The original plan was to visit Legoland on Wednesday and Thursday, with a hotel stay in Carlsbad Wednesday night. After I booked the hotel and purchased the tickets I noticed that Legoland is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. It never occurred to me that the park would close during the week. Duh. So we changed plans and visited Legoland on Monday and Thursday instead. This could not have worked out better.
Legoland is probably about 1/3 the size of Disneyland, not including California Adventures. So for a family that has never visited a theme park all together, LL was a nice low key first day. We were able to work out how we could do the ride lines in an atmosphere that wasn't so overwhelming. By the time we hit Disneyland the next day, we were pros.
A lot of the rides have height limits so the kids enjoyed measuring themselves.
LL was great. The lines weren't long and the weather was cool but not cold. Until we hit the water rides, that is. Some of us don't like to get wet.
The first day we spent a lot of time going on rides. We were full of energy and the kids didn't want to stop for anything (except to pick out legos at the bulk lego store). The second day was different. After 2 days at DL, I was pretty tired and I think the kids were too although they didn't show it. That day we did more looking and activities that involved working with legos.
I took my youngest daughter to get her face painted.
While the big kids went to do a robot lego activity, I took the younger ones to build a lego race car.
This activity was the cause of the one and only meltdown during the entire vacation--not counting the 4 and 1 year olds of course. When I told my six year old that it was time to leave the race car building, he started crying. WTH? He builds with legos EVERY DAY at home, including building race cars. It may have had something to do with the cool racing ramp--and the fact that he was tired. Could be.
There were a lot of fun picture posing opportunities around all the big lego statues. The kids had a great time being silly.
Of course you can't let a day at Legoland go by without posing with the Lego Pirate Guy.
Next: Disneyland and California Adventures!!
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