Thursday, July 23, 2009

Picking Einstein's Nose

When it comes to Legos, I think we are all forever kids. Who hasn't played with and loved Legos growing up? Today Peppermint, Tom, Todd, and I went to Legoland to experience the Lego goodness. Photobucket Upon entering, Todd decided to have a lightsaber fight with Darth Vader. Photobucket In our opinion, the highlight of Legoland for us grown-ups, is definitely Miniland USA. They re-create many cities in the U.S.A. with Legos! Their re-creation of Las Vegas was truly incredible. Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Next we headed to New York City. Photobucket I tried to be godzilla, but I wasn't fierce enough. Photobucket Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. Photobucket Photobucket The streets of San Francisco. Photobucket Our nation's capitol. Photobucket Down to the detail of Barack Obama being sworn in as president. Photobucket This is the workshop where they built all this stuff! Photobucket Peppermint and Todd went on a ride. Tom and I were, how shall I put it? We were scaredy little wienies. I get dizzy easily, I don't know what Tom's excuse is. So it was just Peppermint and Todd. Photobucket They were tossed about left and right. Photobucket But they didn't get dizzy, so I guess they were the right people to send on the rides! Todd and I went for the tamer fun of sliding. Photobucket Sigh. Boys will be boys. Photobucket We left Legoland around 3pm, because we still have other fun spots to hit! For one thing, we wanted to show Peppermint and Tom our favorite place to run, Swami's in Encinitas. The cliffs there provided gorgeous views. The surfers were out in full force today. Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Next was a place that I promised Peppermint I'd take them when they came: Cupcake Love. Photobucket Photobucket Then we went to the Cedros Design District in Solana Beach and browsed around the quirky, handmade consignment shop Leaping Lotus. Peppermint found some interesting masks to try on. Photobucket Then it was dinnertime. You can't come to San Diego without having some fish tacos, so off we went to Rubio's. Photobucket I think the fish tacos were a big hit! Then we drove to Qualcomm Stadium, where we waited to get on the trolley train to go downtown. Photobucket We brought some snack foods and our blankets. We were going to the San Diego Symphony Pops concert featuring music from video games! We ended the evening watching the sunset and listening to awesome symphonic video game music and eating our snacks. Photobucket Today was pretty exhausting because we were out for 12 hours straight. Tomorrow will be another big day, so I must rest up now. Come back tomorrow for more San Diego adventures!

6 comments:

  1. I'm enjoying vacationing vicariously through your blog, and I live and experience San Diego every day! I loved the Leggo cities the best too and love the shot of you coming down the slide. Talk about a priceless moment.

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  2. thx for sharing! looks like a ton of fun!! i guess that retreat at christine's was on after all. lol! ps u and peppermint look great!!

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  3. I can't ever get enough of the scaled buildings at LegoLand. They are completely amazing.

    Yum...fish tacos...YUM!

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  4. Thank you for sharing all this wonderful photos!! I never knew there's a Lego Land in USA also! (I only know Lego Land in Germany and Denmark ... ). And I just thought about visiting LegoLand Denmark during our vacations in august but the price for the entrance is really heavy!!

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  5. wow, these pictures and adventures are really fantastic!!! Lucky Peppermint!! Spending time with you and Todd must be great!!

    Wish you still wonderful time together and can´t wait to see more pictures!!

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  6. Legoland looks SUPER FUN :) What a great tourguide pair you two are! :D

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