New at Legoland - SeaLife Aquarium

This is the 'ad' in Legoland for the SeaLife Aquarium. We got two day passes for Legoland and this. Fortunately, this day was overcast and misty. A good day to be inside.

Outside the aquarium - we couldn't get Jake to pose.

Inside the aquarium they had some lego sculptures, but not too many. Some of the larger tanks had lego subs and divers inside.

One of the better fish pictures. Thay allow flash photography, but discourage it. For my camera, everything pretty much needed a flash.

As this shark and manta ray


and this little guy (or gal).

The boys liked the viewing tubes to get an insider's view.

Karen & I could have spent a lot more time in here. Jake was not in the mood for a lengthy, nor educational, stay. The day was still cold-ish, so we scrapped plans for the ocean and headed to Yuma for the night.

More from Legoland

I'm very good at wasting time, so I've been keeping 'busy' and not keeping up on the blog.

Here are some more pictures from our trip in June to Legoland:

Jake was excited to learn he could ride most of the rides by himself. He was not too excited about the lines for the rides. We happened to show up the first day of California schools' summer vacation.

There were some new sculptures 'hanging around'

And some old classics.

Erik & Karen played mini golf and saw some interesting things...

Erik even found time to save the Federation from the Dark Side.

Jake found the water area. Actually, both boys did and got plenty wet - Here's how:

After a good soak - or was it before? - time for Dippin' Dots. The Dippin' Dots stores in the Valley have all shut down. They are one of the boys favorite treats. Has to be rainbow flavor, too. Notice the nice scab on Jake's nose? The School of Hard Knocks doesn't shut down for the summer; he tried to dive in the shallow end of our pool and caught one of the steps.

The Obama Inauguration - complete with some people passed out in the back row (fallen over).

New York mini city with the proposed Trade Center replacement in the background.

And one way to tell when we've had enough for the day:

Jake is too tired to go on. He crashed while Erik & I waited about an hour to do a less-than-2-minute ride.

Legoland, CA

We went to Legoland for a quick family getaway (I only took off one day, so I can hardly call it a vacation).

We decided to be 'tourists' and take lots of pictures with the sculptures.

And at first they were pretty excited to cooperate with posing.

But after the Bionicle that was it. It was going too slowly when we stopped for so many pictures. With these guys we take what we can get of them together and were happy to get 3 shots.

Oh, and although most of the sculptures are made entirely of legos, the Bionicle above was not. If you think that's cheating - especially in a place called 'Legoland' - they did have some Bionicles in Legos as seen below.

As you can see - no boys posing.