April 22, 2007

San Diego and Legoland

We recently went to San Diego for the wedding of Tiffany's brother Chris and his fiancee, Mary.

We decided to turn our trip to San Diego into a vacation, so we flew down almost a week early. We arrived Saturday night and went straight to our hotel in our PT Cruiser rental car which Tyler loved.

On Sunday, we attended church where Tiffany did as a child. We were even a little early, so we drove to the house Tiffany grew up in before the meeting.

Tiffany's old house

We also drove by Tiffany's elementary school. Tyler was very impressed that the school is called the Burton C. Tiffany elementary school.

At church Tiffany was able to visit with many family friends. We enjoyed our time there and felt very welcome.

After church, we had lunch with Tiffany's high school friend, Emily Buck. Tyler and Brooke enjoyed playing with Emily and Mike's son, Christopher.

Tiffany and Emily

On Monday morning we went to Legoland. We were so excited to go there that we were the second car in the parking lot. We had time to buy our tickets and take pictures before the park opened. We were one of the first families in the park.

Legoland

The very first thing we did in Legoland was go to "driving school". The kids loved driving the go-carts. Fortunately the cars went slowly. Brooke swerved all over the road and had to be helped repeatedly when she crashed into the curb.

Brooke at driving school

Tyler impressed us with his driving skills.

Tyler at driving school

Tyler was excited that he was able to "fight" Lego Darth Vader with a Lego lightsaber.

Darth Vader

Most of the rides were pretty tame and perfect for the ages of our children. One of the rides involved riding a car through a safari filled with animals built out of Legos. It was fun to think of Grandpa and Grandma Bowden in South Africa and to remember our trip there.

Safari

One of the things that the kids enjoyed the most was a show put on by the Lego fire department. The characters acted very silly which of course delighted both of the children, but especially Tyler.

Lego fire department

There were lots of places throughout the park to take pictures with large Lego creations such as this lion.

Hungry lion

Brooke especially enjoyed this ride as it had many fairy tale characters. She also thought it was neat when we told her that it was named after her.

Fairy Tale Brook(e)

We let the kids spend half an hour digging for dinosaur bones in the sand which was a nice break for Tiffany who was very tired of being on her feet.

Our trip would not have been complete without meeting a life-size Lego man.

Lego pirate

Later in the day we relaxed and watched a 3-D movie. We were luckly that we were able to ride on lots of rides. Fortunately the park wasn't very crowded and the lines were fairly short almost all day.

We've known for some time that Brooke is a daredevil. There was one roller coaster that Brooke was tall enough to ride. She loved it and giggled the whole time and even raised her arms in the air going downhill. Scott planned it so that Brooke went first. Then Tyler felt like he had to go on the roller coaster too. He held onto Scott the entire time.

We ended the day by shopping in the Lego store and letting the kids each choose a small souvenir.

We returned to our hotel, ate dinner and then Scott took the kids swimming at the hotel pool.

Posted by sjbowden at April 22, 2007 9:59 PM