Ghost Town Museum

We visited the Ghost Town museum in Colorado Springs while Scott was on leave.

It was cool - a large warehouse building made into an old ghost town complete with different stores, a jail, saloon, shooting gallery, bank, apothecary and stagecoaches parked along the street.

 

 We got this player piano to play

 Sat on some wood horses

 And checked out some of the old store displays

This was the general store

 Looking in some of the store fronts

 Stagecoaches and wagons outside the bank

Is this one a surrey with the fringe on top?

 Lots of stagecoaches and wagons

 Johnny along for the ride

 Matthew tried the shooting gallery

Scott gave him some lessons

 Then showed us how its done

We found out if you take a flash picture of the shooting gallery it sets off all the targets.  Fun.

 Sitting up on the stage or whatever this one is called

 

 

Matthew finds the trough to water the horses

 

 

And the fire station

It looks a lot different than the fire station we visited a few months ago

 

 

And the saloon

 

The saloon had a poker game in progress and several old machines...including this fortune teller.  ;)

Guess we shouldn't be hanging out in a saloon

 

There was alos another building attached called The Old Home that had different rooms set up like a home of the time.  The kids liked seeing the children's rooms and noticing which things were different and which were the same as their rooms now.

 

 Matthew tried on a coon skin cap

 And Anna tried the buffalo horns

This buffalo is ready to charge!

The museum was lots of fun and I'm glad we got the chance to go.

The Ghost Town museum was fun