Legoland - or, I just realized I leave in a few days for another trip so I had better knock these out as fast as possible!

Cheryl and Joan were nice enough to take us to Legoland!

Waiting for the rides to open.  Ethan, especially, was very excited.

There were lots of fun interactions like shooting water, making music, and making objects move.

Legos can do a lot, but they are limited when making realistic humanoid figures.  This is Hansel and Gretel on the storybook cruise.

While the big kids, Joan, and Cheryl went on the bigger rides Livi and I had lots of alone time to ride some of the tamer rides.  Here we are on an African safari.

...and digging for dinosaur bones.

... and jousting other knights on a horse.

... and the coolest thing I have EVER seen.  Livi got to drive a lego car all by herself.  It wasn't on a track.  She had to steer all by herself and she even had to push down the gas peddle to go.  It was for kids 3-5 years old and she did better than all the other kids, including the 5 year old boys!

The older kids could drive on a bigger course, had to follow traffic rules and had gas AND breaks.  It looked so fun I wanted a turn!  This is Ella FAR away doing a great job!  She was a very conscientious driver.

Ethan was less concerned with the rules.  He did manage to avoid an accident with that "one kid" that was ruining it for everyone else by trying to run into them.

A limo land cruiser...

...complete with Leia and Chewie in the hot tub in the back!

Livi didn't want to go on the log flume, but she agreed if she could ride with Grandma Joan.  She ended up loving it!

Legoland has TONS of Star Wars exhibits (which was my favorite part).  Here are life size models of Chewbacca and R2D2.

Livi really wanted to play with all the "toys."  Those fences just begged to be crawled through...

...and over!

Millennium Falcon...enough said.

If you look in the trees you can see the Ewoks' homes.

I think Livi and Ethan loved this part as much as I did!

Every Star Wars exhibit had buttons you could push to make sound and movement.  The Cantina Band will always have a special place in my heart so this was by far my favorite:

I told Livi to smile.  I don't know what happened but it was pretty cute!

This seemed to be the favorite roller-coaster. They all look like they are having fun, but it looked vomit inducing to me!

Livi watching the 3D movie.  It was one of the best 3D attractions I have been to!

I had to record my score on the shooting ride.  It is the first time I have ever been the high score of my group.  It seems less impressive when you see Livi managed to score 1/3 of my score on her own.