This weekend the weather was pretty mild, in the 50's during the day, so Bethany and Felicia along with 3 of their girlfriends in the neighborhood played out in the woods behind our neighbor's house all day on Saturday. They had divided up between them into two teams and each team built a fort out of logs from fallen trees, any thing else they could find back there. They worked on these all day and Bethany took lots of pictures with her new digital camera she got for Christmas so I saw their handiwork. They were pretty good sized structures! They came home for a snack around 3pm, then went back over for the last hours of daylight and when they got back there was a family waiting for them, taking apart their forts, which they had built on this family's property! The man they encountered , along with his wife and child told them that they had actually built the forts on THEIR property and they had to remove them because they didn't want the kids to get hurt and them be held liable. It sounded like he was very nice about it, but the girls were very put out!! We listened to them vent, then gently told them that the neighbor was right and wasn't it better that he was nice about it instead of yelling at them?
But, boy could I feel their pain after putting in all those hours creating their own "Teribithia".
this didn't deter them, though. On Sunday after lunch, they decided to go back and rebuild, but this time on THEIR side of the creek!
(I have to downlaod Bethany's camera for pictures, maybe can add them later)
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