THE CUL-DE-SAC

We've been doing a lot of playing this summer in the cul-de-sac just around the corner from us. Usually it's all of our kids, the neighbors Jacinda, Gabby and Benjamin, friends Greyson and Decklyn, another little girl down the street, Sarah, and a few others here and there.

Here's a group of the kids one night......

Sometimes they even do more than just ride bikes.....

LEGOLAND

On Tuesday we spent a day at Legoland. We got there bright and early and were ready to have some fun!

Here we go.....

A cool lego statue on the canoe ride.....

Miniland had a lot of different buildings, statues and full cities....

This one is for you, dad......they know what to include in Vegas.....

Miniland also had Star Wars!

Cameron had the camera for this part --

After Miniland we headed to the rides. Maleah and I were the only ones that wanted to ride this one,the Aquazone Wave Racer.....

Next, it was on to the Bionicle Blaster (basically teacups that go in circles and make you sick and dizzy).....

Then, we all went to the Land of Adventure and rode the Cargo Ace.....

Alex, Cameron, Megan and Maleah also rode the Beetle Bounce.....

We worked up an appetitie and had to take a break for lunch.....

After lunch the kids went to the Volvo Driving School to get their driver's license.....

Does Megan look 13??? Hmmmm.......that was the max age for the ride......might explain why she looks too BIG for her car..... :)

YIKES -- It's a shark at the skipper school......

We spent some time in the "build and test" building. Here are the kids building and testing.....

Megan didn't build and test, but had a great time watching our things for us.....

After a few (many) hours in the Legoland park we headed over to the Legoland Waterpark....

Hmmmmm.......this looked like fun, but what does it do???

OH, it squirts water!!.....

Alex, Cameron, Megan and Maleah had a great time on this water ride. Rena didn't want to try it so she and I waited at the bottom of the slide for the perfect picture (and this is it!).....

Legoland was fun, but almost 10 hours was definitely enough! :)

U.S. OPEN SANDCASTLE COMPETITION

Last weekend we drove down to Imperial Beach to see the U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition. It was really busy, but it was fun to see the sandcastles and how they are built.

Here we are.....

Here are some of the sandcastles that we saw.....

After leaving the beach Jeff decided that we should go to Mexico. Imperial Beach is the "most southwesterly city in the continental United States" so Jeff got back on the freeway heading South and got us to Mexico in less than 5 minutes. It was a funny joke until he almost missed the last U.S. exit and seriously almost took us all in to Mexico.

Here we are still in the United States looking at Mexico......

Whew -- we are still in California.......