Legoland

Grammy and Papa came to visit us while Matt was on leave.  The first few days of their visit was a wash, literally, because tropical storm Debby rolled right through Florida with a lot of rain and flooding. We had plans to visit Legoland later in the week and when we left the house Wednesday morning, it was still raining.  Still, we ventured south to tackle yet another theme park.  Legoland was AMAZING! 

Grammy and Makaela

Grammy and Mia

Mia loves the carousel

It was totally geared to the toddlers and young children.  While we love Disney, Makaela doesn't meet all the height requirements, but she met all of them at Legoland and there were little toddler parks and lego stations all of the park for Mia to chill out while her bigger sister went on all the rollercoasters. 

Grammy and Makaela on a ride- love the screaming faces!

And, because of the rain, the park was virtually empty.  Makaela went on one rollercoaster 6 times in a row, because she would get off, duck under the handrails and board the coaster again.  She went on a mini free fall ride and the people were watching her saying to their kids, "look how brave that little girl is".  Then we headed through Lego USA and there were replicas of the different US towns all made out of legos- amazing. The girls had a blast, but we really had a tough time pulling Matt out of the lego stations.  At one point I caught him racing a lego car he built against a few 8 year olds.  He complained he had lost twice so he needed to "revamp" his car...Oh, my competitive husband!!

Makaela outside the dragon rollercoaster

Showing off the house we all made at a Lego station

Matt and Makaela in front of Albert Einstein's head that was totally made of Legos

Makaela on the jousting ride- motorized horses that went around a track.She was waving at everyone like she was a beauty queen in a parade!