Tiny Town

I was surfing through blogs and found someone with pictures of Tiny Town. I didn't even know if it was in Colorado so I decided to google it and lo and behold it is only 45 minutes away. So, today after church we decided to take a trip out to Morrison, Colorado to visit Tiny Town. Again, the weather was phenomenal and the day was wonderful.

Tiny Town is a place that has been around since 1916 and it has replicas of real buildings in Colorado but they are made to 1/6th the size. Some of the houses, or buildings, you can walk into and play. Others are closed in but you can look through the windows and they are decorated inside. It is quite amazing all of the work that has gone into this place. The conductor told us that there are about 14 of the original buildings but many of the originals were wiped out when the town was flooded three years in a row (sounds like my kind of luck!). There are over 100 buildings and it's a really neat place to bring the kids. Cheap too! The whole family got in for $19 and the train rides are only $1 per person. It was a great time for the whole family.

Here is a picture of all of us on the train. You can't even see the train it's so small beneath us!


We took the first train ride when we arrived and then took another one right before we left. There is a caboose in the back that you can put the children into (it gets locked while the train is in motion). We let them do the caboose on the second trip and they thought it was pretty neat..

Okay, here's something funny. The train has to go up this little hill and it couldn't make it up. After a couple minutes of just barely inching along the conductor gets out and starts to push. Then he calls for help and all the men get out to push with him. I couldn't get my camera out fast enough for the actual pushing but here is Jimmy just as he was getting done and about to hope back in. Too funny!

A little opera anyone?

Either my bum has gotten big or.......???? Surely it has to be the or!!

The train ride is up at the entrance. Then you walk along the houses and buildings. At the end of that is this great big playground. The kids played here for about and hour and half and loved it. They even had some a log cabin (the "tiny" version, of course) that the kids really enjoyed playing in. What fun!

All in all it was another perfect weekend in Colorado! Next weekend it's off to a chicken farm that also has a restaurant....we get to pet our meal before we eat it?? This should be interesting!!