Weekend Family Getaway/Day 1 : LEGOLAND

This past weekend we took a mini weekend vacation with the family. We headed to the Chicago area and went to Legoland and the Brookfield Zoo( I will post pics of that trip soon). We drove to Legoland on Friday, got to our hotel around 2:00, checked in and then headed to Legoland. WOW! I am amazed at the crazy stuff they make with Legos, that has to be a very tedious and time consuming job and must take alot of patience! I forgot to take a picture of the huge giraffe they made out of Duplo blocks when you walk in the entrance, but its huge! The boys had a great time in there checking out all the creations, building their own cars/trucks. We also watched a 4D movie and went on a dragon ride. After being there for about 3 hours we grabbed some dinner then headed back to our hotel for some swimming and to bed b/c we had another busy day ahead of us. If you have young boys( or girls too, the also love Legos, but there were far more boys there than girls) that love Legos I would suggest checking this place out, its about a 3 hour drive away, you could just make it a day thing if you wish. They also had a Lego store there too, if you want to buy stuff and it is priced the same as stores around here, but they have a better selection. I will post about our second day at the Zoo soon, for know enjoy pictures of Legoland....

the many creative statues we saw.....

Amazing what they can do with Legos!Downtown Chicago/Navy Pier scene all made out of Legos and they had a moving crane that the boys could play with too.

We went on a dragon ride there and they had this medevial ( sp?) theme, of course all made out of tiny Legos! Levi even went on it and was not scared at all b/c it got dark sometimes and some things moved and at one point we got sprayed with water, which he hates!(more of a mist)

They also had this ride upstairs. They had this little pit of big rubbery blocks that Levi could play in.

This was upstairs, were you can put together your own creations with Legos and they had little tracks that you could race them on.