It's All Good: Going Home, part 4

Cheekwood

We spent the day with my dad at Cheekwood Estate in Franklin that was having a Treehouse exhibition. Each treehouse was based on a book. Cheekwood is a really cool place to go, even if they aren't doing anything extra. They have art exhibits and lots of gardens to walk through and explore. We've gone before over Easter for a giant egg hunt when the girls were little.

I can't remember what this one was, but it looked cool.

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Stairs to climb up, slide to get down.

This next one was our favorite. Something happened as I uploaded these pictures and they didn't upload all the way, so I had to do it again and now there are some at the end of the post, out of order. This was a Robinson Crusoe treehouse.

I almost didn't include this one, but I thought it was funny so I did. I was taking a picture of my kids and this little boy (green shirt) came busting through them to be in the picture. Afterwards, my kids were like, 'that was weird.' Maybe you had to be there, but at the time it was funny:)

Four on the outside of the treehouse (obviously)

This one was the conch from Lord of the Flies

sign on the approach to the conch treehouse

From a distance the kids weren't really interested in this one, but I insisted that we visit each and every treehouse. It's a good thing we did because they had a great time at this one, swinging from the poles and climbing up the boards. There were even masks outside the conch that they could hold up to their faces.

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Hanging inside the conch

A picture from this next one is down at the bottom also. This was the pirate ship from PeterPan. This was a big hit, too.

One climbing up, Three climbing down, BoyOne at the top

The approach to the next treehouse. Can't remember the book for this one either.

View of the front is pretty plain, but then you go to the back and it's pretty awesome, but you'll have to scroll down to the bottom to see because the next picture didn't upload!!

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This is the slide to exit the above treehouse.

Bet you can guess this one! Rainbow Fish! This was a really fun one to look at. Pretty boring for the kids as there was not anything to climb on or hang from:)

They used CDs for the outside of it. Clever, don't you think!!

Tried to get a good picture of all six of them and this was as good as it got. Oh well!

The beginning of the out of order ones:

Three, Four, One, BoyOne

Two and BoyTwo were in a timeout for taking off without the rest of us:(

The outside of the Robinson Crusoe treehouse. The kids loved the swing underneath and all of the poles to climb on, which I'm sure wasn't the intention when it was built, but nonetheless, they enjoyed them.

The PeterPan pirate ship

This is the backside of the one made of crates that looked really plain from the front. Right next to this is the long slide that One is coming down (above)

Can't remember the book for this one either. But I loved looking at it.

With Papa John, the man that made this all possible:)

The Cheekwood mansion. It's pretty big.

One of the ponds. If I remember right (which really isn't any more than 50% likely, let's be honest, my brain is mush), this is the same pond that the string treehouse was in.