Day 12: Denver Part II

After our day of rest we were ready for another day of fun! Our first destination was a place called Tiny Town. Once again none of us had ever been there so did not know what to really expect. (We had looked it up online and my Aunt recommended it, but that still doesn't quite get you ready for what you are going to experience!)
Basically, it is an entire town in miniature. Many of the buildings were exact replicas of buildings in and around Denver (built to 1/6 the actual size), others were just buildings they created that housed a specific business for the town patrons, and others were based on famous homes like the Addams Family Mansion! Once inside the town you can walk along and look in the small windows to see what is going on. There was a theater where they had small chairs and small characters viewing the play. (The characters were plastic figurines of characters like bugs bunny) Other homes you could go inside, or at least the kids could go inside and look out at us through the windows.
There was even a miniature train that we rode on that took us into parts of the town you can not walk through. Some of the homes in this area were built in the 1920's! There are some pictures of visitors driving their Model T's to the park. So this place has been around a long time! Which I guess is why they are actually a town you can find on the map of Colorado and not just an amusement type park in another city!


Once we had our fill of living the "Big" life we headed over to Heritage Square! We have been there before, but never really done anything but the Alpine Slide. And we did not even really know what else they had to offer. When we arrived we started out in the ride area. But this ride area is typically what you find at a County Fair. So there were mostly rides that went in circles. Now, if you know anything about Rachel and I you know we are not big fans of going on rides like the Teacups! So the thought of having to ride something like that was not appealing to our sense of well being! We bought each of the bigger kids 10 tickets they could use to ride (most rides were 2 tickets each), the only problem was Cuter was not tall enough to ride alone. Which meant someone was going to have to ride with him. (Adults ride free with paying children.)
My Mom took the first shift and rode two rides in a row with the kids- both of which were pretty much straight circles! Then the kids wanted to ride a snake roller coaster, which looked very similar to the dragon at the Mini Grand Prix in Vegas. So Rachel and I both rode that one because Cutler and Quincy needed an adult. It wasn't too bad other than being quite a jerky ride. (I felt bad for Quincy as I felt like I was pummeling her with my elbows. But if I didn't hold on to the bar then I was squishing her along the sides of the car. So it was a lose-lose situation!)
Luckily for us the tickets ran out fairly quickly! So we could move on to the Alpine Slide. That was also a good incentive to get them out of the Carnival ride area- but we didn't plan that at all ;)

The slide was fun. I rode down for the first time with a passenger. I have never carried a child with me before, and it is a lot harder than riding down solo. To work the sled you have to push the brake forward, which lessens the friction on the bottom of the sled. Well, when you have a child sitting in front of you it is much harder to push that lever down, mostly because you feel like you are bending your partner in half! But Quincy was a good sport and wanted to keep going faster so I did my best to accommodate her wishes! Rydman and Emerie went down solo again and loved it. Emerie left before my Mom on the slow track while my Mom was in the Fast track and she still managed to beat her by a little bit. So Emerie was not afraid of it at all this go round!

After riding the slide we headed down to check out the Zip Line. It was $3 for 3 trips across the wire, and even though we did not think Cutler coudl do it he climbed right up to the platform and decided he was going to. (At least until they attached him to the line the first time.) So they rigged all the kids up in a harness and then started clipping them one by one onto the line. Rydman and Emerie were fine, but Quincy and Cutler were not too sure they wanted any part of this Zip Line thing once they were attached and hanging over the edge of the platform. But the operator just started counting down 3, 2, 1.. and then sent them sailing on their way next to their other siblings. Which was a good thing, once they were past that first drop experience you could not hold either of them back. Cutler got to the other side and exclaimed that he loved it! So they rushed right back up and did it again. They enjoyed themselves so mush we paid for another 5 rides each!

The kids could have probably stayed there all day long, but we didn't have the funds to keep paying for things a ride at a time. Places like this really make you start to appreciate Disneyland a whole lot more!
We ran a few errands on the way home as we needed to pick up such items as Diapers and wipes as our stock has been depleted over the past weeks. we then spent a pretty early evening at Chuck and Anna's. We hooked the Wii up and got to check out the Wii Fit which I now really want even more than before!!! Too bad it is not in stock anywhere- unless you want to pay twice as much at some random online store! (It is supposed to be about $80 but goes for upwards of $150 online!) Maybe it will come back in stock sometime!!