Legoland, California

Thursday was the day chosen for Legoland and boy did we have some excited kids!! None of our kids had ever been to a theme park so they were excited to see what this was all about! We woke early, drove about an hour to Legoland, and were half an hour early for the opening of the park. It was a little chilly (as you can see from the hoods on everyone in the picture!), but did warm up as the day moved along. The first thing we did was head to some of the rides for the younger kids...gentle rollercoaster, Fairy Tale land boat, Jeep safari jungle, and several more...then as we moved our way around the park we came to some of the older kids rides...dragon rollercoaster, driving school with Volvo cars on a real streets with stop lights, boat rides with water bombs, and a robotic arm that flung a person around! Actually even the younger kids got to go on most of the older kid rides as long as an adult or older child rode with them. The kids all had so much fun even though they had tired feet by the end of the day!

Big kids, little kids, and the kids at heart all really enjoyed Miniland, USA. It is various cities from around the USA built completely out of Legos. We were all so amazed at how creative people can be with Legos and how realistic it all looked! It was so much fun to just wander around and look at all the detail of the buildings, cars, people, streets, and so much more. Actually all around Legoland so many things were built out of Legos that everyone almost had just as much fun looking at the different Lego creations! The pictures here of the motorhomes at a Daytona race look so realistic, but are just one of many Lego creations at Miniland, USA. Pretty hard to tell that you are looking at Legos?

Adams thought the tourist in the red shirt with the cameras looked alot like his daddy! Steve has a camera around his neck all the time! But then Steve wondered if he was talking about the belly as well as the cameras!! :)

Well, since we didn't get to do everything we wanted to at Legoland in one day, we decided to go for another day. So on Saturday we went back to Legoland to do a couple of the favorite rides again, then do several that we missed, and to do the Build and Test where the kids build their own cars and race them down a track. Some of the kids had money to spend so we went shopping for new Legos too!