Quest for Legos - Part 1

A year ago Caleb asked us if we could go to England. Why we asked (a little excited that our three-year old already had the travel bug)? He told us that his friend Louis went to Legoland in England and he would like to go to Legoland in England too. Although we would have enjoyed a trip to England, there is a Legoland just north of San Diego in Carlsbad and it is much easier to get to.

From Caleb's request it did take us a year to plan the trip to Legoland (and by plan, I mean secure a kennel for our dog ... we actually booked our hotels the morning we left). During that time we saw favor for Thomas trains start to wain (although they still get played with) and  a passion for Lego start to rise-- particularly our youngest Caleb. Xander my five and half year old, decided he liked Legos on Christmas day ... before then there wasn't much interest.

On Sunday morning we packed and left the house at noon for points South. We needed a late start after all of the activities on Christmas day,  so we only drove to Carpinteria, south of Santa Barbara. The next morning we booked it to Carlsbad to enjoy our first day at Legoland.

Interestingly, Jonathan and I thought that the Holidays would be a slower time at amusement parks like Legoland -- the water park wasn't even opened. However, Legoland was packed, and we found out that Disneyland had to stop admitting visitors two days in a row (Monday and Tuesday this week) due to overcrowding. We figured the statewide rainy spell limited the number of days people could go to theme parks. It was rainy on Sunday, and again on Wednesday ... and Thursday and Friday we had a huge temperature drop with rain expected for Saturday. Our first trip to Legoland was really crowded ... Still the boys had a wonderful time. Next blog I'll right about our two days there.