Everything Is Awesome! (Legoland, CA)

Probably the best (and most dangerous for this Lego obsessed family) of living in San Diego is having none other than Legoland, California less than half an hour north of our house.

Ummm, THAT'S happening. 

We had decided to save it for the short 2 week period that Brad has here at home before he deploys again. We had planned on going next week, but I woke up with a serious Legoland itch this morning and made an executive family decision that we were going NOW. 

We've went to Legoland Florida during our Disney vacation this past fall. Which was a blast and all, but the park here in Cali has it beat by a mile. It's bigger, it has more to do, and it has a rocking water park. (This opinion is skewed, partly due to the fact that we went in fall/winter in FL and was closed for the season, so I can't really compare).

We opened the park at 10am and left an hour before closing at 7pm. We hit the water park first per the Internet's request. The theory is the waterpark is less busy in the morning and completely PACKED in the hot afternoon. It was correct. How did we plan anything ever without Google? Someone give it a Nobel Peace Prize.

The water park itself is just rad. There are areas with flowing water ways and piles of Lego Duplos to build custom boats and see if they will make it all the way down the water way. Or take some giant foam Lego bricks and connect them to your intertube on the lazy river to create your own raft. And then go do all the normal water park stuff (slides, wading pools, etc), but add Lego animals, Lego people (sorry, minifigs. I still don't get the name) and Lego bricks absolutely everywhere. 

People probably thought I was mentally handicapped, since I would notice something throughout the park that would remind me of a Lego set of my childhood and giggle to myself loudly. 

Cam was being pissy about the water until he found this Lego alligator. Then he gave it a smooch (for good luck?) and actually started to swim. Ooookay.

Post water park and lunch, we went to the standard part of the park. Lots of rides, some shows, Lego Movie characters (still mad that Batman didn't make an appearance), and monsterous Lego structures wherever you looked. Oh and uh, gift stores. Everywhere. Lego gift stores. Dangerous for mom and dad the kids.

It's Emmett!! AWESOME.

I could have just gone without the kids and totally been okay. 

It's a Legossaurus

They had these Lego building pits everywhere

The best part of Legoland (in CA or FL) is the Lego city. Real U.S. cities are built to scale, some buildings (particularly in Lego NYC) easily would surpass my ceilings in my house. Calen and his little engineering mind went absolutely bananas in the cities. You could see his eyes light up and the gears start turning inside his head. I told Brad he should work for Lego. Brad said "uh yeah so we can get free Lego sets!" We are on the same page when it comes to parenting.

Lego NYC

Lego Rushmore. And now that we've seen this version, who needs to go see the real thing??

Lego San Francisco

It was just an awesome awesome day. We left talking about if we could afford annual passes (we can't) and watched Cam fall asleep in the car eating Doritos (mid chew...found that used chip in his mouth later....gross) and Calen fall asleep holding a book up to his face. Now that's tired. 

And the best part? A short half hour drive home. 

I can say, if you aren't into Legos, shame on your face!! then you probably won't geek out about this theme park as much as say, my family did. It's still fun, especially for kids, but don't go looking for super thrilling rides or crazy rollercoasters. The whole point of the park is Legos. This sounds obvious but I overheard some people complaining that "there isn't anything non-Lego to do here!" (ummm....why are you here??). If you aren't into it, avoid it. If you are, brace yourself for awesomeness.

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