Back in August, our friend's Heather and her two boys Sam (Eliza's friend) and her older son Jack invited us to join them at the North Pole on Pike's Peak. It's a family themed amusement park based around Santa and his elves. Santa is actually there in a little house and they have tons of rides, a place where you can feed some reindeer and other animals, train ride, etc. I had heard good places about this amusement park but everyone told us about it in the winter and I don't like the idea of going when it is freezing cold (although it is open from May until the end of December - snow or shine!). We ended up having a blast! There was hardly any lines since most kids were back in school (Jack had the day off) and we were able to walk onto almost all of the rides without a wait. Eliza could ride almost all of the rides although a few of them I did need to go with her and so Heather was able to help with Chloe.
The first major hit was the Candy Cane slide - you walked to the top of this tower and slide down on sacks. It was really fast (I got a burn on my arm from trying to hold onto Chloe) but fun!
We went on the world's highest Ferris Wheel (since it's on the side of Pike's Peak - we were really high in elevation). And rode a train and the kids went on tons of little kiddie rides.
And on this swinging ride that the kids loved but made Heather and I want to throw up the rest of the day!
The kids got to touch the North Pole (it's freezing!) And sit in Santa's sleigh.
We had a picnic lunch and watched a magician show and then a few last rides before it started sprinkling!
The kids could go into Santa's little house and meet him but my girls wouldn't cooperate for a picture (even though I think it was the sweetest Santa I have ever met!)
It was a really fun day! And I took a lot of BLURRY pictures since the rides were hard to capture.
No comments:
Post a Comment