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| Me and my brother, Lukas, hiding out from invaders. |
...or one made from snow...
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| More of a tunnel than anything else...our igloo skills got better over time. |
...or even one you couldn't see on the kitchen floor...
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| Take that hill! |
...forts were all around us and were constantly being built.
There was a wooded area behind my house, known simply as "The Woods." And me and my brother and the neighborhood kids would play back there for hours. We assembled a fort around one of the trees in the middle of The Woods, using old logs and boards and bits of plywood that we found out there (in hindsight, it was more of a dumping ground than an actual forest).
The last time I went in the fort, a hornet flew up and bit me right under my eye. The years of memory have built up this event to the point where I now remember actually seeing it's face as it came in for the sting. I think a little part of my childhood died that day, because I never went back to the fort.
We hadn't made a fort of our own with Elliot yet, so last night, we folded in our Friday tradition (dinner and a movie in the living room), with doing just that!
Elliot thought it was really exciting to be on the ground in the fort and watching the movie of the week with us (this week's selection was the original Iron Man), even if his constant questioning of the movie made it hard to hear. He had a hard time getting Tony Stark was Iron Man, the alter ego was the same as the superhero... which makes him sound like a reporter at the Daily Planet...
Eleanor and Merlin had a good time...
...and so did Elizabeth..,
I thought it was pretty cool too...
Hopefully it will be a place free of hornet stings.
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