Legoland

 After a quick trip to Seattle we took the 3 boys and flew down to San Diego for a Legoland adventure.  At the last minute, someone suggested that staying at the legoland hotel was very convenient and incredibly fun.  We splurged, and stayed there for 2 nights.  It was well worth it, definitely the most kid friendly hotel we've ever stayed in.  The lobby has this huge pirate ship (above) with buckets of legos and tunnels to crawl through and build in.

 The rooms are brilliantly laid out for families.  Each room has 2 areas, one with bunk beds for kids (and a trundle if you happen to have 3 kids) and then a queen size bed in the other room.  They're separated by a bathroom.

 Each room has a theme (we stayed in the pirate themed room) and all the wall decorations are made out of legos!

 When you check in, each kid is given a scavenger hunt in which you find out a code to open the "treasure box" in your room.  The treasure box was a lego set, and it was replenished each day you are there!  One for each kid in the room.  The pool even had floating legos for the kids to play with while in the water.  

 The next morning we got up and used our early access to go into the park.  The boys rushed to the "coastasaurus", a relatively little roller coaster.  They were all so happy to be in the park!

 The entrance was maybe 50 feet from the hotel.

 Ads waiting for the coastasaurus.

 And Nicholas.

 Adler wasn't old enough for the big kid driving school, but luckily they had a little kid driving school.  All 3 earned their drivers licenses.

 Nicholas and I escaped for a bit to go on this big pirate ride.  Neither one of us were sure what we were getting ourselves into, but we got SOAKED!   

 For a short time, the actual set from the Lego movie is on display at Legoland.  It was massive and took more than 6 years to build.  The people working in the display area sent these two on an "I spy" hunt to find various things in the display.  They were entertained for well over an hour searching through the model for small unique things.

 A hot day calls for dippin' dots. 

 Smiley lion.

 Legos everywhere in the hotel lobby.

 The hotel has a contest each evening.  This months theme was to build a robot (with legos supplied in each room).  I was so proud of these two for entering the competition, which was actually quite large and intimidating.  They didn't win, but they sure made a unique "flower power robot."