Tree house adventure

Saturday 10th August

This is a guest blog by Pumpkin junior who is staying with us this week enjoying some of the hot weather.  In G and C's garden there are lots of tall trees so they thought it would be fun to go and see some tree house possibilities at a tree house festival.  The festival was at Tyler arboretum about 20mins drive.  We went in about 10 different tree houses.  My favourite was one which was up on a platform and decorated with really amazing coloured stones.  I liked it because it was pretty and I like pretty things.  The grown ups liked the one which had curved supports and a see through platform but that might be a bit difficult to build.  There was also a competition for a garden chair design - we liked playing on the one like the hungry caterpillar because we could balance on the caterpillar body. We also visited the butterfly house and saw more monarchs and we also played some games to guess what everyday objects came from trees and also finding out about different bird beaks.  I liked the hawk beak and using it to dig up a mouse.   It was very hot so we went back for a splash in the pool.