Box Fort aka. Hobo Village OC

On Thursday Dan told me that he wanted to build a fort for the kids out of cardboard after school on Friday. I 1/2 way believed him... but found out he was obsessively serious. I thought it would be impossible to find any cardboard boxes big enough and wasn't too excited about having a mess of cardboard in the backyard for who knows how long....

So after school on Friday, he picked up the kids and headed out to hunt for cardboard. He came home with a washing machine box from a appliance store (which he placed on the top of the car and held onto with his hand through the sunroof to get it home... an act that I argued was very dangerous and he argued wasn't). But I quickly got over my argumentative state when he showed me what he found out back with the trash......2 awesome leather Lane recliners! I have been looking for gaming/lounge chairs to put out in the garage to replace 2 bean bags and these were in great condition. I am assuming they were in the "Dolby" room or for a big screen display. Dan went inside and discreetly asked the one of the guys if he could take them and the guy said yes. As we sat in them last night.. it occured to us that we probably took off with the "Smokers Lounge". And someone is not going to be happy with the guy who said Dan could take them.

Dan worked for 4 hours on the fort and made each kid their own room. They had windows with plastic wrap and doggie doors. When I took a tour it reminded me of the "Hobo Village "underneath Las Vegas. They played in it until 10:00 and then were in it first thing this morning. They have taken pillows/blankets/crayons/dolls/lava lamps... and basically 1/2 of their bedrooms out into that Fort. I am dreading the yard clean-up after this one... but the kids are loving it... so thats all that matters..... right?

P.S. We looked up the chairs on Lane.com and they retail for $1200/each! SCORE!