Mall of America and For Ben!

Chris' friend Brad came to visit two weeks after we got back from TN! He was our first non-family visitor. Brynne and I picked him up at the airport on Thursday, unfortunately Southwest lost his bag!! We ended up letting him borrow some of our clothes and washed his the night he got here. Brad wanted to go to the Mall of America and we hadn't been there yet, so we made the trip on Friday. Luckily, shortly before we left, Southwest called and said they found Brad's bag. The airport and Mall of America are one exit apart on the interstate so we picked up the bag on the way to the mall. He got his bag and a $100 flight voucher! Maybe he will come visit again :)

The mall is HUGE! Four stories covering almost 100 acres!! Here are some pics from our trip:

Lunch time!

Brynne really likes sitting in the highchair when we go out!

For all of our Spongebob loving nieces and nephews, this was outside Nickelodeon Universe.

Much to my surprise, we were able to get Brynne to fall asleep in the stroller. I didn't think she would with so much to look at.

Here is the amusement park inside the mall:

There were several rollercoasters and other amusement park type rides and games.

And the rest of this post is for our nephew Ben (and everyone else)! The Mall of America has LEGOland! It has several huge models made completely of LEGOs and an amazing LEGO store!I loved LEGOs when I was a kid, my aunt used to buy me a set almost every weekend. Ben loves them too, you can almost always find him playing with his LEGOs at some point during the day! It's hard to tell from the pictures, but these models are larger than life!

This robot is over 34 feet tall, that's 6 of me standing one on top of the other!!

Here's Chris and Woody in the LEGO store. I made him stand next to him for a size comparison, they are the same height!

This wall has 180 compartments, each filled with different colors and sizes of LEGOs!

They had 100s of different LEGO sets to choose from. They had some of the bigger ones on display outside the store. Here are some from Star Wars.

This one is probably my favorite, but if you click on the picture you can see the cost... Wow! I guess I will always just have this picture, haha!

We had a great time visiting with Brad and hope he comes to visit again!