The reason I mention this is that both of my nieces loved this machine. I told them about the movie "Big", starring Tom Hanks, and about some of the other fortune telling machines that are out there.
Pappy only cost us $1.00 per fortune, so, for $3.00, we all had fortunes told. It was fun, it was cheap, and the girls talked about Pappy for days after we were gone from him, elaborating on their fortunes, and how they were coming true.
If you are traveling with children, sometimes, it is the BIG things that will garner their time and attention. Other times, it is the unexpected and simple that will bring some calm and happiness into your and their day.
During the time that we were in Arizona, my nieces and I did a lot of things that I was really happy to take them to see. We went to Tombstone, saw some ghost towns, made a really good time happen. Pappy was not part of the plans, as I did not know that he even existed. For a head start on their homework, I had them interview a lot of the characters in Tombstone who portray people from Tombstones' boom days. We talked about it on the night before, they did a lot of research, and they were happy to finally get there and meet the people that they had read about, seen in movies, and that their aunt (me) talked about.
An interview by my younger niece with one of the stage coach drivers got her some great knowledge about the town, but he also gave her a silver nail used for driving the horseshoes into the hoofs of those big beasts.
At the Rose Garden in Tombstone, where the Worlds' Biggest Rose resides, the owners kindly let us have pears, crab apples and pomegranates when they learned that we were making jelly.
A reminder to the kids that we were not going to rush through anything, and making them find things in each room of places and ask them about things was a great deal of fun, because it made them still themselves and enjoy where we were, not where we were headed to. The girls would ask me about things as well.
Well behaved children who were very hot got a treat of ice cream in the morning. They really liked it, and it was a perfect stop to cool down.
Tombstone, if done right, without running from one end of the town to the other is assuredly a place that would take 2-3 days to see, especially if you ventured off the main streets, like we did.
We saw the Good Enough mine tour, took a US Mail stage coach around town, saw the Bird Cage theater, went to many gunfights, and we had a really good time. In fact, we had a good enough time that we went to Tombstone 4 times!
I write this to tell you that with children, sometimes it is not the video games, the computer games, the fastest rides, but instead, spending time with those you cherish in a casual and relaxed setting.
Have a great time on your travels!
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