Speaker 1: impressive shine. Peanut smiled and bowed humbly, and the jaguar
00:29:26
Speaker 1: patted him on the back of his shell. I told
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Speaker 1: you it would get better, she whispered. When the salsa
00:29:37
Speaker 1: dancing class was over, Peanut returned to his table and
00:29:43
Speaker 1: paid his bill. He stretched his little arms above his
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Speaker 1: head let out a big yawn. He yawn as the
00:30:00
Speaker 1: Toucan waitress gave him his receipt. I think I'm ready
00:30:07
Speaker 1: to return home for a siesta, he added. The Tucan
00:30:13
Speaker 1: giggled and told him that a siesta is only what
00:30:18
Speaker 1: you have in the afternoon. What Peanut needed to return
00:30:23
Speaker 1: home for was a good old fashioned night's sleep. Peanut
00:30:30
Speaker 1: blushed and thanked her for taking care of him that evening.
00:30:36
Speaker 1: He clearly still had plenty to learn about Costa Rica,
00:30:41
Speaker 1: but he couldn't wait to know more. Peanut walked back
00:30:47
Speaker 1: to his hotel and practically fell into his bed that night.
00:30:54
Speaker 1: His day had been so full of so many fun activities,
00:31:00
Speaker 1: and he had filled his belly with so much good,
00:31:05
Speaker 1: hearty food pluts. He had enjoyed several delightful naps throughout
00:31:12
Speaker 1: the day. Peanut was very much enjoying his time in
00:31:18
Speaker 1: Costa Rica. He could get used to it here. As
00:31:26
Speaker 1: Peanut curled himself up into bed, he promised himself that
00:31:33
Speaker 1: in the future he would make the effort to travel
00:31:37
Speaker 1: to lots more new countries. He loved learning about all
00:31:44
Speaker 1: the different traditions and cultures, and there were so many
00:31:48
Speaker 1: out there to discover. Peanut closed his eyes and let
00:31:55
Speaker 1: his breathing fall to a steady pace. He wondered what
00:32:02
Speaker 1: delights he would encounter tomorrow. Peanut fell asleep and dreamt
00:32:10
Speaker 1: that he was an expert sulser dancer performing on a
00:32:15
Speaker 1: stage with a live band in the audience. The dancing
00:32:22
Speaker 1: jaguars bowed down to him, and the two con waitress
00:32:28
Speaker 1: cheered with support, while the white faced monkey from the
00:32:34
Speaker 1: beach handed out cocoanuts to the audience. It was a
00:32:40
Speaker 1: funny dream, and Peanut enjoyed every moment of it. He
00:32:46
Speaker 1: slept soundly that night, with sweet dreams entertaining him the
00:32:53
Speaker 1: whole night long, and awaited a new day of his blissful,
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Speaker 1: relaxing vacation.