Lego Lovefest

Bud's own Nutcracker

On Saturday, while I rested in the hotel from our long OSV excursion and rested up for our afternoon trip to  the historical society, Mama and the kids headed to the Lego KidsFest (and another coincidence:  My Little Chickadees' Shelley was there with her children!  You can see her pictures of the event there.).  And they had a very grand time building tall towers, constructing pieces of a mural, admiring models of various pop culture icons such as Chewbacca and Hagrid and Lightning McQueen (which weighed in at 3 tons!!!), being awestruck by a huge Hogwarts Castle and amused by an igloo with bits of lots of other sets altogether, making and racing cars on a ramp (just like the one at their birthday!), being mesmerized by a Rube Goldberg-esque soccer ball machine, creating something to put on the large map of the USA, and getting freebie after freebie--Ninjago spinners, Ninjago wristbands, Christmas tree sets, mini-Night Bus, pamphlets with instructions for other sets, etc etc etc.  And they weren't even there the whole time, coming back to the hotel early to have lunch (takeout from the incomparable Black-Eyed Sally's, including fried pickles, fried catfish, jambalaya, red beans and rice, collard greens, and cheese grits, all the best I've had here in the North, for truth be told, traditional New England cookery is not all that tempting) and go to the historical society.

And so what have we done since then?  Yep, Legos.