This morning we woke up early and had breakfast at the hotel. Then we drove about 5 minutes and we arrived at Legoland, Florida! CSP grew up playing with Legos and he’s always wanted to go to Legoland. We woke up to gorgeous weather and got to the park just after it opened. It was about 75* and sunny.
I’d bought our tickets online and ordered a mystery Lego figure for CSP so we stopped in at the first store to pick that up. Every where you look at Legoland are Lego sculptures! Big, life sized ones, and small ones. It’s amazing!
Legoland, Florida was built at the site of the old Cypress Gardens. You can still see remnants of Cypress Gardens, like this huge tree and the lake beyond.
The crowds were blessedly low today, so we didn’t have to wait in line to see anything! We made our way through the park to Miniland, USA. Miniland, USA is a huge tented area that houses over 32 million Lego bricks!!!
They have all these American icons like the White House and all the monuments in Washington, DC. New York City. Hollywood, California. Las Vegas, and more!
After we explored Miniland, USA, we walked around the big lake and came upon the Pirate River Quest- a boat ride.
So we waited in a short line and boarded our boat.
Each wee boat held about 8-10 people (mostly kids & parents), and a captain.
We sailed through the jungle.
The boat ride took us out into the larger lake.
After our boat ride we walked through the original Cypress Gardens.
At the far end of the path is the Banyan Tree. The biggest tree I’ve ever seen! It was brought to its spot in a 5 gallon bucket and grew and grew!
You can literally walk through it!
That Banyan Tree is so amazing!
Before we left, we stopped in at the big Lego store and CSP bought 2 Lego sets- a Stitch Blockhead and a Lucky Bamboo. Here they are all put together plus his mystery characters that I’d pre-ordered and CSP picked out.
All in all we had a wonderful, relaxing day at Legoland! By this time we were starving so we found our car (in the now full parking lot) and found a fantastic local restaurant called The Krazy Greek. I normally can’t stand a misspelled restaurant name, but this place is amazing! Such good flavors! 5 stars, no notes.
Then it was time to go back to our hotel room to freshen up for the next part of our day! Coming up….mini trip to Lakeland, Florida!
Bless Your Heart 