Like Tarzan...Only Less Hairy

Did anyone else catch this great piece on tree houses courtesy of CBS Sunday Morning (aka the 'Greatest Show on Television') yesterday?

I never had a tree house myself, but one of my childhood friends did. To the untrained eye, it was a rickety platform of weathered boards haphazardly nailed together.  A ladder of wooden slats tacked onto the trunk as an afterthought.

To us, it was a castle. We spent many happy, summer afternoons defending it from a band of marauding outlaws (aka her little brother and his cooty-infested friends).

I loved that little tree house, but let's just say it would look like a shanty compared with today's models. Especially, the ones they're making for big kids these days. There's a place, featured in the Sunday Morning story, called Treehouse Point in Issaquah, WA (near Seattle). It's a sort of tree house hotel with four, suspended cabins to choose from. Tarzan Happy Dance!

I'm kind of obsessed with staying in the 'Trillium.' Isn't it romantic?
 

{Images via Treehouse Point}