Legoland Rides and Fun

Finally got to the end of the Legoland pictures!  There was just so much to...take pictures of there!  I almost think we took more pictures there than at Disney.  I read online to go to the very back of the park first.  This park is really long so it was quite a hike to do that!!  It was pretty empty in the back.  They had an indoor area where they were teaching lego building courses that we signed up for and missed.  If we had more time that would have worked really well but I think we filled the day up as much as possible and didn't even do the water park.  It was a really really hot day.  I think cooling off indoors during the hottest part would have been very wise.  My dad bought this cooling misting fan there and it was sooo nice!

There was a boat ride that was geared for the kids where they had a steering wheel and a pedal and a little lake and got to slowly steer your way around it.  There wasn't really a track but just general boundaries to keep you on track generally speaking.  There were little lego guys and lego mice spitting water out at you too!  Samuel tried to steer us to the water but it was harder to get wet than you might think!

We got a few fun shots of family on roller coasters.  The blue dress in the hanging roller coaster...yes, that is Nate's mom and in front of her is Nathan!  We went on a Tuesday and had had problems with the internet at the condo the day before.  She had been planning to work a lot of Monday so instead she was answering a lot of business calls while doing Legoland.  One time, she got a work call in the middle of a kiddie area train ride that she was able to totally focus on while going round and round.

My dad's crazy hair was after a roller coaster too.  Based on his smile, I think his favorite part was firing water at all the people on the Chima water ride from the outside.  The big water ride in Chima was extremely simple but surprisingly fun as you are guaranteed to get drenched.  Basically it is just a boat that passes under falling water in a glorified oval.  Everyone has water guns attached to the boat though and you get to fire out at onlookers while they fire in at you. 

Samuel really really enjoyed all the roller coasters multiple times while Benjamin and Jonathan got to ride a few tamer rides.  Sometimes, Samuel and daddy would catch up with us in time to ride one.   Some of the resulting pictures were so funny of Samuel being very 'unimpressed' with a bouncing horse on a track after the excitement of a coaster.  We stayed late enough after 5pm that there were almost no lines on most attractions at that point!  :)
 
Jonathan and Rosalind enjoyed Duplo-town but it could have used more rides.  I was sooo happy for the air conditioned indoor play area for the littles though!  I think we sat in there recovering and watching them play for a good half hour.

It cracked me up that even the horses on the carousel were lego horses.  It was a double decker carousel and somehow I missed the picture of both layers.  Rosie spent her first ride crying cause she was on the lower level.  She is a huge carousel fan so that was a bit surprising.

There was this really neat ride we did last called 'Island in the Sky' and it took you slowly up high and did a 360 pan of the whole area then took you back down.  It had beautiful views and even Flint got to go on that one!

I included a few more lego structures not in the Star Wars post.  There was a whole land devoted to Lego structures and it was pretty amazing!  It was incredible how well you could tell the legos held up out in the weather too.  In some cases you could see some fading where the sun hit day in and day out.  It was obvious they had been around for a really long time!  I was fascinated seeing the NY skyline including central station and the Gugenheim!  They had all of capital square in Washington DC (complete with moving marching band in front of the capital) and quite a large tribute to the nearby Kennedy space center.  These buildings were sooo impressive!  We just needed a little more shade in that section to enjoy it longer under the Florida sun.