The Dinosaur Hole 🦕🦖

This week, there’s a hole in the neighborhood field, and it keeps getting deeper! Four kids decide to find out what’s in the hole…and find a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs and magic! They ride a T-Rex, help the Loch Ness Monster, and narrowly avoid a mistake that could have trapped them there! Join us on a fun adventure through time and magic 🦕🦖

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♪Foggy Oak Farm ♪♪ Foggy Oak Farm ♪♪ Come on down to ♪♪ Foggy Oak Farm ♪- Hi friends. Welcome to Foggy Oak Fairy Tales. Each week, we'll bring you a new story. Some weeks, we'll share a story based on what's been happening on our real-life Foggy Oak Farm, where we have all sorts of animals and adventures. Other weeks, we'll use our imaginations and create new adventures together. I'm so glad you're here. This week, there's a hole in the neighborhood field, and it keeps getting deeper. Four kids decide to find out what's in the hole, and find a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs and magic. They ride a T-Rex, help the Loch Ness monster, and narrowly avoid a mistake that would have trapped them there. Join us on a fun adventure through time. One morning, the neighborhood kids woke up, and there was a hole. At first, it wasn't a very big hole, but they noticed it there. There in the field, seeming like it was leading into the gentle slope of the hill next to it. No one had seen anyone digging, but the hole was there nonetheless. Shallow looking, but wide enough for a child to squeeze into, if it had been deeper. That weekend, the neighborhood kids all gathered as if of one mind, next to the hole. Hey, Cassie, did you guys dig that hole when we weren't looking? One of the kids asked the tall eight year old standing to the side of the hole. No, I had nothing to do with it. Cassie responded,"Do you guys think maybe it's gotten a little deeper, though?" She asked, bending down a bit to peer into the hole. The others clustered closer. It did look a little bit deeper. Hey, somebody get in there. Let's see how far down it really goes. An eight year old named Toby suggested. Two five year olds stepped closer. I don't really want to get in there. Lila said, "Me neither, Aurora, the other five year old responded. Just then, all the children heard various parents calling them to dinner. Tomorrow maybe Cassie suggested as they all headed off in different directions to their homes." That night, the kids whose houses were near the hole, noticed a strange glowing light emerging from its depth. It didn't go out, it didn't waver. It just shone like a beacon calling to them. The next morning, as soon as they were up and breakfasted, all of the neighborhood kids ran back to meet up the hole. I saw a light shining from it all night. One kid declared looking nervously at the now, not shining hole. Another child cautiously approached near and peered down. It's definitely deeper. I can't see the bottom anymore. As all the children came closer to assess the new depth of the hole, a faint light, not the bright beacon of the night before, but still definitely a light began faintly shining up through the inky blackness of the hole. Okay, that definitely wasn't happening yesterday, Toby announced looking around in amazement to his friends. Well, there's nothing else for it, Cassie responded. Obviously, we have to go check it out. She smiled mysteriously at her friends. Twelve kids from the neighborhood in total had come out that morning, and it was decided that they would investigate in groups of four, safety in numbers and all that. As two of the oldest kids, Toby and Cassie were nominated to go first. Lila and Aurora, the five year olds, insisted on traveling with them. Toby, as the most curious, was happy to be first, while the other three prepared to follow behind him. There was some debate in the group about whether a parent should be told. But after all, it was just a hole. What could happen in a hole? Even a hole with a mysterious light coming out of it that was getting suspiciously deeper by the day. The four kids started to make their way down into the faintly glowing darkness of the hole. Once all four of them had made it in, they heard a strange voice that seemed to come from both everywhere and nowhere, call out to them. Welcome visitors! Do ye no harm to the creatures you encounter and no harm will come to thee. go forth to adventure! As the voice faded into nothing, the four children, now the four adventures, emerged into some kind of cave which glowed with the same strange light as the whole. The children saw a narrow opening beyond the main chamber, which created a small entrance just big enough for the kids to squeeze through. Nodding to one another, they followed Toby out into the sunlight, and into a world unlike any they'd seen before. Lush, gigantic ferns grew all around them, with towering, large leafed trees interspersed. In places, the sunlight was filtered with a greenish cast from the abundance of gigantic plant life all around them. And more notably than the plant life, there were dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and other prehistoric creatures everywhere. Every kind of dinosaur they had learned about or wondered about or heard of, regardless of time period or actual overlap, it seemed as though all they needed to do was think about a dinosaur for one to appear. pteradons, dimorphadons, and more flew high above them and around them, there were so many creatures it was almost impossible to process them all. A stegosaurus heard with their strong tall spikes lumbered by, trailed quietly by an interested looking allosaurus. Smaller, euro-parasaurus is scuttled by, and immense apatasoruses, grazed together in the distance. There were feathers, there were not feathers, there were colors, there were teeth, the dinosaurs, and pterosaurs ranged in color and presentation in a magnificent variety of shapes, sizes, and features. Awed, but not yet afraid, the children looked around them in wonder, sharing astonished glances every so often as a new dinosaur wondered by. However, it didn't take long for the dinosaurs to notice them. At first, it was just quick looks as creatures wandered by, but slowly the animals began to slow down and appeared to very much be smelling them and looking them over."Uh, that voice said nothing would hurt us right," Aurora asked in a worried voice."It did!" Toby started to say more, but that was when the T-rex showed up. It was indeed rather terrifying if not exactly as they had imagined it. This T-rex was lightly feathered, giant-eyed, and clearly a predator. It was followed, however, by a trail of fuzzy looking cute baby dinosaurs, that the kids realized could only be baby T-rex's. The grown-up T-rex shambled up to the group of kids, followed by its own children, and leaned down close, inhaling deeply through its nose. Everyone was surprised when they heard it."Are you food?" They heard it demand."You smell so different, but you do smell like food.""We are not food," Cassie said firmly putting up her hand."Yeah, we are not food," Lila and Aurora said in Unison. Cassie and Toby both stepped forward in front of the five-year-olds, just in case. But as soon as the T-rex leaned just a little bit closer to smell them again, a shield sprang up around the children out of nowhere. They could see through it, but it was definitely solid. The T-rex yelped in surprise."Ooh!" And stumbled backwards, almost tripping over its babies. Clearly, it had gotten some kind of shock to its sensitive nose from the shield. Circling pterodons who had been somewhat interested in coming lower to investigate the children, saw what had happened to the unfortunate T-rex and quickly sailed back to higher altitudes."Everyone again heard that strange voice from the hole.""No, no, creatures! You know perfectly well that the friends I bring here are not food!""Apologize!" And just like that, any sense of danger was over."I apologize, not food." The T-rex declared, bowing its head to the children."Perhaps I can make amends. Would you care for a ride? What is it you would like to see?""Well, if we are really safe, Toby muttered, looking up at the rather intimidating T-rex""You're really safe." The T-rex said, sounding a bit defeated."I know better than to eat not food.""In that case, Toby said, eyes lighting up as he looked at his friends, whose faces all lit up in the same way. Could you take us to see Nessie?""Ahhh, everyone always wants to see Nessie." The T-rex said to itself. "Climb on my tail, and I'll take you to her." Cautiously, the children clamored on to the lowered tail of the giant dinosaur. Once they were all aboard, the T-rex carefully lifted its tail and set off. It was a bit hard to hang onto that tail as it swayed and bounced a bit with the T-rex's movement, but they were all strong. Their legs and arms gripped the tail and they were able to stay on. Even if it did feel a bit like riding a bucking bronco. As the T-rex ran with them on its tail, they saw even more dinosaurs moving, flying, and crawling about. Hadressors and brachia-saurus munched together, velociraptors ran in packs, passing them on their hunt. The world was a light with life, and creatures the children had only ever been able to imagine. After a bit they came to a large lake."Nessie is always around here somewhere." The T-rex said lowering its tail. "If you call to her, I'm sure she'll come. She loves the attention.""Thanks T-rex," they said. "Nessie! Nessie!" They all cried out."From a bit down the shore they heard." "Oh, good! Finally, someone! I could really use some help here!" The children ran down the shore until they came to a cove. This shallow part of the lake contained none other than "Nessie." A giant, beautiful, and also rather intimidating, plesiosaur. "Hello, visitors!" "Nessie called to them. As you can see, I'm a bit of a bind here." The children looked, and sure enough, a giant tree had fallen over the mouth of the cove."Nessie was stuck." The water is deep enough to keep me wet, but there's no food here, and I was just swimming around enjoying myself when the tree fell and tapped me here."Do you think you could help me get out?""Of course, Nessie, we'll do what we can," Lila said reassuringly."Right, so we are not strong enough to move this tree, but I bet we could ask for some help," Toby said. The children looked at the tall, strong, net, brachiosaurus grazing your lake."Perfect!" they said, smiling to one another."Braciasaurus, excuse me, brachiasaurus!" Cassie said, walking up to the nearest group of them."Could you help us move a tree? You're so strong and tall, and you have such long necks, I think? That's exactly what we need to help Nessie." "Oh, um, Nessie's trapped in a cove, by the way." Cassie explained. "The brachiosaurus peered down at the group of children.""Oh, visitors!" They rumbleed in happiness. "Surdenly will help you,""since you ask so nicely, man." The children led the brachiosaurus back to the cove where Nessie was waiting."Nessie!" One of the brachiosaurus exclaimed, "Why didn't you call to ask us for help? How long have you been stuck here? Not cool!"Ack, I was embarrassed," Nessie responded, lowering her head. "I didn't usually get caught like this.""Well, we hope you do the same for us if we got stuck in the water." Another brachiosaurus said."Let's see what we can do about this, dudes." The group of them waited into the shallow water by part of large tree. "Yeah, this is groovy." "No trouble!" They muttered to themselves, and working together they pushed their long-nex under the branches of the fallen tree. Together they pulled the tree away from the mouth of the cove, and as they pulled they sang happily to one another to make the hard work more fun. "Heave, oeeve, oeeve, oeeve, move this tree on one, two, three, heave, oeeve, oeeve, move this tree with me." In no time at all the tree had moved away from the mouth of the cove enough that Nessie could slip by into deeper waters. "Thank you, friends," Nessie said to the brachiosaurus, "I will not forget your kindness and visitors, thank you for helping me get assistance when I was too embarrassed to ask for it." In return for your kindness, perhaps you would like a tour of the lake on my back. Nessie looked at the children expectantly. There was no question about that. The children looked in excitement and cried, "Yes! If a T-Rex's tail had been amazing, it was nothing to getting a tour of the giant lake from Nessie herself." Nessie moved closer back to the shore so that the children could climb up on her back. As they swam along, Nessie pointed out interesting sites to them. There by the shore a cliff where some of the flying dinosaurs made their nests. They are a deep spot in the lake where Nessie found particularly delicious fish. They're a warm spot where Nessie liked to bask in the water on sunny days. Hey Nessie, Aurora asked, Are you actually the same Nessie that lives in Loch Ness in Scotland? As a matter of fact, Nessie said turning her head around on her long neck and giving them a sort of smile, it's me and many others. Not all the creatures can leave this world but the plesiosaurs were found in the lake in the deepest part that happened to lead to your world. We didn't go there very often and we tried to go only one at a time but it is fun to pop over occasionally and surprise the tourists who are looking for us. If you go to Loch Ness in the future do you call me an"I'll pop over to say hello" won't that be fine? Nessie chuckled to herself. Hey, um is there food around here that we could have? Lila asked. I'm starting to get hungry and thirsty. The other children all nodded their agreement. They were too. Ah, there is but if I were you i wouldn't eat or drink while you're here sometimes all the rules didn't get told to visitors... and one is if you eat or drink while you're here you're gonna be stuck here for longer than I think you might wish to be. How long is that? Toby asked, well a few hundred years give or take until you complete some rather challenging quests. Nessie responded as she swam along. That doesn't sound good to me, Lila said emphatically. Who knows how long we've been gone anyway, Toby said. I think we probably ought to make our way back. That's probably a good idea, Nessie agreed. It was fun getting to show you the lake and I certainly appreciate your help. I hope you come back to visit if you can. Oh we definitely will over respond with a smile. Nessie took them back to the shore. The children all hugged her long neck before she swam back into deeper waters, bidding them goodbye and slipping beneath the surface to go look for fish. Nearby some triceratops had been grazing and they came over eagerly. Hey, why are you right back to the cave? A smaller younger looking tracerotops inquired. Oh we definitely would if you don't mind, Cassie said, we don't often get to see visitors. This will be an adventure. And we like adventures. The young tracerotops responded happily. It and three others walked over to the children and bathed them climb up as they got themselves down a bit so that the children could climb on. Each kid climbed on to their tracerotops. And in no time at all, they were running with them through the lush ferns back towards the cave. When they arrived, the tracerotops lowered themselves and the children back down to the ground and said, come back and visit some time and we'll take you to see our homes. We won't have to be fun. We would very much like that said Toby smiling at the excited tracerotops. Reluctantly, the children said goodbye to the tracerotops. Take one last look at the strange prehistoric world and one by one slipped back into the cave. They made their way to the back, found the mouth of the hole that went gently upwards and one by one began the climb up into their world. When they emerged, the sun hadn't moved much at all from its mid-morning position and as soon as the last of them climbed all the way out of the hole, they saw a trail of eight other children coming up through the hole behind them. The three groups of friends all stared at one another in shock and then simultaneously they exclaimed, "You will never believe what happened!" That's the end of the story for this week. Later on, we'll revisit our friends at the hole and find out what happened to the other two groups on their adventures. Thanks to my nephew Brody for requesting this story, he's turning eight this week. Happy birthday Brody, I love you! Remember, you're part of the story too. What did you think of this story? 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