Legoland

Before we all returned to work and school, there were two families (my family and my good friend, Ginny and her family ) attended Legoland for the day. It was a perfect weather with 76 degrees.

We had our boys tested their driving skills. They were brave enough to race vehicle and test its acceleration, braking and maneuverability as they raced on the Lego Techno Test Track roller coaster. Even Ryan passed his driving test, our friends who acted like they were lawyers gave my poor innocent son, Ryan a verbal subpoena for crashing their son's car as they got a picture evidence for crashing their son Davon's car (Let's see what they have to say and show it to us when they read this.)After serving us a verbal subpoena, we had to cheer our kids up by riding up in a helicopter. Dylan took a charge while Ryan oversees to make sure everything is okay, including us. Good grief, they didn't jump out to rescue others.
One of the rides, we joined in the Hero Wanted rides... believe it or not, two of us (David and I) and Ginny and her spouse, Ward jumped on a fire truck, raced to hose down a burning building with our children running behind us. When we got to the burning house, we gave our boys the privilege to water the "fire" out. They loved it !Boy, we didn't realize we ran out of our energy fuels after pumping the hoses. Unfortunately, we didn't win the race nor my friend and her spouse.

While we needed to preserve our energy skills, we took our boys to Lego Clubhouse. From there, they used their imagination when they built their Legos. Actually, the T.V. shows interfered them by creating their imagination-- so the boys were hooked it up by watching t.v. I felt that the t.v. shouldn't be there because it is supposed to be physically activity, not just sitting there to watch the T.V. My encouragement for them to make at least one building. It worked for a short time: Dylan built a bridge while Ryan made a car.

After we regained our energy, we dared to get our children soaked wet ! The children took their guts to ride on Splash Battle and Soak and Sail. There were pirate pranks by pouring overhead with the 300 gallons of water. It didn't stop them. (Both boys were wearing Orange Bathing Suits.) After they played at least for a half hour, they already were shivered. It was fun to watch our children playing with the water.























Before we headed for home, we visited the Mini land U.S.A, could you ever have the patience to make over 20 million Lego bricks of many famous landmarks!?! Not me ! While we were there, there were additional landmarks: Las Vegas. I was even surprised to see the lights flicking over the buildings. There were Sphinx and Pyramid. Dylan actually thought the landmarks were from Egypt ! Pretty good guessing?? We even saw the Grand Central Station (New York.)

By the time the sunset arrived, we decided to have a dinner before heading for home. Boy, we were already pooped by the time we walked back to our van. But it was a pleasant day especially at the right temperature.