Oceanside, California

We finally made it to California. We were going to go all the way to San Diego but decided the campground, Paradise By The Sea RV Resort, in Oceanside looked good so we checked in there for a few days.

I always want to stay at an RV park with beach access. The RV park had a path that walked us right down to Buccaneer Beach in Oceanside. It was overcast part of the time but then the sun came out and we got a little sunburned. It was great to sit and watch the kids play with their boogie boards in the Pacific Ocean
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Kait & Andrew playing in the Pacific Ocean.

We were also right next to Carlsbad, California, home of Legoland. Kaitlyn and Andrew's cousin has told them about Legoland for years so they were very excited to finally get to go there.

I had always thought that Legoland was just a place to go and play with legos and look at the lego statues and buildings but we found out it is also an amusement park with roller coasters and rides. Needless to say, we all had a blast.

Elvis in the Lego Walk of Fame. (This one's for you Don!)

Tom's having fun spinning the kids on the Bionicle Blaster.

There were a lot of really cool Lego sculptures and in mini-land they had a special exhibit of Star Wars characters and scenes from all of the various movies. (So now you have a choice of either seeing all of the rock pictures from Utah or just ask Tom to see all of the Lego pictures instead.)

I have to admit, it seems being a Lego engineer would be one of the coolest jobs in the world.

Lego Darth Vader

Lego R2-D2 and Lego Chewbacca.

They also had Lego versions of many of the cities we have visited or will be visiting and an entire Lego animal safari. Legoland is a must do if you are in the Southern California area.

Lego U.S. Capital

Lego elephant.