Friday: Lego day

Friday was a busy busy day.

Juliet, the kids, Ruby (a friend), Ruby's son Henry, and I went to Legoland in Windsor!

We left at 9:30 in the morning and had a easy time finding the place (not to difficult finding the lego deer, "Welcome" sign, and people scattered around the entrance).

When we got in the park, we went to see Miniland where they built small models of cities out of legos. IT WAS SO COOL!! Here are some pictures to show you what I mean:

Juliett, Marylin, Hardy, and Aticus admiring the models.

Yup, that's all made from Legos. Well just the buildings.

Even the tube train is made of Legos!

Hardy, Aticus, and Marylin getting wet from the rain.

Mont Saint Michel

Trafalgar square.

The Space Shuttle. Pretty much all the USA stuff they had.

An Italian village. A Lego wedding is taking place.

Since it was raining, we then went to see the puppet show in the covered tent. A lot of people had the same idea but luckily we were able to get seats. We ate our lunches as we waited for the show to start. They acted out The Three Little Pigs. It was pretty cute :)

After the show, the rain was coming down harder. We moved on to the 4D movie theatre and watched a Lego movie called "Spellbreaker." Which I guess was the more "big kid" movie so the little ones got scared with more surprises "popping" out of the screen. But they still liked it a lot.
Afterwards, we went to see the Star Wars Miniland. Same thing as Miniland, but Star Wars themed. I think the kids really liked all the little moving bits (it was indoors so they had more Legos moving without having to worry about them getting wet from rain). Here are some pictures:

A submarine ship that spun around when you press a button.

This one had cool laser sound effects.

Naboo. The ocean city of Jaar Jaar Binks.

What are you looking at?

That's Lego Obi-Wan. Awesome.

Marylin went through a tunnel to the little observatory dome.

Lego Luke doing epic stunts.

The Lego musicians playing the catchy tune.

We then went to ride around on some trains. One was a transportation one where the strollers could get on and the other was an actual ride that went around the park. We got squirted in the face several times (I didn't care since I was already wet. And I'm also part duck). After the train ride, the kids had several gos with the "desert chase" aka the merry go round. Afterwards, Marylin went to "driver's school" and got to drive around in a little Lego car. She kept crashing into the median but she eventually got the hang of steering.

Tiger cubs we saw on the train.

You can sort of see the snake that squirted water at us.

A dragon, a dragon, I swear I saw a dragon!

Marylin getting ready for her first driver's ed class :)

We moved on to the Atlantis ride where you go in a little submarine into a aquarium. It was super cool even though we didn't get to see much (we got the less exciting side I suppose).
The park was about to close so we went around the corner to the dinosaur ride. Marylin and I went on it three times and the final time she went with her mom.
 

Before the restaurants closed, we ran inside to buy quick dinners for all of us and ate outside right when the rain finally stopped.
 Finally, we waited about 30 minutes in traffic trying to exit Legoland and then it was smooth sailing back home.

Fun stuff :)