Legoland

This weekend was awesome. We went to Legoland and it's resort. We spent two days exploring the resort and one day at Legoland. I wish we could have spent three days at Legoland. It was incredible!!!

We went to the resort with Grandma Toni, Papa Dave, and Auntie Holly. The resort had a pool and a playground and a seperate adult pool that was open until 11. We went to the pool everyday. The pool was a peanut shape which was narrower in the middle. Also, they had a water playground complete with a pirate boat, water cannons, and a water wheel. You could turn valves on and off to control the splashing. You could use the water cannons to attack the pirates (and brothers) in the boat. Good thing I found some goggles to use. One time, a bunch of kids were working together at the top of the ship to keep other people from scaling up the slide. It was fun but I found that I'm not very good at staying up when people are attacking me.

Yesterday, we spent the day at Legoland. It gets two thumbs up! One sign said they used 22 million lego bricks to make a single dragon display. 22 million!!! It was so cool!!! The whole park was filled with lego bricks. We got to take our pictures with lego characters like Dora the Explorer, Darth Vader, Artoo Detoo, giant Bionicles, and everything else under the sun.

Legoland is divided into areas, just like Disney. The middle section is called Miniland USA which was totally unbelievable. It had New Yoprk City all made up out of legos including Freedom Tower which I had never heard of before. The lego cities were taller than my head, complete with lego cars and trains zipping through them. Miniland USA also had Washington D.C., the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, New Orleans with a Jazz Funeral and Mardi Gras parade, San Francisco, Hollywood Bowl that played music, a Lincoln statue found in front of the old Illinois State House that we visited a few weeks ago, and Chinatown. They even had things from other countries like the Eiffle Tower and the Syney Opera House. My favorite was New York. I wish we could have taken the boat tour to get a close up look at the State of Liberty but we ran out of time. It was either the boat tour or the Volvo Driving School.

I chose the driving school. It was definately the right choice. Instead of driving on a track like at Disneyland, I got to drive on a maze of streets. We had stop signs, traffic signals, yield signs, and traffic moving in both directions. It was crazy but important to make sure we didn't drive against the law or we wouldn't get our driving license. Some kids must not have earned theirs. They would try to pass someone and swerve into my lane! I had to move over onto the sidewalk and get through. There were lego pedistrians, mailboxes, and even a subway stair and signs too. I could have driven on this ride for hours but we only had a few minutes.

Another favorite was the boat ride. I got to drive my grandma around. It turns out that Kaleb isn't as good as a driver as he thought he was. He started off in front of everyone but he ended up second to last because he kept going in the wrong direction. Mom was last because she was driving and taking pictures at the same time. I ended up third to first because Grandma Toni was telling me what to do in tight situations. During our boating trip we saw lots of funny lego things. A man was taking a bath in a bathtub floating in the lake and a duckie wearing a lifesaver. It was fantastic!

If you are ever in San Diego, you just have to check this place out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!