Continued from Southern California Day 4.

After a good night’s rest, everyone seems to be in a better mood. We are, of course, the loudest people here. We will spend the last 4 days of our trip in the same hotel, which will be nice. It’s also a good room with a full kitchen and a separate bedroom from the living room, where the kids will be sleeping on the fold out bed.

Outside Starbucks, which was a short two block walk from hotel. Gotta have my cold brew.

How do you keep 3 kids occupied for a few minutes? Show them videos of themselves.

Walking around Little Italy in San Diego. Our hotel is located in Little Italy, which makes dining options very convenient.

Can’t avoid Shen Yun.

This girl loves to pose for photos. None of us taught her that, this is all her.

Don’t touch that, tons of dogs pee on it. There are a lot of dog owners here in this part of San Diego.

Touch touch touch.

A few blocks away from our hotel is the Waterfront Park, and they have this amazing playground. It’s a lifesaver. Our plan is to take the kids to this playground every morning and let them get some energy out before we go about our mystery activity for the day.

Girl loves to pose.

The floor is lava.

Beautiful weather. While the weather is nice here, much of the rest of the country is having an awful cold spell. I believe the temperature got into the low teens even at Austin. We lucked out that we flew out of Austin right when the cold front hit. Due to all the cold weather and snow, flights got cancelled all over the nation. Hopefully by the time we leave here in a few days, all the flight cancellations would have been sorted.

Back at the hotel getting everyone prepped for our mystery activity for the day.

Let’s go! The shitty part about our hotel is that parking is valet only and it’s $50 a day!! What a rip off!

We asked them earlier to guess where we are going today. They guessed beach because of the hats. Then RL told them a clue about some toy that they play with a lot at home. Of course, they immediately guessed Legoland…but we just played dumb and made them keep guessing. Then I told them that the playground that we went to was our actual mystery activity to try to throw them off the scent. Either way, RL isn’t allowed to give them clues anymore.

Focus.

We asked the kids to read the signs to figure out where we were going, but they couldn’t read the signs fast enough to sound it out.

Legoland isn’t super big, seems to be manageable. Kids figured out it was Legoland as we were pulling into parking lot and they saw all sorts of Lego displays. They had asked to come visit Legoland out of the blue for the first time several weeks ago because they saw Ryan on Youtube visit Legoland. We decided then that we are taking Youtube app off their ipads.

Line to get into the park. We are here not long right after the park opened, hopefully lines inside aren’t long.

Getting antsy.

Almost there.

And, we are in.

lol

Waiting in line for our first rollercoaster ride. Little KL didn’t want to do anymore rollercoasters. We waited maybe 5min for the ride, not bad.

Let’s do this. Pretty mild, but the girls enjoyed it.

Nice, a big playscape for the kids in the middle of Legoland. I’m surprised this isn’t more Lego themed. Legoland seems pretty chill so far.

Waited maybe 10min for our next ride.

Sure…

Get in my belly.

Lunch time!! Let’s take a photo immediately right when RL puts food in her mouth.

Still growing out her two top front teeth, has trouble eating corn off the cob.

So cute.

Say cheese.

Giant version of the classic fishing game. They both won the small prize, and neither were happy about it. It was $10 a prize, they better be happy with it!

Knight and his horse.

Somewhere along the way, I promised them a treat for something. Ice cream it is.

Daddy gets some ice cream too.

Zombie attack

Always gotta see what’s in the horse’s mouth.

Next ride for the girls. This wait was quite a while, maybe 30min. Little KL didn’t wanna ride, so I stayed behind with him and we visited some little play house with pneumatic cannons that fire little foam balls.

 

Someone doesn’t like being leftout.

Doesn’t wanna do spin ride, so gets popcorn instead.

Lego version of the spinning tea cups.

Miniature Legos worlds.

I could probably spend hours looking at all the little details.

Ninjago world.

OK, taking it more chill today, time to call it quits. Some shopping, then head back to hotel.

Legoland was a success. Kids probably enjoyed this place more than Disneyland.

Happy to have been to Legoland. Calling it a day before kids gets too tired is the key.

The parents are tired too and could use a drink now. We put the kids in the living room with a movie on so we could chill in a little sitting corner we made for ourselves in the bedroom. This is as good as it gets for us on this trip on getting some separation from the kids.

Little punk thinks he’s so badass.

Time for dinner, since we are in Little Italy, Italian food it is. Bonus being a super easy two block walk from hotel.

Staying on theme, Negroni.

Actually invented by Italian immigrant in Mexico.

NEED TO UPLOAD NEW PHOTOS without kids names.

Basic Italian fare…except RL had veal.

Earlier today while walking around Little Italy, we saw some barber shops. Ever since then, RL has been on a mission to get little KL his first ever professional haircut.

He seems to be enjoying himself.

Halfway done.

Meanwhile, I went walking around with the girls looking for anything shiny.

Post haircut lollipop. He’s already messed up his hair.

Does look more grown up with shorter hair. Now when he does some punk ass kid stuff, he just looks like a punk ass kid. Before, he was a dorky kid doing punk ass kid stuff.

At the courtyard of our hotel, they’ve got giant jenga and foosball. The kids have been eager to play both.

The first ever L family foosball match. They were so excited, and the kids screamed so loud in excitement as we played. I won this first match with PL as my teammate. Winning.

Now, back to Jenga, a pretty chill way to close out the day.

Today went much better than yesterday. I think the rest and just a slower pace really helped everyone enjoy their time. Onto the next mystery for tomorrow.

To be continued at Southern California Day 6.