Legoland and Cypress Gardens

Our daughter Melissa, husband Spencer and grandchildren arrived the end of the first week that John and I were in Florida.  They had plans to go to Legoland with Spencer's parents.  Our grandson Nathan is currently very much into playing with Lego blocks.  We were against paying the steep admission price- the one day admission fee is pretty much equivalent to Disney Land or Busch Gardens.  Also rain was in the forecast for the day they were planning on going there, given all the facts John and I still decided to put out the money and go with them.

Legoland was in the Christmas spirit, as you may see in the picture above.  Do note that all the pictures I have of this resort area (there is a hotel on site) depict a variety of assemblage of lego blocks.  So this was one awesome Christmas tree.

Legos built into a variety of forms are located through out the park, as pictured above.

The park was quite busy the day we were there, given that it was Christmas break for many families.  And we observed that the demographics were young families having at least one boy between the ages of 4 to 9 years of age.  However, there were some enjoyable sights for us older adults, as lego city.  This area of the park featured cities and sites located in Florida, as well as other cities of our nation such as New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C.  While walking around this exhibit we heard bells ringing.  The beautiful music was coming from Bok Towers, which was another structure built with legos.

 

A southern belle, built out of legos, greeted at the entrance of Cypress Gardens.   This section of the gardens was built 75 years ago.  Back then it was a botanical gardens and theme park.  It closed down in 2009 and was redesigned to appeal to families with young children, and is now known as Legoland.  In this section of the park it did retain some of its features- the topiary trail, gardens of azaleas and camelias,  and a very large banyan tree.

Some paths of the gardens were closed off because of flooding, Lake Eloise along its borders was overflowing her banks.  I must say that our walk through this section of the park made our trip to Legoland worthwhile!