The first time we went to Legoland was September 2004. Me and the kids have been at least five times since, today was Ady’s third time.
Here we are 3 years ago:
Here we are today:
Things you may notice:
1 My hair is shorter now
2 We all look older, this is most noticeable in Scarlett, followed by Davies, then me, then Ady.
3 We spent money back then – note those carrier bags. We were also heading back to a HOTEL for the second night having been sightseeing in Windsor the day before back in 2004.
4 Ady is wearing the same jumper! 😆
We had an ace time – got there around 11am; Scarlett went on every ride except the big rollercoaster which she is still fractionally too short for and the ages 6 plus driving school. She decided she didn’t want to bother with the age 3-5 driving school so her and I went on the boats while Ady took Davies on the 6 plus one. I had probably about equal time with each child as we swapped adults throughout the day. Davies and I went on everything. It was quiet enough to go on almost every ride twice or more as there were no queues so we simply stayed on and went round again. In the case of the new Viking River Splash ride we stayed on and had five (count ’em five!) goes. We loved that lots! Our third ride of the day, ten minutes after arrival was the new Xtreme Team Challenge dinghy on a water slide ride so we had wet bums from the off, which meant a couple of goes on Pirate falls got us soggier and the 5 rides on Viking River Splash pushed us into ‘cant possibly get any wetter’ territory :lol:. We missed Johnny Thunder and only managed to see the 4D show that me and the kids had already seen, but it was still good a second time. We did dino dippers (3 times) and finished up with 4 goes on the round and round water ride (never know what that one’s called). T’was fab :).
I’ve weeded my flickr photos right down but don’t apologise at all for still having loads of almost duplicates, but each and every one makes me smile at how happy we all looked. I’m pretty thrilled to realise we’re edging ever closer to ‘proper’ thrill ride theme park territory – Ady is terrified!
We left about 530pm, got home about 730pm having called into Sainsburys for ‘dalek’ (garlic) bread as requested by the kids. They’d got changed into dry clothes back at the car but I’d not managed to pack a spare pair of trousers for me, so stripped off as I walked in the front door having sat with a wet bum for nearly 5 hours :lol:. Warm baths all round, tea for them followed by falling into bed, tea for us and I’m about to fall into bed myself as I’m working in the morning.
I’ll leave with a couple of pictures which for me really sum up our day – check out the pure delight and sheer happiness on these faces 🙂
and these very wet bums!
Oh that looks such a fab day out! Pictures made me smile too
Comment by Ali — 13 October 2007 @ 11:54 am
Scarlett looks really tall in that last one.
Comment by Joyce — 13 October 2007 @ 4:47 pm
Its those jeans! She’s got a new load (well new to us, car boot sale finds!) of clothes and they are all proper girls cut rather than toddlers – it’s terrifying!
Comment by Nic — 13 October 2007 @ 6:05 pm
Looks like a fab day! We adore all theme parks!
Comment by Roslyn — 13 October 2007 @ 6:31 pm
Great to hear of your fun day out – you do all look blissful. We have only ever been on one day out to a theme park. It poured hard for hours and cost us a fortune, which put us all off really. I imagine the kids will ask again at some time but we’re not bothered until they do!
Comment by Allie — 13 October 2007 @ 6:51 pm
lovely pics. looks like you all had a fab day 🙂
Comment by Liza — 14 October 2007 @ 12:55 am
I daren’t show M those pics, he asks almost daily to go to legoland and we’ve still not made it this year. Will have to try harder next year!
Photo’s were fab 🙂
Comment by Kirsty — 14 October 2007 @ 10:06 am