One of the benefits of staying at the Legoland hotel is that you get into the park half an hour early to ride five of the rides. We actually got there and checked into our room in time to take advantage of that on both days, but we didn’t know what we were doing the first day, so we didn’t really get the benefit on Thursday. On Friday, Derek took Tommy and Susie on the roller coaster first thing while those of us who don’t enjoy roller coasters went to Duplo Land. We were the only ones there, so Janie and Elizabeth got to ride the little train over and over and over until the big kids were ready to join us.
The Heartland City section had this carousel that the girls couldn’t get enough of.
And Janie really, really enjoyed the helicopter ride. Since I always rode with her, I don’t have any pictures of us, but here are Tommy and Elizabeth across the way!
Tommy really loved the lego racing challenge room.
The kids got a kick out of all the chances to build with piles of legos and duplos.
The big girls’ favorite ride was Ninjago, which we didn’t get pictures of inside because it was so dark. You had to do ninja moves to fight the bad guys who jumped out at you in your 3D glasses. Susie was a phenom at it, beating all of her siblings’ scores every time. The joy of going to the park when it was dead quiet was that we got to go on the ride several times. It was too intense for Janie, so after the first two times, Derek and I had to take turns taking the big kids through.
Our tickets got us into the Legoland aquarium, too, so we walked through that in the afternoon for a change of pace.
One of the highlights of Legoland for the girls was the Lego Friends live show.
And we squeezed in a last few rides right up until closing time!
