Lego Land Discovery Center Chicago

The boys and I spent the weekend in Chicago while Chris was in New Orleans on business. We had a great time at Lego Land. It was a pretty cool place. They call this location a discovery center because it was more condensed and only had two rides. The boys love it. They got to build models, race the cars they built, watch a 3D movie, played on a playground, rode rides, built with huge legos, and bought some new sets at the end. Good day.

The boys had fun at the huge playground in the Woodfield Mall

We went to the Rainforest Cafe in Chicago. Wow. I was so impressed and I am still amazed at everything they had to see there. We even saw a diver in these tanks cleaning the sculpture. The food was average, but the ambiance was unbeatable.

Proud Moment...for both of us

Alex received a Lego castle set a couple years ago. He was 3 years old and couldn't put it together by himself. I put 98% of it together.

Lately, he has been wanting to find old lego instruction books and put together sets he received long ago. We put together several Star Wars ships and he was just getting more excited each time. Finally he asks, "Mom, can we put together the Lego castle?" When he asks this I can feel my eyes roll back and let out a big sigh. The thing is huge. Even putting together a small star wars ship took 2 hours because finding every piece that is unique to that exact set is really hard when we own probably around 20 sets. And all the pieces are now mixed together.

At first I say "Okay, we can do one wall." Which of course turned into one wall or tower a day. Which turned into this. After a week of hard labor, we made the whole castle. Actually, he built the whole thing, I just found the pieces for it. After 12 hours of work, with the help of my best friend, the BOX4BLOX, it was finished. The box4blox is a great Lego sorting and storage system.

It was a great memory. Somehow all the pain and frustration is erased when I look a this sweet picture of Alex.