A Little Boy's Dream Come True

After MONTHS of hoping....

WEEKS of asking....
DAYS & DAYS of waiting....

It was finally here, the day Zach had been talking about for AGES!
LEGO LAND!And he throws up literally as he's walking out the door.

In a matter of 3 seconds his dream of a lifetime (at least the last 8 months), was tossed just like him morning toast.

As Zach was tucked back into bed for the day his brother and cousins drove away to fulfill his DREAM.

Sometimes parents make mistakes. Yes, it's tough to admit but both Ryanne and I made a drastic one only days before this picture. We took all our small children on the eerie, dark, and stomach dropping ride......

The Tower of Terror!

It is by far my favorite Disney ride. I can do without all the twist and turns of a roller coaster but the sudden and irregular drops that elevator ride makes gives me such a rush!

The kids were kinda freaking out in line as you hear all the moaning and such from the speakers. We reassured them it wasn't that scary......but, apparently to them it was.

Connor was so upset we thought he soiled himself but the tough guy didn't.

Ethan after said, "I don't want to ride this ride. I don't want to see this ride. I don't want to even be near this ride ever again."

Luckily it's tucked away at the back of the park so we were able to oblige.

So this brings us to this picture...this ride is a similar concept but on a smaller, bright, tamer scale.

But the kids still didn't think so.

It was absolutely incredible what can be created with Legos.

I mean in the past I was always impressed with my little engineers' creations but this takes it too a whole new level.

Just keep in mind when going....this is very much a kiddie park. Once the Lego structure become unimpressive it's time to leave the park because there are no thrill rides.

Lego Land Part Two!
Thankfully our travel schedule allowed for us to stay in California an extra day. So after we said a sad farewell to all our dear family we drove back down to San Diego so that Zach's Nightmare Day could indeed become a Dream Come True.

Loved the workers cleaning the ear wax! What you can't see is that they are moving back and forth with the Q-tip.

This band was really rocking out!

There were many Santa scenes added in places for the holidays.

It was really cool to see places I love to visit in real life captured in Lego miniature.

This ride was tough. To even compete you need two adults.

For us Zach was in tears at the end because we were so behind we didn't really get time to do all the steps. Because it was a race against other teams that had two adults we just couldn't keep up.

Lego Drivers.....start your engines!
Luckily the boys driving group was mostly older kids who could actually make it around the track. Other groups had super inexperienced kids that kept causing major traffic jams and pretty much wasted the entire time.

Graham was such a sport as Mom and Dad often had to trade off to do the rides with the bigger boys.

After you work and work to pull yourself up....

then you get to drop all the way down.

The last ride of the evening!
Thanks to Graham the boys got quadruple the fun.
This coaster is not a long ride, therefore they let everyone ride it two times in a row. When it came to our turn they 1. Let us ride up front. 2. All sit together 3. Let the parents trade off!
The fact that the boys got to ride the ride 4 times consecutively completely blew their minds! (You already go through twice since the track is so short).

Just a note. Don't go and expect to NOT buy your kids a Lego set. Since Christmas was only days before we planned ahead that the boys gift from Mom and Dad would be to pick out a set at the park. Also it is advisable to buy it at the beginning of the day when the stores are empty instead of the end when everyone buys something on the way out. They will hold your purchases for you and you can pick them up on the way out of the park.

Was it worth it! For Zach and Ethan yes! For Mom & Dad it was fun the first day but a bit torturous the 2nd time around one, because again, no thrill rides and two, the crowds were drastically larger the 2nd day.