Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Boredom Busters





Join us at Rotary Park as we take some of our funnest games to play!



16th Annual AIDS Benefit Run/Walk/Bike for the Whole Family
When: Sat, September 21, 9am – 1pm
Where: Rotary Park, 1565 E. 2nd Ave., Durango, CO 81301 (map)
Description:  Run/Bike/Walk events for the whole family, including
 a picnic and ceremony to follow at Rotary Park. 
Distances/event: Fun Run/Walk – 1.6 k Run/Walk – 
6 k Bike Ride – 4 or 8 miles All proceeds will help to 
fund AIDS education and prevention. 
 
 
 Leave (hahahaha) your troubles behind and take a nice long walk to admire the trees adapting to the changing of the seasons!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Taste of Durango 2013

 
 Taste of Durango 2013 to benefit
Manna Soup Kitchen
Who is Manna and what do they do for our community?
 
"Manna serves breakfast, lunch, sack lunches and hot dinners to go Monday through Friday, and hot brunch and sack lunches on Saturday and Sunday. Our clients include the working poor, individuals, families, children, the elderly, and the homeless.  Our sack lunch program fills the County’s Department of Human Services gaps by supplementing the food stamp program and school lunch program.   Manna collaborates with business partners and other non-profits that provide food to their clients. Manna helps stock the Silverton Food Bank and re-distributes excess fresh and canned donations to the Food Bank, VOA Shelter, Safehouse, Hilltop House, Loaves and Fishes in Pagosa Springs, and Mercy Housing.
 


In 2013 Manna expects to:
Serve 68,000 meals, provide 20,600 sack lunches, distribute 1200 hygiene packs, and provide 6 students with internship opportunities." 

That's alotta stuff for Manna to do! So we at Durango Toy Depot play a miniscule part in all of this by volunteering at Taste of Durango. Sure, we take our toys and some games so people can play games and win prizes but more importantly, we donate all we do at the Taste of Durango so that Manna Soup Kitchen can continue their work in our community. 

Durango is a great place to live, it's also a great place to eat! 
Join us, this Sunday as we celebrate what Durango has to offer!

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Who knew?

Who Knew? 
All these great game titles could be found under one roof? 
That is, under one roof, on Main Street Durango?
The object of  Killer Bunnies is to collect as many "Carrots" as possible, hoping that one of them is the randomly predetermined "Magic Carrot". In doing so, you must keep your bunnies alive as long as possible, while eliminating your opponents' Bunnies because once all the Carrots have been claimed you must have a living Bunny to win. This can be tricky as your opponents may have some outrageous weapons up their sleeves!
  

Ticket to Ride (not to be confused with the Beatles song)
 "The rules are simple enough to write on a train ticket –
each turn you either draw more cards, claim a route, or
 get additional Destination Tickets," says Ticket to Ride
author, Alan R. Moon. "The tension comes from being
 forced to balance greed – adding more cards to your hand,
 and fear – losing a critical route to a competitor."

Dominion
 "You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner.

 Risk 1959 Edition
  This game has been around since Moby Dick was a minnow! Did you know that Risk has been accepted as the first mainstream wargame? Players are given tons of little army units to place onto the map of the world. When it's your turn, you use your units to attack other players' positions. Combat is as simple as rolling the dice! Reinforcements can be sent to your armies with the collection of a set of cards!






 Settlers of Catan, 
The players of this game try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On  each turn dice are rolled to determine what  resources the island produces. Players  collect these resources to build up their  civilizations to get  victory points  and win the game. Multi-award-winning
and one of the most popular games in recent history due to its amazing ability to appeal  to non-gamers and gamers alike

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Word of the day.....

                            gamer: gah-mer 




  a player who is game; especially : an athlete who relishes competition

  a person who plays games especially : a person who regularly plays role playing games or computer games.
 
Historically, the term "gamer" usually referred to someone who played wargames and role-playing games. 
While the term does include those who do not necessarily consider themselves to be gamers  it is commonly used to identify those who spend much of their leisure time playing or learning about games.

Wikipedia and dictionary.com contributed to this

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

A day in the Life...



Working in a Toy Store.....
Silly Kaelin.....

I remember walking through a Toy Store as a kid and looking in awe at the walls that were covered in toys and games.  My parents would have to drag me out of the store because I would want to stay and play with everything.  As I got older, not much changed and now I find myself working at 
Durango Toy Depot and having a great time whenever I’m here.
Toy Stores have a certain type of magic that easily enchants anyone who walks through the door. There is something that brings a person of any age back to their childhood as soon as they take that first step through the door.
Today I find myself lucky enough to experience this when I go to work. 
An average workday for me usually consists of unpacking new toys. I like to use this time to test them out. Just the other day, I tested two whole boxes of new Folkmanis Puppets! Needless to say, they were very happy to be out of the box and going on new adventures with each other!
Working at a toy store means that I get to bring smiles to people every day and 
I couldn’t be happier!