It's the Little Things

So, Legoland was great! I played with Lego blocks a lot when I was a kid so, for me, it was so much fun to go to a whole park where everything was Lego. I think Maya had a good time as well. She really enjoyed riding the fairy tale boat ride with all kinds of fairy tale characters built out of Legos. For Josh and I, the highlight of the park was, of course, Miniland where Lego's master builders had built scale replicas of landmarks and cityscapes from around the world out of hundreds of thousands of Legos. The detail really was pretty incredible.

There was a giant model of the Taj Mahal that was just beautiful (Josh went to India earlier this year so we're always excited when we see anything to do with India) while the replica of Mount Rushmore wins points for "Best Cheap Joke" by having George Washington getting his ear cleaned with a giant Lego Q-Tip. The cities of Washington, New York, San Francisco and New Orleans were recreated there but the best of them all was Las Vegas. Las Vegas is pretty comical in real life anyway, but to see it made out of all those tiny little plastic blocks was even better. Later, Josh busted out with some impressive "Toss the Ball in the Cup" skills and scored Maya not one but TWO Legoland teddy bears which she promptly adopted as her "babies." Sadly, there was no 7 foot tall Darth Vader to be found.