Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Lots of small legos for Kai to swallow in Legoland!

September 9, 2007 Sunday

Kai has a morning stroll with Gramma in the backyard.


And gets excited (like he really knows what's happening) when we go to Legoland in Carlsbad, CA.

Yup- Pretty much every display contains legos...
Dad poses next to this tourist- striking resemblence, yes?
Kai goes ga-ga over Thomas the Train, and gets upsets when I make him leave the store.
Dad even knew who this was- Squarepants Bob, the Sponge? WAH?

Gremlin in the trash!


Kai and daddy ride a train. The cornstalks in the background are made of legos.

Kai gets valet parking.
You get what you can in this day and age! He was pretty stiff...I'm talking about his lego parts-haha!
A retired lego mold.
Woman made of lego, her sweater was a great display!
Kai wants to know just how real this thing is.
You can buy legos by the bulk!
Kai just had to pet this lego dog that was peeing over the fire hydrant.
Birds and cat made of legos. Pretty neat.
Going through a tomb, made of legos...
This was an exception (not made of legos)- but this mummy had some Roamin' hands (Greg).
WOOWEE!



King Tut's mask, just like what I first saw it in Chicago at 14 years of age, and then in Cairo at 23 years old.

Going through an ice cave.


Watch out for the lego polar bear!
Lego artist paints a picture made of legos. The boat in this scene actually moves...
Arleen makes a phone call on a lego-made phone.
Dad tries to pull Greg out of the shark's mouth!
It's pretty hot and Kai needs his water break.
He wins this ducky at the fair.

MiniUSA. Welcome to Las Vegas!
Kai and Gramma stand before New York New York, Las Vegas.
Paris!
Treasure Island. The boats move and the fight begin- just like the show in Vegas.

Then Kai hops on over to New York City.
And gazes over Times Square.
And admires the Statue of Liberty...
...and then rushes over to the west coast to see San Francisco!
Dad checks out SFran.
We visit the Chinese Mann Theater in Hollywood.
But Kai gets bored with that and goes to Florida to see the Daytona Races.
Wow- look at all the lego spectators!
Compare the size of the kayakers to this small bird!

Kai wants to see what our president is up to and would like to tromp on Washington DC.
Pretty amazing, huh? All made of legos.
A woman, half in the making.

Can you guess who this bust represents?

A.

B.______________C.______________
D.______________ E.______________
F.______________
Answers: A) Abraham Lincoln B) Luciano Pavoratti (who recently passed on Sept. 6 this past Thursday). C) Salvador Dali D) Elvis Presley E) Marilyn Monroe F) and California's "Governator"- Arnold Schwarzenegger.
How good were you in your art studies?
A.____________________

B.______________________

C._____________________
D.___________________
Answers: A) The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin B) The Scream, by Edvard Munch C) American Gothic, by Grant Wood D) The infamous Mona Lisa, just like that I had seen in the Louvre- Mona Lisa, by Leonardo daVinci.
And of course, they had to have some Star Wars figures in legos also.
The last lego dude we encountered as we exited Legoland!

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