Welcome To Legoland 2012!

Hi! Jek "Tono" Porkins here! You can also call me by my call sign of "Red Six," and some even call me "Piggy."

I recently went to visit some friends of mine down San Diego way to see their new digs. No contrary to popular belief, I did not die in "A New Hope." Besides, Lucas changes everything! I am alive! Even Han Solo can shoot afterwards!

Let's get with my tour of Legoland! Oh, I even brought a family along with me. They might show up in some of my pictures.

So here I am at the Legoland entrance. Legoland California is located in Carlsbad, CA, right near the ocean, so it reminded me a lot of my home planet of Bestine IV. I was going to bring my fellow Bestinian Zev Senesca, but he was busy, and stayed home.

Now legoland is a pretty neat place. The family I hitched along with went on what is called "Home School Days" here, and it is such a deal. Everyone gets in for about, well, I know how much it is in Imperial Credits, but the family I went with say it was about $25 dollars each. This is super cheap, as I saw some paying up to 90 dollars. EACH!

I guess the family I went with had gone here before, so this time, they attempted to go on some rides. No big deal for me. It would be like flying in my T-65 X-Wing. My main thing was to see how my buddies Antilles, Darklighter, and Luke, and some sort of Miniland that has been built here. It is not finished yet, but I thought I would head on down.

I will show some more of my photos in another post. This is Red Six signing off for now!

Happy Birthday, Nicholas!

Happy Birthday Nicholas!

Instead of one big cake, we got you a Lego CCC (Cup Cake Cake)! It's like having a whole bunch cake in Fun Size!

You are our very special Lego Engineer, and Hockey fan. You do an amazing job with your God-given talent at the Violin, and give glory to the same God by serving at his Altar.

God bless you this day as you celebrate your birthday. Your Mom and Dad and siblings love you very much. May Go grant you many of health, happiness, and Faith for many years.

Happy Birthday, Caleb!

Happy Birthday, Daniel!

We wish we could be with you on your birthday building Legos and eating cake. Most of all, we wish this was like last year when we were on our way over to see you all.

So enjoy this virtual birthday cake that looks like a Lego pyramid.

May God bless you, and grant you many more years. We love you very much!

Happy Birthday, Daniel!

Happy Birthday, Daniel!

We wish we could be with you on your birthday building Legos and eating cake.

Looks like you have plenty of snow over there. We just came back from snow, and it was lots fun. Now we can ski and snowboard with you over at Gunstock, near Laconia, home to FunSpot!, the world's largest arcade!

It would be fun to throw snowballs, and just have some fun in the snow.

So enjoy this virtual birthday cake that looks like a Lego pyramid.

May God bless you, and grant you many more years. We love you very much!

Happy Birthday, Nicholas!

Happy birthday, Nicholas, all the way from Bilund, Danemark! Ole Kirk Christiansen here!

OK, I am not the inventor of LEGO's, but since you see everything as Legos, you might not notice the difference.

I can't make you a cake this cool, but we can get you a picture of one, so here it is.

We love you very much, and we thank God for giving us the gift of a clever, funny, sweet boy like you.

Happy 10th birthday!

Ulysses sighting of the week! December 5th, 2009

We bring you here a sighting of our intrepid traveller, Ulysses Zamora. He is on his way to the East Coast right now, but he was just sighted in Chekotah, Oklahoma. Let's take a look...

Well, it is a Red Vehicle, just like Ulysses' Truck...

Believability Rating: 10%. Although it is a Red Vehicle, it is the wrong Make and Model. It also appears to be too warm, and the weather this week in Oklahoma has been pretty cold. Members of this Family also appear to be in this picture, and no Mendoza from this Family has been in Oklahoma since the Mom visited Hugo, Oklahoma in 2007 (Long story. Texans are involved). No music was being blasted from the vehicle, either. If you look carefully, the Man to the right of the vehicle seems to have lighter skin tha Ulysses. He is also holding on to the hand of a little boy. There also seems to be a lady with a baby to the left, and we all know that Ulysses is a bachelor. She doesn't seem to be his type. She looks all stuck up and pretty stiff, if you ask us. The guy also is sporting a baseball, and we all know that no cap has ever been on the head of this particular Naval Officer. The People also appear to be made of Lego Bricks.

Well, this one turned out to be a bust. However, tune in again next week for another edition of...

(insert echo-y voice here)

ULYSSES!!!

SIGHTING!!!

OF!!!

THE !!!

WEEK!!!

Legoland!

Previously, on '24'...

Er... actually, last time we were in San Diego. Now we come to the real reason why we went to San Diego, and that is Legoland! Yes, an entire theme park devoted to those little bricks, and it was a blast! It is a bit pricey at about 65 dollars for adults, and 55 dollars for kids, but here is where homechooling truly pays off. You can go for 21 dollars a person if you home school (17 when we went), and for 25 a person if you want to go to their new Aquarium. The Aquarium was not open yet when we went, but so what? It was really fun. There was almost as many Legos here at Legoland than in some people's house that I have been in.

The entrance to Legoland.

We were there before the park even opened. Lovely San Diego weather. It even sprinkled a bit while we were there.

Here we get the tickets. No, there was not a Golden one in the lot.

The signs for the restrooms were pretty funny.

Hey, a life-sized R2-D2!

This picture came out a bit distorted, Nicholas really liked the Darth Vader. Yup, all made out of Legos.

They had a little Jungle cruise with quite a few animals made out of, you guessed it, Legos.

Nicholas was eaten by a Lion.

Nicholas tried the Volvo Driving Track, and he got a License as well.

Ah, now we come to one of the more memorable moments at Legoland. This was a Song and Dance troupe that taught kids about Fire Safety.

They were pretty athletic, because the entire Fire Truck spun around, and they would climb on the ladder and dangle off of it.

Why were they memorable? The Chorus to one of the songs they sang was, "Keep the Wet Stuff on the Hot Stuff." Good advice any time.

THE highlight of Legoland. Millions of bricks are used to recreate famous American and world landmarks. Here is the New Orleans section of Miniland.

Mardi Gras in brick! Actually, New Orleans is not very accurate as no corrupt politicians could be found. We will have to look more extensively through our pictures for the Lego St. Louis Cathedral. When it was being built, we happened to see some pictures of the Lego Cathedral, and apparently they were using old pictures of it. Quite a few of the Lego recreations have the interiors recreated as well, and the Lego people happened to recreate the Interior of St. Louis Cathedral as well as it would have looked like before 1970, meaning that they made a High Altar and everything was Ad Orientem. It cannot be seen as the Cathedral is roofed, but I truly appreciate the effort put into it.

A Lego Mission. Mini Figures of Fathers Milich and Fitz-Henry would be really cool!

The Hollywood Bowl. There are more than 15.000 Mini Figures in Miniland.

Lego San Francisco. Here is the entrance to Chinatown. Chinatown has the smallest figure in the park, a duck hanging in a window made of four bricks. We couldn't find it.

The famous row of houses on Alamo Square.

The Golden Gate Bridge.

One would think that this would be a boring part, just looking at Lego Bricks, but it really was pretty neat.

The Embarcadero in San Francisco. No U2 in sight.

The Capitol of the United States. Again, very inaccurate as no corrupt politicians were in sight.

Georgetown is recreated here along with the B&O Canal.

The United States Marine Corps Memorial.

Another view of the memorial.

The Washington Monument.

The Lincoln Memorial.

The Smithsonian.

This was on the Water cruise that they have, Mount Rushmore. No Jimmy Stewart in sight, or Marin Landau at the bottom.

Lego New York City. Also inaccurate, as you could not smell any urine-soaked air.

The Taj Mahal.

The Sydney Opera House.

Lego Florida, which was basically Daytona Beach and the famous Speedway there.

Ah, yes, look at all those Mini Figures! Almost as many as what comes with the Death Star.

We were there the entire day, from opening to closing. Here they are posing with the souvenirs that came from one of the approximately 600 gift shops. They had Lego sets there that are not sold in stores, so that was pretty cool. The food was nice too, and not too outrageous for being a theme park. We had Pizza at the Ristorante Brickolini!

All in all, a very nice time.

What?

There is one section of Miniland missing?

Tune in tomorrow for a shocking expose!

Kramer Sighting of the Week!: November 25th, 2009

They've been spotted again!

This time is was our youngest son who spotted those elusive Kramers. They've been telling people on FB that they have moved, but even Eddie admits that they don't update their contact information. Ever.

So let us take a look at the latest Kramer sighting.

This took place in our Bedroom, right on the bed.

Believability Rating: 0.05% First of all, The color isn't quite right. A grey roof and red windows. Secondly, it doesn't look as big as the Kramer van. Third, it is cleaner than the Kramer van, (with no strange smells) And finally it appears to be made from Legos. While one of those little guys in the background is bald like Eddie, he also is made of plastic.