The motto of Legoland is “have an unforgettable day”. I was going to use that as my title today, but seeing as the goal of the trip is to make EVERY day unforgettable, I didn’t want to just attribute it to Legoland!
We walked straight out of the hotel to the special entrance to Legoland at 9am as hotel guests have an hour early entry before the general public. We were immediately onto a kids’ roller coaster (the Coastersauras in DinoLand). Sam and Belle have been surprisingly brave on every fast or jerky ride we have been on – Zac is still my SNAG, and often feels motion sickness (or a little vomit in his mouth as he so delicately puts its). Sam is trying to “speak American” (starting with calling me Mom) and Zac has decided to learn some Spanish words, insisting on saying “gracias” to everyone for everything.
We underestimated the size of this theme park, taking leisurely strolls through the first few “lands” and stopping to have a group caricature drawn which took an hour because there are so many of us! So we then had to pick up the pace, but still managed to achieve everything we wanted to before park closing time of 6pm. Despite the thrills of rides and 4D movies, the absolute highlight for all of us was “Miniland” – Lego models of famous people and places. There was an international section, showing models of the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, and Opera House (at which point we called out “Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi!!”). There was a Star Wars section which the kids loved of course, and Zac filmed – with commentary about the scenes of each movie that were represented. And the was a US section showing different cities – which I was excited about because we are going to all of them! We took a massive amount of photos of Las Vegas, New York, San Fran, Washington DC, New England…and I plan to show the kids the real life version to compare!
Early to bed tonight as tomorrow is a big day of driving, and the kids are admitting exhaustion. They are very excited about picking up the motorhome. With them all asleep though, I have been channel surfing and came across a tv show called “Extreme RVs” – Simon Cowell’s is two stories with a jacuzzi! I need to sleep before the bar of expectation is set impossibly high…;)