Welcome to our treehouse :3



It was on the very back of the garden, and pretty easy to miss if you weren't a group of bored kids playing explorers during their summer holiday


There wasn´t much furniture inside, but we could always imagine everything we needed for our games!


Now that I think about it, next to the fire pole had to be a pulley with a tin bucket on one end. We used to take mud potions and juice boxes up and down and make announcements of what was comming through the windows



treehouse inside



Even though there weren't any more guests at the hotel, we tried to keep our voices down during the afternoon. We all gathered up in the treehouse with a book and practice reading in our minds like we were being taughht in school


Sometimes one of us read out loud and the rest sat around them to listen. The books used to feel so big in our hands...




treehouse library Some books
Books

If I concentrate I can still feel the the way the sunlight poured inside the window, warming up a rectangle on the wooden floor. Brais got cold easily, so he sat on that rectangle most days, closing his eyes at times and moving slightly when the hours made the sunlight move


Lucas sat by his side and read in silence or corrected Milo and me when we were reading out loud. I didn't do a bad job, but Milo had the most adventurous reading voice I ever heard. He made up voices for the different characters and made long pauses to translate their feelings. Even Odile, who was usually frolicking around everywhere, sat through all Milo's stories looking at him in awe



treehouse ventana






I miss when Milo was like that sometimes. Always enthusiastic, making up stories and games for all of us and cheerfully filling our lives with adventure. I guess we all have changed a lot since then. I guess I, too, have changed...