Richards' Reflections: The North Pole

On Monday we go up and took the kiddos to the North Pole. It is the cutest amusement park ever! It is obviously Christmas themed. The neatest thing about this park was that Bella could ride all the rides. Some of them we had to get on with her but there were lots of rides the kids could get on by themselves. I adored this place! Mainly because Bella loved it so much. It is so awesome to relive some of your own childhood memories (I loved amusement parks) through your child. She loved it so much there were a couple of rides she had to ride twice because she didn't want to get off. The best part is that she could do that. There were NO lines so she could ride twice or we could just walk up and get on a ride. My kind of place! If you are ever in the Colorado Springs area and you have young children, I highly recommend this place. I would go back in a heartbeat.

The North Pole is located on the side of a mountain. I believe it is actually on the side of Pike's Peak. I know that it is the same road. I might be wrong about that but I'm pretty sure.

They have the tallest ferris wheel in the world at the North Pole. By tallest, it is at the highest elevation. Pretty cool. Of course it scared Terry to death. That actually might have been my favorite part of the day! He was quite nervous and I thought it was hilarious. Our 2 year old was just fine and he was not so much. Awesome!

He is totally faking this smile. He was scared to death up there. The view was amazing from up that high. I also must say that Ryan was a little nervous as well. When he and Tim would get to the top he would bury his face in his daddies side so he wouldn't have to look down. He was a trooper though.

They had this cute little train. We had to ride that because Bella loves "choo trains" so much. As it turns out I didn't even get a picture of her riding the "choo train". Go me!

The Cox family minus Courtney who was sitting with Tiffany.

"Choo Train"

Courtney got her face painted with a beautiful butterfly.

This girl loves to ride "horsies". Carousels have lots of "horsies".

WOOHOO!

Ryan and Alyssa

It appears I got some pictures out of order. Oh well. Courtney was excited about the ferris wheel. I'm not sure how excited Alyssa was....

Bella finally gets to ride by herself. I'm not sure she knew what to think at first but once she got use to it she LOVED it. This was the first ride she had to stay on and ride again.

Courtney

Ryan didn't really know what to think of it and he got a little nervous.

As you can see Bella was having a great time.

This was when it landed and we finally got a smile out of Ryan. I guess he was glad it was over. HA!

Bella's second go round. I have a feeling she will be riding roller coasters as soon as she is tall enough. I know I was!!

This ride was suppose to be just Courtney and I but while we were waiting Bella was throwing a fit to ride with us. I asked the guy if she could ride and he said "sure". I'm not sure it was my smartest parenting moment but we let her ride.

Yes, we put our 2 year old on this ride. She actually did pretty good on it. Her stomach was definitely dropping because she would hold her breath and and clench her stomach muscles. In the end......she wanted to ride again. We didn't.

Riding in the boats with her big cousin. She loves her big cousin!

Obviously another ride she rode twice. Ryan joined on the second round. He was leaning out with his hands in the water at one point. Silly boy.

I love the look on Bella's face here. She loved this so much!

Daddy threw Bella on this ride without watching it first. It actually went pretty fast and was the only ride she cried on. I think part of it was that she was by herself. It was one of the rides they wouldn't let us on with her and Courtney was riding something else. Poor thing didn't like this one too much.

Then all three of them got in the firetruck and everything was great again!

Bella is very serious about her driving!

It was almost time to go but we had to let Bella go down this slide. It was really tall and she loves slides!

WEEEEEEEE!

Last ride! Bella drove us around. I remember these cars at Six Flags when I was little. I loved them. I remember them actually letting you steer them and being able to pus the gas and brake. These went on their own but they were still fun.