Vacation day 1: Legoland

On Wednesday we went to LegoLand in Auburn Hills.  This was a great choice for our family - we stayed from 10am-6pm and really could have probably stayed a bit longer. 

The first ride is something like 'Kingdom Adventure', but, as with most games, it got renamed to 'Baby Dragon'.  Joshua was scared the first time on it, but semi-willingly went on it a second time when Isaac was excited about it.  After that it was a breeze; we visited it several times throughout the day to save the baby dragon.

The next thing is a Miniworld of Detroit.  It had fun buttons to push and a search and find, so the boys stayed in there longer than I expected.

Then on to the main room, which at first glance didn't look very large.  At second glance it wasn't very large either, but they packed things in.  Isaac and I started with the second ride, while Ben and Joshua made a fast race car and seahorses.

We did the master builder course next, which was again just someone walking you through how to put a set together...and not even taught by the resident master builder.  We had a bit of time at the beginning, so we made things out of blue pieces.  There were also a bunch of lovely pieces in the room.  I think I'd be quite happy decorating the house with such decor...

There were 4 4D movies to watch too.  Joshua was a bit scared with all of them, but held it together through the first one and wanted to go to the others.  Joshua and I probably could have skipped getting wet; it added to the scariness for him and made me cold.  However, the movies were fun.

The kids also loved the playground area.  It was rather nice because they could play a bit and then we would do something else and they would play a bit and we would do something else.  It was rather busy in the early afternoon, but by late afternoon it had cleared out.  Some other kids had moved all the giant lego bricks up to one of the high spots and Isaac and Joshua and another kid spent about an hour...doing something.

We got some more Legos at the end and went on to the next hotel.  The boys took naps in the car so they could play Legos when we got to the hotel.

Overall, it was a lovely day.  The boys, especially Joshua, loved having Ben around and was sure to let him know it...it was super cute.  Both of them want to go back again too.