7/20 Legoland

After one hour driving from the hotel, we arrived Legoland before 11am. It is a cute place for kids to play because many things were made of Legos or "look like" making from Legos.



Before we went, Hee and I had visited their website for online map and ride introduction to pick up the rides that we would be interested and arranged the routes, so we could skip the routes that we were not interested in and saved some time.

Few minutes after getting in, we saw our first target: Safari Trek. It looked like a train ride, and my 膽小的 kids and I might enjoy. It was about 45 minute waiting time, but the line was not really long, so we got in anyways. It's shorter than 45 minutes, might be only 30 minutes. Kids were doing fine at waiting. Finally, it's our turn to ride, we were so excited; however, the ride was over in less than 5 minutes. I couldn't believe that the ride was so short! It's not worthy to stay 30 minutes in line for this ride.

Then, we went to music fountain. The instruments would play the music only when people stepped on them. Watch a video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVDSH_eJ54

We've heard of Volvo Driving School from a friend before we visited, so I had told Ha about it, and he wanted to try. Hee was too young for the Driving School, but he didn't want to go to Junior Driving School alone, so he didn't go. In the Driving School, Ha drove the car alone; stepped on gas or brake; stopped at red lights and stop signs, and it was like real driving with other kids on the mini streets. He was doing very well, but again, the time was too short. Fortunately, except for the first ride (Safari Trek), the waiting line was not too long. When they got out of the car, we saw Ha walking toward a girl's car and was helping her with something. Such a gentleman! Later, he told us that the girl didn't know how to untie the seatbelt, so he helped her. Ha loved this ride very much!

Then, we had a lunch at one of the dining centers. After lunch, we went for the factory tour, but again, it's short and it's not very interesting.

Skipper school was a big hit of our day! Kids drove and controlled the boat in a small lake, and parents sat beside them. The lake was not too big, so I didn't expect that it would be a long ride based on the previous experiences of other rides. Ha controlled my boat, and Hee controlled Stephen's boat. It was ok when we just started, and things got funnier and funnier when a little baby driver joined the mess. Since 他不按牌理出牌，大家亂成一團，也笑成一團。船頭一下向前，一下又被擠向後，我們這個ride 坐了about 15 minutes......後面在排隊的人看了我們的混亂，又等了那麼久，一定氣死了！A video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY7Tn59Y_us
I had so much fun on this ride!!!

On our way to another area, I saw Splash Battle: A family of 4 were on the same boat with water guns to shot other boat and 路人，and 路人 had water gun to shot them as well. Stephen didn't want us to get too wet, so we didn't take the ride, but personally, I thought that it would be a fun ride, too.

Then, we went to Miniland USA. They made a lot of famous buildings by lego blocks. Here were few of them: San Francisco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXI8LfmzQXY; Los Angeles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtcQKbJGJ2g. We took a Coast Cruise ride to visit the miniland, and it was a longer ride, and we saw some famous buildings in other countries as well.

We also went to Imagination Zone where kids could play with the legos. In Build & Test room, Ha and Hee made lego cars and raced with other kids' cars. Their cars were pretty good. At last, we went to watch a 4D Bob the Builder show. We didn't tell Hee to watch a "movie"; otherwise, he wouldn't go in. We just told him that we were going to watch Bob the Builder, so he went in happily. It was fun, but there were not really many 4D effects in the show. I only saw some fake snow flakes at the end.

Since we were going to have a dinner with Ran's parents, we left Legoland around 4pm. Even though we hadn't finished all the rides that we planned to, we had fun!

Dinner was in San Diego with Sophia's family and Ran's parents. His parents ordered many delicious dishes, and we were so full! Kids also had fun playing and chasing in the room.