Legos and Disney - Does it get any better?

For Morgan's Birthday I purchased two tickets to a Lego event in Boston. It was insanely crowded and the first area we went to was all ads and non Lego stuff so I was really down about the whole thing, but things turned around. A Lego master builder gave a presentation which was amazing. He talked about how they build life size models, how he got the job, and some tricks of the trade. That guy was awesome and that presentation was my favorite part of the whole day. What was Morgan's favorite part? Crappy pizza at lunch I think. Actually I think the best part was all the attention she got from her cool new Lego Digital Camera. So many snot nosed dorky brats wanted to see it.

Morgan learned it is easier to find the Lego you need if you sort your Legos by color. I remember as kids Jeremiah, Dan and I talking about ideas like that but it sounded like too much work. As kids we did develope a way to comunicate what type of brick we needed by the number of bumps wide and long. The pros do the same thing but some of the verbiage is slightly different from what we used as kids. When we got home that night Morgan and I sorted out her spare legos by color into bins.

A few weeks later Katie and I went to Disney World. Katie had to go down to Orlando on business so we took advantage of it. Going to Disney without our children has been near the very top of our to-do list for a long time. We originally planed to go to Disney World on our honeymoon but things didn't go as planned.

I will say this when going to Disney World I would recommend not staying at the Value line of resorts. I figured we are only going to sleep there so why waste the money on some fancy pants hotel? We knew the cafateria style breakfast buffet would suck so we brought our own breakfast. We stayed at the Pop Century Hotel and you can only take a bus to the parks. The bus service for our hotel sucked. Luckily there is more to Disney then busses.

We ate at an amazing place at the Grand Floridan resort called Sarcosee (spelling). It was right on the edge of the lake in front of the Magic Kingdom. So our table was set up to look out on the water with the castle lit up in the background. Sounds expensive because it was. Luckily I signed up for the Disney meal plan and got a great deal on it to boot. Basically you pay a base rate for a sit down meal, quick meal , and snack credit. Normally a resuturant costs 1 sit down meal credit. This place costs 2, but it was worth it.

I'm also pleased to say Disney still does the smoked turkey legs in frontier land. There is nothing better then waiting in line to go on a roller coster eating a turkey leg.

Here is the video. I would have done more with it but our camera broke on the thunder mountain ride. I think my car key hit the LED screen and broke it in my pocket while going around one of those crazy turns. So I guess I know what Santa will be getting me for Xmas.