There were two pigeons called Bertie and Lily.
They lived in an old rickety shed in Rome
They were fed up living in Rome, so they sat down on one of the big statues to talk about where they could move to.
"Where shall we go" said Lily.
"We could go to London" said Bertie.
"No, I don't think so" said Lily. " Because it is too dirty and busy like Rome."
"We could go to the seaside" said Bertie.
"I like the seaside, but I don't like all the Seagulls." said Lily.
"They are nasty, horrible birds. I want to go somewhere completely different" she added.
The two pigeons sat on the top of the Colosseum as the sun went down.
They were still sitting there as night fell over the big city.
Lily was just dozing off to sleep, when Bertie poked her with his beak.
"Lily ". said Bertie. " We could go to live on the moon".
No, I don't like cheese" said Lily sleepily.
"What " replied Bertie.
"You are a silly pigeon. Don't you know the moon is made of cheese." she replied closing her eyes again.
Bertie sat looking at the sky. I wonder if there is another planet we could go to he thought.
He couldn't sleep so he began pecking around a pile of rubbish near where they were sleeping.
In the remains of a picnic he found an old sandwich and a MARS BAR.
He flew back to Lily.
" I have got it. We can go to MARS"........
Lily was just waking up, she rubbed her eyes.
"But we will need to build a spaceship to get there."
"We will have to convince some pigeons to help us." said Bertie.
Lily began to fly round the Colosseum inviting them to come along to a meeting.
Lily and Bertie told all the other pigeons their plan to build a spaceship.
Some flew away saying it was a stupid idea. But some stayed to help.
A very clever pigeon called Leonardo said he could help.
" We need to find lots of old things to make the spaceship" he said
Bertie, Lily and Leonardo worked very hard for a month to build their amazing SPACESHIP.
They even built a food dispenser as it is a long way to Mars,
When they had finished they flew with the rocket to the top of St Peter's Church.
The next morning, very early they put on their space helmets, climbed in the spaceship.
When all the pigeons were inside ready to go, they started the countdown
Then they had LIFT OFF !
They flew to Mars, eating their supplies on the way.
It took a few weeks to get there.. but they were all very happy and sang songs all the way there.
One day looking out of the cockpit window they saw MARS
HURRAY, they said all jumping up and down.
"Right" said Leonardo. "Lets get ready to land on MARS.
They could not believe their eyes when they landed because they discovered MARS is made of chocolate.
They were all very happy and lived there for a long, long time.
