Legoland Florida. Thank you for starting an obsession.
Roller coasters.
That’s what my son said was his favorite part of summer so far.
I beg to differ. This has been the summer when his love for Legos took over his life and every inch of our bare floor.
Linking up with MamaKat, I chose prompt:
4.) Ask your child what their favorite part of Summer has been and then blog about it.
This was it.
Or more exactly this ride.
The cars.
This ride was for children ages 5 – 13 years. They first sat through a driver’s ed class explaining the rules of the road.
As you can see the Webb family was packed for a full day of amusement park fun in the Florida heat.
On the other hand, as the day wore on — I left everything I carried into the park in a locker.
Camera, purses, phones, packages of things we bought (yes, you end up buying stuff), everything — except a credit card and driver’s license to flash when using said card.
After a full day of riding everything in the park (50 rides) — this is the one they both loved.
Other than a wooden roller coaster, which came in a close second.
The cars. Just goes to show you, regardless of economic strain and ecological worries — American’s love affair with the auto most probably won’t die with this next generation of drivers.
Since we have been back, my son has ogled and Googled every way he can think of to find Legos cheap online. An impossibility it seems.
As far as the park goes, this is not an official review but I have to give it a big thumbs up.
I found a “buy adult get a child in free” coupon online. And even if you don’t have a coupon, buy your tickets online to get a discount. There was a huge line to buy tickets and we just walked in.
It’s not cheap. But if you have a grade school age child, crazy about Legos — there won’t be a better time to spend the money.
We stayed from 11 to closing at 8 p.m. and got our money’s worth.
It’s quite the pretty little park. Sitting on a lake, it was the site of the old Cypress Gardens for any of you old school Florida peeps like me.
So….
What was your child’s favorite moment of the summer so far?
And for those of you interested in seeing more of the park, here are a few pictures I took before stowing the camera in a locker.
I really need to see about installing one of these in the backyard.
Forget Disney World, I want to go there! And I guess I’ll bring my son, too 🙂
So true about the money…in my neighborhood, it’s Disneyland that is the “totally worth it” splurge 🙂
Great photos! We got to go to Legoland California a couple of years ago and my kids’ favorite part was the cars, too. They still talk about getting their own driver’s licenses. And good point about finding discounts. It’s so expensive to get it, but no one should pay full price, because there is always some way to shave off some of price. Glad you had such a great time!
I love a themed park. Not so much for riding a ride (I’m mostly over that), but watching the kids and grandkids scream with both fear and excitement when they really go for a ride.
I have a grandson that is obsessed with lego’s too, and the best part of his trip to California… you guessed it, Legoland! It looks like your family had a ton of fun.
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Your children are so cute.
I have always thought a Legoland Vacation would beat a Big Park. I am glad to have that impression confirmed.
A holiday gift from the kids, our annual passes have afforded us the opportunity to take our grandson to Legoland Florida the way most grandparents take the grandkids to a playground. In fact, it has become our favorite playground! From the refreshing excitement of the water park to the quiet shaded play beneath the trees of the Forestman’s Hideout, there are so many wonderful ways to spend the day. If the weather turns foul, turn indoors for hours of indoor fun with Lego blocks at the wonderful Market Restaurant where delicious food and Duplo blocks make it ideal. Living within fifteen minutes of Legoland is the best part of living in Dundee!
Legoland Florida is in our back yard.. Or just about. We have 3 grown children. Our first 2 worked their first jobs at the old Cypress Gardens. Our youngest was/is a Lego nut.. When he was little I used to organize his legos by type , color, etc, then he would then take all my hard work and dump it together onto a table cloth on the floor.. He didn’t want them organized.
He would make his wonderful sets wenwouldnbuy for him , then take them apart and add the pieces to his stock pile of Legos. He would get an inspiration and work non stop until he’ d literally fall asleep on the floor. He wake up and start back at it… I can still hear him dragging that loud clunky table cloth full of Legos around! At about 4 years old, he made an awesome titanic.. The titanic people wanted to add it to their display at the museum.
Our son was just a tad dissapointed to see Legoland Florida going in.. His comment was, “about 12 years late!”. But guess what? He ‘s a college student now, and WORKING at Legoland, and Loving it.. He works around driving school and boating school.. He’s a Lego genius in his element. Seeing kids love Legos. After our visit to Lego land we are all sure it won’t be long until we get to hear the wonderful sound of Legos being created into something amazing.
Janet, my son now is going through all these YouTube videos of things you can build with all the millions of blocks he has accumulated. And growing up in Central Florida, I did my stint working at the parks. I applied at Disney and Sea World but took a job with Wet-n-Wild, a water park.
I bet Rhonda. It would definitely be worth having annual passes. I thought it was such a nice sized place and I loved that it was on the lake — as there is always a good breeze in the middle of summer off those large lakes. I guess it depends on what a person’s expectations are but we loved it.
we love Legoland too! As a Florida teacher, I got a free season pass (whoo-hoo!), and I just have one son – so purchased him a season pass, and we can go as often as we want. I LOVE that there are no loud, rude teenagers running around like other, larger parks, and EVERYTHING is appropriate for a ten year old. . . it’s a great place. 🙂
I can’t believe you did Legoland in the heat! I’m an hour from there and it’s just too darn hot in the summer to go there. You all need to come back in April when our school goes for $5.00 a person. Love it!!! Oh, and my four boys combine all their sets in to a big pile and create from there. Lego’s rule here. 🙂
I grew up in Winter Park Kimberly — and worked at Wet-n-Wild one summer, so I know the heat. That said, my daughter got so overcome and had let her stomach get to empty that she got sick. A direct result from the 99 degree heat, I’m sure. Once she cooled off and ate something she was fine. And we kept going for another six hours.
The LEGOLAND Florida theme park located in Winter Haven, FL will start building an official LEGOLAND Florida Hotel just like the one in California but with 5 levels and with 150 rooms in 2015.