Monday was magnificent because we finally went to Legoland. This has been on the minds of my children for months. Ever since they found out we we're gonna be in California for Mark's graduation.
Here's my family sitting on our back deck, looking at a map of Legoland and plotting the adventures for the day. Yes Mark was excited too ;)
The park was open from 10-5 and I wondered if we'd have enough time to do everything. We totally did. It's not nearly the size of Disneyland. It was fun but it is definitely geared towards 3-12 year olds. Which means my kids loved it. They were the perfect age to go.
Jack was the right height for all the rides and because we went on a Monday, the park wasn't crowded at all. We almost never had to wait in a line
Here they are with a Bionicle. It has a name but I don't know it...
Everything in the park is made of Legos, or at least is made to look like it's made of Legos. Like this giant spider.
We went to Star Wars land. Of course we did! We all took pictures next to our favorite characters.
They had scenes from the movies all made out of Legos in mini land. Kale and Jack went crazy.
A life sized Lego Darth Vadar!!
And R2D2!!
At one point the kids convinced us to go on a wet ride. One where the guy said we were guaranteed to get drenched. He was right. I walked away from the ride like Anna did in the movie Frozen after she fell into the river "It's cold it's cold it's cold!" It took me a couple hours to dry out. We were that wet!
In mini land they had a lot of cities built with Legos. New York. San Francisco. Las Vegas. Washington, D.C.
Only Mark and Jack rode this ride. I really wanted to but they wouldn't let me because I couldn't take out my nose ring. I've never heard of such a thing! I told the lady my nose ring hasn't come out in 10 years and it isn't coming out for one ride. You're strapped into the arm and it spins you around and upside down. Jack, a kid after my own heart, wanted to go upside down but they said he was too little. So the ride was boring according to him.
They got to meet Emmit from the Lego movie.
Inside the studio were props and Legos from the Lego movie. Super neat to see the actual pieces from the movie.
Emmit and Wild Style.
They also had a couple rides where kids got to drive their own Lego cars. Jack was disappointed that he didn't get to ride with the big kids until we discovered that they had a track for his age group. He was the best driver on the road!
We we're actually exhausted by about 3:30 so we didn't even stay the whole day. But we weren't disappointed. It was great to come back to the condo and rest.
More to come!
