Oden Adventures

Legoland Adventure

Posted by Amy Evelyn Oden , Tuesday, April 15, 2025 9:41 PM

Call it reckless hope, call it exhaustion with pressing pause on having any fun due to unsettled employment, we threw caution to the wind and booked a bona fide vacation for spring break this year. On the brink of Vianne aging out of the amusement, we finally made it to Legoland California--first time for all of us!

With a great deal on a 2-day park + hotel package, we opted to stay at the Castle Hotel in a wizard-themed room...and spent the first night exploring the hotel. So many adorable details!

The hotel scavenger hunt led to a code that opened the in-room treasure box w/ take-home Lego kits for the kids!

Each morning we enjoyed the extensive breakfast buffet...

Of course, he packed his flute...😄

Before the park opened, we explored a bit outside and over at the Legoland Hotel next door.

As hotel guests, we got early access into the park--a head start at 9:15!

First stop: Dino Valley

Next stop: Lego Movie Land, where my dream of riding on a double (triple, even!) decker couch was realized...

Then on to (onto?) the Skipper School & Pirate Shores...

Then on to Deep Sea Adventure, Castle Hill, Land of Adventure, Ninjago World...(not many pics of the rides because we were, well, riding them)

One of us understands how a pillory works, and the other three of us do not...🤣

Then Miniland USA, including the Coast Cruise, where Oliver tried to out-corny-joke the boat driver...

We ended the day with a tour of the aquarium...

Day 2, we tried to see some things we hadn't on the first day, and revisited all our favorites like the Technic Coaster, the Dragon Coaster, & the Coastersaurus. We greatly enjoyed the pizza/pasta buffet lunch spot (having chosen poorly the day before) and spent part of the afternoon at the Water Park. We were very pleased to have a sunny, warm day since there had been rain in the forecast.

This boy LOVED the water park!

We did a bunch more repeat rides after the water park, enjoyed some treats (apple fries!), and got some souvenirs & then crashed at the hotel for the night. Then a few more photos before checkout...