Danger On Safari

Jess

Tori sighed with relief as Steve came back onto the bus without the spider. "I hate spiders. I have a phobia of them," she stated matter of factly.

Vera laughed. Steve slumped back next to me. "Ahh, the Elton John monkey has gone!" I laughed.

"Theres another one over there," I said pointing. Steve put his binoculars back up to his eyes.

"That one looks like Beyonce."

"Except that it's a male. You can tell from the distinctive markings around it's tail."

"Spare me the nature talk," Beth said jokingly. Rebbecca-Anne came down to the front of the bus with Mark they both leaned over to get a better view of the monkeys.

"They are cute," Rebbecca commented. I nodded in agreement. Jake stopped the bus.

"I want everyone to wind up their windows please. I am going to go and put some fruit on top of the bus, the monkeys should come over then," Jake told us. He exited the bus with a huge bucket of fruit.

"That's what the smell was," Steve joked, I ignored him.

"I can't believe that we are going to see the monkeys up so close!" I practically jumped out of my seat with excitement. Jake ran back into the bus and shut the door.

"Here they come everyone," he said. He beckoned us up to the front of the bus where we could see out of the windscreen. Everyone gasped in awe.

Rebbecca-Anne

As I sat closer to the window one monkey tapped on it hard, making the glass crack. Mark sat quietly next to me looking at the monkeys in awe.

"Lets hope they dont break any of the windows" i laughed as i looked back at the group.

I will not be here for a while, I am going on vacation. I will be gone for five days.

Ok Kaywiia, have a good holiday
We will keep writing you in ou rown posts so that you can pick it up when you get back.

Jess

We continued to watch the monkeys in fascination until they began to get bored of the fruit and the bus. Jake ushered everyone back to their seats and the bus rolled forwards. I sighed with happiness.

"You enjoying yourself?" Steve asked. I nodded gazing out of the window at the sunset, it was beautiful. Jake guided the bus out of the monkey compound.

"Ok everyone, we will reach the next compound in about 10 minutes. There we will camp." Jake told us.

"What's in that compound?" Rebecca-Anne asked.

"Nothing in theory, but we will still build a fire, to ward animals away."

Steve laughed. "I like a bit of adventure," he said.

After 10 minutes of beautiful scenery we arrived in the compound.

"Is anyone else camping here tonight?" I asked Jake.

"No, just us. We have the whole compound to ourselves."

Beth and Vera smiled. Tori walked down the bus to sit in the seat opposite me and Steve. The bus rolled to a stop.

"Here we are. The tents are at the back of the bus, one for the ladys and one for the the men." Everyone piled out of the bus. Rebecca-Anne and Max carried out the tents. Steve volunteered to put the tents up.

"Anyone else going to help?" Jake asked. Steve grabbed my wrist and raised my hand.

"Hey!" I shouted. "That's rude."

Steve and Jake laughed.

"Jess, Steve, thanks for voluteering."

I groaned. The others set off to get water from the river that was a little way to the left and Steve and I were left to sort out the tents.

Steve Dawn

Me and Jess started with the first batch of tents and I noticed she was murmuring something under her breath.

"Not gonna be quite as nice as fresh sheets and warm quilts tonight," I joked.

She smiled abruptly and looked at me. "I can't stand tents!" She shouted.

"Hey, hey," I said. "Everyone can stand tents, just need to have a laugh while doin' so!"

She looked at me, confused.

I began whistling a jolly little song and singing an odd lyric and Jess burst into laughter.

"What?" I said.

"You're whistling Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," she said.

"I know, right!" I replied, "C'mon join in."

And as I started whistling again, she faintly began to join in and we whistled in harmony as we put up the tents.

"Now, you gotta put the whistle in the hips!" I exclaimed.

"What?" she asked.

"Y'know," I said, swinging my hips to-and-fro, whistling and putting a tent stake into the ground, "Put the whistle in the hips."

"Ah... right" she said, giggling at the idea, but it wasn't long before she too joined in.

"Damn, Steve." She said, "You really know how to brighten up a situation, don't ya?"

"Sure do." I replied, winking and then continuing with the whistling.