Are you ready to meditate with Kari?
Make sure that you're laying down and you're all comfortable in your bed.
Everything is just right in your room.
The lights are just right.
Your pajamas are comfy.
Everything is good to go so that you can listen to the story and completely relax your body.
Heidi,
Cherry and Veya's parents had rented this place for the weekend as a little getaway from the rest of the world.
It had a big giant pool in the back garden and their friend Aaron was about to celebrate his birthday so the cats thought it would be a good idea to invite Aaron and his friend Xander to do like a swimming weekend.
They could come over,
They could have so much fun and just hang out with the cats and do all sorts of fun games in the pool.
Of course the cats were really really excited to see their friends because it had been a long time and they'd not got to see them for absolutely ages.
Especially with it being Aaron's birthday.
It was a sunny afternoon and they were all playing in the pool.
Recently Heidi had been talking to Cherry and Veya about mythology.
It was something that she was interested in and she was starting to learn quite a lot about the Greek gods and goddesses and all of the different roles and the different stories.
Everyone actually loved mythology so they were playing a game in the pool where Cherry had decided that Aaron was going to be a Greek god and because Aaron had got his black belt in Taekwondo she was trying to merge the two things together.
You know,
You know Aaron,
You know,
You know what would you be called?
What would you be called if your character right now was like a Greek god or something?
Something like erm,
Twa,
Erm,
Taekwondo,
Taekwondromeda,
I got it,
I got it,
Taekwondromedus.
Taekwondromedus,
Aaron can be known as Taekwondromedus.
Can't he Heidi?
Can't he Heidi?
Heidi said.
Well that all depends Cherry because if you're referring to the goddess known as Andromeda and you're kind of mixing it up with an Andromedus then maybe there's a mix up,
Cherry said.
You know you don't have to always be so factual.
You know you don't have to always be so to the book,
Heidi.
We can make things up,
Can't we?
So I'm thinking Aaron can be called Taekwondromedus because it suits him.
It mentions his black belt and how brave he is and then also you know thinking about it,
It could possibly be connected to Andromeda because isn't she that one that gets like er eaten by a monster?
Heidi said.
Well Andromeda was a goddess that was so beautiful.
Apparently her parents were boasting about how beautiful she was and this made the sea gods very angry because you know obviously the sea gods thought that they were more beautiful than anything else and when the sea gods were really really angry her parents tied her up on a rock as a sacrifice to the sea gods to not make them angry anymore.
They said oh oh me thinks that's just awful.
That's just terrible.
That's like me being a princess or a goddess and me being sacrificed because because my fur is so nice and fluffy and white.
Heidi said yeah it would be just like that.
And then she said oh they'd sacrifice me.
Of course they'd sacrifice me straight away because I'm so awesome.
I'm so good at so many things and you know you know in those days for you when gods and goddesses and all that Greek champion stuff and everything was going on then you know if you were ginger you were even more special than white.
Not to like dampen you know your white fur or anything but my ginger fur was so much more precious I think.
Right Heidi right.
Heidi said I have absolutely no clue where you got that from Cherry.
Aaron and Xander started laughing because Cherry was doing her normal cherry thing where she of course was much more important than anybody else.
Cherry didn't pay any attention to Heidi and just carried on.
Yeah so yeah they would have gone oh my gosh look at her ginger hair.
Look at it.
It's so delightful.
It's like a golden fire bursting from the sky and they'd have tied me up wouldn't they.
In fact let's do that.
Can we role play.
Can we role play.
OK I'm on a rock.
Cherry sat on the side of the pool as if she was tied to a rock.
I can't move.
I can't move.
My paws are all tied up together and I'm a pretty absolutely breathtakingly delicious goddess.
And my name is Cherry Athena.
N N N N N N N N N N Tway.
Tway.
Oh gosh this is so hard to remember.
Some of the names are really difficult.
Taekwondromodus.
The god.
He's going to save me.
And then and then and then you know what you know what Xander.
Xander you could be Perseus.
Is that right Heidi because I think that's right isn't it.
Wasn't it Perseus that actually saves Athena.
Heidi said wow Cherry good memory.
Yes Perseus actually saves her from the sea monsters so she doesn't get sacrificed after all.
They said oh me thinks that Perseus dude is so handsome and thank goodness for Perseus because oh that would have been awful just awful for Athena if she'd got eaten by the monsters.
Aaron said I will be brave Cherry Athena and I am going to save you from the sea monsters.
Cherry said and Xander too Xander too.
Both of you save me.
Save me together because then that will make me feel even more important.
But also it means that there's so many sea monsters in the sea.
I have an idea.
I have an idea.
All these like blow up things in the in the pool that we've got we can protect that they're actually real monsters and they're gonna get us.
They're gonna get you two especially because you're trying to save me and I'm so beautiful and and and and and and because you're trying to save me the sea monsters get even more angry.
So this is my plan guys.
This is my plan.
Go all the way to the other side of the pool right.
Go all the way to the other side of the pool.
The pool.
Oh I have to breathe just a minute.
Alright go all the way to the other side of the pool and then and then jump in and then and then hidey.
Fire fire fire.
You guys attack Aaron and Xander and and attack him with the blow up blow up pool things and then and then they'll feel like they've been attacked by the sea monsters.
And then and then because they're so brave because they can do taekwondo and especially because Aaron's a black belt then he bashes them and he taekwondo chops them and he taekwondo kicks them and he taekwondo like roly polys them and then and then they break through the monsters and then they get to the to where I am.
The most beautiful of all Greek goddesses.
Cherry Athena.
And the sun is bursting down on me ginger fur and it's gleaming like fireballs on the rocks and and you guys say oh I don't think I can save her because she's so amazingly beautiful.
Veo said I think maybe I'd like to be a goddess.
Cherry said oh no no there's only one goddess in this story.
You can be a goddess next time.
We've got all weekend.
We can play all different games all weekend.
You can be a goddess next time and I'm gonna be you can be like a goddess princess.
Oh what could you be called?
Like Veo Luminosity.
That's so nice.
Veo Luminosity and she's a goddess of light.
I'm so smart.
I'm so clever.
Anyway anyway get back to me get back to me.
Aaron Aaron.
Oh do you know what I just have an even better idea.
You know what you can do.
You know what you can do guys.
You can can dive off that trampoline because I know you like trampoline.
Put the trampoline by the side of the pool and then pull it really close and then bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce.
Dive into the water like a great god and then and then and then bash all the blow up toys like bash them bash them.
Kick kick defend defend.
You're so brave.
You're so confident.
You're so amazing.
You're not stressed about any of these monsters because you two you two like my best friends and I actually think you know without playing this mythology stuff game I think you're really really awesome and Aaron you know you're so brave being a black belt and you know you know I always look at you and I think he's so nice he's so sweet and and you know we've got so much in common because you know we're so good.
We're so amazing at stuff.
I mean you have to be amazing you know Aaron to be a black belt and you know and I love how you're very creative and you know some of the things that you make with Lego is absolutely unbelievable.
Anyway what was this enough about you Aaron enough about you.
Yeah you just be a Greek god.
Okay be a Greek god for me and I will just do my thing as the bestest most beautifulest most fantastic most awesomest OMG goddess that there has ever been.
In history you know like how you sometimes listen to these stories Heidi that you're telling us about mythology and you're talking about these stories and I think no that could have never happened.
There's no way like a god could lift lift a whole mountain or like or like or like you know that one with the snakey head what she called now with the snakey head you know the one that's really scary and I couldn't sleep that night you told us about her because I kept waking up and thinking about noodles and like gummy worms and anything that was like really scary that looked like the snakey woman that had snakes coming out of her head what she called.
Heidi said are you talking about Medusa.
Cherry said yeah yeah that one you know you think no way no way can some some monster turn you into stone.
It's not possible or like when there's like half tiger half like you know horse or something there's some crazy stories in this stuff in this mythology stuff and you know I'm like oh it just came to me it just came to me Heidi.
Aaron,
Xander,
Thea they must have had amazing amazing amazing imaginations.
That's it that's probably it half of it's probably not even true it's just imagination but you know when you imagine something it can be true can't it because it's real for you isn't it like you know like when you're creating stuff you know like when you go in the woods Aaron and you play with your friends and you like make up characters and you do stories and stuff like that I love to do that I love to do that I love it when we hang out and we do that well you know when you do that that's just your imagination and tip and if we didn't have an imagination then where would we be life would be so boring and you know some people get so stressed about stuff in a way really that's just another form of imagination because you know what you know what I learned I was talking to Corey and I learned that you know if you have like anxiety or you get like stressed or just worried about stuff you know what's happening to people they're just using their imagination the wrong way they're using their imagination in a way that makes them like suffer about the silliest things like they're just worrying and thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking and then that thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking causes anxiety in the brain and then that makes them stressed and then sometimes they get all panicky and oh before you know it you've got no confidence,
You're so stressed,
You're not very outgoing,
You've got low self-esteem and then that's all for your problems and then you end up having to go see someone like Corey to get some help because you know you've just done it to yourself using your imagination in the wrong way.
So I say just like all these mythology geologists and things,
I say we use our imagination right now this whole weekend in a really fun healthy way.
We're gonna we're gonna just be so confident and we're gonna be so outgoing and so adventurous and you know fair fair you know you could just be rather than be like a goddess of light you could be something else you could be like part cat part unicorn or you could be like what would you want to be Faea what would you want to be?
Faea said hmm I think maybe me would like to be part princess part hmm part prince oh said Cherry like like half man half woman amazing awesome idea yeah so you could do that and then you know what else what else oh and then you know how you can speak Korean Aaron you know how you can speak Korean you could be like this Greek well not Korean no you won't be Greek would you you'd be Korean you could be a Korean god and you could come swooping out of the sky flying like a flying monkey or something and you could be like what can you say in Korean Aaron Aaron said you could say hello how do you say hello in Korean Aaron Aaron said annual I see all oh um said cherry oh well annual I see hello annual I see annual I see annual I see annual I see oh I'm sorry Aaron that's just a little bit too challenging for me so you can be a Greek god and you can speak English please and you can like swoop down from the sky no no no because we've got oh gosh that will have to be another story when you swoop down from the sky and you can maybe save me in a different way this time right now you're gonna save me from the sea monsters because remember I'm cherry Athena and I'm so beautiful and then when you get when you get close to me guys you and Xander have to somehow pretend that you can't breathe you can't breathe because I'm so beautiful like this like this oh I can't breathe oh you're so beautiful and I'll say I know I know guys I know but just calm down a little bit calm down because you know there's nothing worse than the sniveling god and you have to be a very like brave god right you have to be so brave and so confident be confident okay when you come and swoop me up be confident Aaron and Xander did exactly what cherry said they went to the other side of the pool they jumped up and down quite a few times on the trampoline at one point they were jumping too much and cherry got impatient hurry up they stopped jumping they dived into the pool they fought with all the different toy pool blow up things there was one that was like a Loch Nessie thing you know Nessie that that sea that monster that was in Scotland in the Loch Ness anyway one of them looked just like that but really it looked like kind of like a dinosaur or something it was just unusual but it was the perfect blow-up toy that could represent a sea monster that was going to like use cherry as some kind of sacrifice for making them all so angry because they were much more beautiful than cherry Athena they did taekwondo on everything that attacked them that was really not attacking them they were just being pushed at them in their direction in the pool by Heidi and via which was perfect because it looked very real they finally got to cherry they undid cherries pretend chains swooned over her beauty they couldn't breathe they couldn't think they were very very confident gods and she loved it you guys afterwards while they were having an apple snack by the side of the pool you guys said cherry you were absolutely amazing I was so proud I was so proud when you were fighting off all of those like monsters in the pool you did it so good and it was so realistic Heidi didn't think it was realistic via didn't you just think they did so good they said hmm me thinks you did so good Heidi said yes you were very very real like very very good role playing she said I know right OMG I was just so impressed and I think it's because you have such good imaginations that's it that's it it's like all that practice when you play games in the woods and stuff and when you're building stuff and you've been so creative and you know like when you're doing those card games that you do when you're just making up characters Aaron,
Sander you guys were just ace you were so good you were ace and I'm just impressed what should we do later?
They all chatted about what games they were going to play the whole weekend really they were in the pool so much that weekend that all the little paws went wrinkly the boys fingers went wrinkly the toes were wrinkly everything was wrinkly but they played so hard by the end of the day when it came to settling down into bed and just relaxing letting go of their day they literally all of them just snored instantly they would put their heads on their pillows and they were just gone out so happy so tired after having day long adventures and fun and just being with each other being with their friends having the bestest times they just snored instantly they all snuggled in together in the same room kept each other warm and had the bestest getaway weekend anyone could possibly have for their birthday.
The end.
