BRICK FEST LIVE! FANS SHARE the NEWS!

September 22, 2017 by tillywee Leave a Comment

MORE LEGO® events! See our past events here!

Click the name and date for your city to find out more information! WE LOVE all things LEGO®! Please share with friends and plan to purchase your pre-sale tickets as soon as available. Baltimore, that’s today, September 22, 2017! The rest of you….get your tickets today! ITS IS getting closer!

Richmond, VA 10/7-8 – LEGO® lovers rejoice!
DATE AND TIME
Sat, Oct 7, 2017, 10:00 AM –
Sun, Oct 8, 2017, 6:00 PM EDT
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LOCATION: Greater Richmond Convention Center
403 N 3rd St Richmond, VA 23219

Sacrament, California!

Sept 23-24

DATE AND TIME

Sat, Sept 23, 2017, 9:00 AM –

Sun, Sept 24, 2017, 6:00 PM

LOCATION:

Sacramento Convention Center

1400 J St

Sacramento, CA 95814

Baltimore November 4-5 , 2017

Brick Fest Live LEGO Fan Experience
Maryland State Fairgrounds November 4th – 5th, 2017

Here is some more information from the organizers for your enjoyment!

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Enjoy an amazing LEGO® world where you can marvel at giant creations and even build some of your own.

The Brick Fest Live LEGO®Fan Experience provides a venue for LEGO® lovers of all sizes to celebrate, build new creations, and see some truly mind-blowing LEGO® sculptures to help set the imagination free.

Attractions Include:

The Brick Show Experience: Meet popular YouTube LEGO show hosts from The Brick Show and be featured on in an upcoming video.

Brick Fest Derby: Build and race your custom built LEGO® derby car down one of our 35-foot long timed tracks!

Collaborative Building Activities: Contribute to large-scale mystery floor mosaic.

Inspiration Stations: Add to existing LEGO®cities and make them your own by building custom creations.

Video Game Arena: Have a favorite LEGO® video game? Come challenge your family or make new friends in the Brick Fest Gaming Arena playing your favorite LEGO®title head to head.

Mini Golf: A miniature golf course built to inspire! Take your game to the next level on the Brick-Links.

Brick Fest Theater Trivia & Entertainment: Participate in LEGO® trivia all while taking a break from what will be an overwhelming amount of awesome!

Mosaics: Using a colorful variety of LEGO® bricks, build a piece of art to proudly display for other attendees.

Shopping: Find new, vintage, rare, and custom LEGO sets and merchandise from one of the many merchants in attendance.

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BRICK UNIVERSE! Another awesome LEGO event!

September 16, 2017 by tillywee Leave a Comment

BRICK UNIVERSE!!! This LEGO addicted family CANNOT wait! Our FAVORITE ‪#‎sponsored‬ post!

Save this November Weekend (this was 2015) Hope they bring it back to the DFW area soon!

Mark your calendars and plan to visit the Irving Convention Center on November 14 – 15 for a great LEGO event. Release the builder within at BrickUniverse Dallas, the ultimate LEGO lover’s paradise that will take over the Irving Convention Center in November.

Choose from Saturday or Sunday admission, and experience hands-on LEGO attractions and activities built to inspire, educate, and entertain.

Fun Family LEGO Event

This fun, family-friendly LEGO event will have tons of amazing LEGO creations to gawk at, building zones to unleash your creative energy, guest speakers and more in the LEGO theater, and vendors selling the latest LEGO sets, minifigures, and accessories.

Irving Convention Center

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UPDATE! We enjoyed this Event immensely. Hope it comes back again soon to Irving Convention Center!

WE loved meeting all the Star Wars Characters!

We found out that folks have A LOT of time on their hands and spent a good amount of time looking at the amazing models they made in their FREE time! WOW! Get your LEGO model here on Amazon!

We took time to enjoy building Steve from MineCraft and playing with the extra LARGE duplos!

One son enjoys robotics and took advantage of the station set up there to build his own robot! It was AMAZING! Check out these Lego Robotics SETS on Amazon!

Thermopolis, Wyoming: Perspective of a teenage girl!

March 13, 2017 by tillywee Leave a Comment

Thermopolis, Wyoming Dinosaur Dig Site!

<<<<actual bones found at this location!!! SO SO cool!

First, we started our day late because mom was not feeling well. This dinosaur museum was about a three hour drive from our campsite in Dubois, Wyoming to Thermopolis! I fell asleep on this drive.

BUS TOUR

Kids and adults alike hopped right on the bus and headed up the ROUGH mountain road to the dig site. Our guide told us all about the many types of bones they found and what type of land, which layer of the earth the bones were found in. All in the tour asked many questions and looked at all the bones we could see at the S.I. site! (this stands for Something Interesting) Continuing on to another site nearby called Near Something Interesting or something funny like that! The tour guide spoke about how all the bones in this site are lined up in the proper order, as in full size dinosaurs died here.

LONG NECK DINOSAUR

Next, our family saw the current long neck dinosaur they are in the process of digging up. Explanations for the silly naming of the dig sites is given on the tour. This is something you will have to just visit to find out by yourselves! She explained how they have people just like us and volunteer Paleontologists come out every summer to help dig as well. It took awhile for her to explain how they transport the bones, it was so interesting! You will have to go on the tour to find out for yourself!

PHOTOS AT THE DIG SITES!

Photos of the dig site? Sorry!

So sorry! Be prepared with Dramamine, (Here is the one for kids, moms likes it best!) if needed road was bumpy and it was so hot! Our batteries in our phone cameras were dying and I left my camera at the campground this day! Had to take photos inside only after we charged them up a bit.

As an option to see this site, here is a link for photos of the DIG SITE!

MUSEUM

Lastly, the museum was so interesting. Plans are in the works for a new HUGE building to be opened in the next year or so. You will find the entire skeleton of the dinosaur dug up at the “SI” site is located inside! May want to plan a full day, we only had a half day and could have spent more time enjoying this museum.

PHOTOS IN THE MUSEUM

Plan at least an hour in the current museum. We only had 45 minutes in the museum and then they had to close, so we headed to dinner. A nice yummy Thai place in the small town! Highly recommended! Click on the photo to LIKE their Facebook page and stop in if you ever get a chance!

Thermopolis is home to one of the largest Hot Springs in the area I have heard! Find out more about Hot Springs State Park link here!

By: S-Bear Teenager

“I don’t know if I told you, but my mom made us take this LONG tedious road trip last summer….these are my “musings” about each stop she made us take….I just wanted to GET to my cousins up North, but she insisted we see all these Scientific, Historical, Scenic places on the way!” 2016 National Park Road Trip!

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Dinosaur National Park: Vernal, Utah: Teen Girl Musings

March 10, 2017 by tillywee Leave a Comment

Dinosaur National Park ~ Teen girl musings

When at Dinosaur National Park I was one of the more skeptical ones when it came to “Exciting place to visit!” However, in the long run, it was quite enjoyable. Grandparents drove up from Denver to go with us too! When we first arrived, I was NOT impressed with the heat. However, the view from the canyons and the river made me forget the heat instantly!

Views Were AMAZING!

See if you notice when you go to visit! The bridge at the entrance of the visitor center was made from what? Find out when you arrive! It is pretty interesting!

Visitor Center

We we walked inside, the drawing of the dinosaurs on the wall drew my attention! My particular favorite was of a long neck dinosaur that said, “This is Dave, Dave likes plants.” Then, there was the name and age of the artist on the page. (This is the only Dave the dinosaur I found on Amazon…its DSCN0293 for your pet!) Many children can draw a dinosaur and leave it here on this display wall!

After I got over the excitement of “Dave,” we moved on.

Next, we took a bus trip! They dropped us off at OLD DIG SITE

which now has a building built around it for its protection and preservation. I must say I was very surprised as I had never seen anything like this before!

I was startled at how interested I became at that moment. ( teenage girls don’t tend to get interested in Dinosaur bones do they?!?!) Dinosaur things for girls can be found here! Check it out! This is SO cute!

The whole entire side of the mountain was covered in dinosaur bones! To see that many dinosaur bones in one place was truly amazing! Park rangers(here is a book with REAL park ranger stories!) discuss the bones and how they were discovered and how they have been preserved. This was one of my favorite things. (So, when you get to go, listen to the rangers, they are very interesting!)

Petroglyphs

After we finished up at the dinosaur bones, we drove around to find the Petroglyphs. (Here is a link to an inexpensive field guide to those amazing drawings!) Those drawings peaked my interest as well and the overall Historical value of the Dinosaur National Park was the best part for me! I hope you can go someday too! 07

By: S-Bear Teenager

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BRICK FEST LIVE! FANS SHARE the NEWS!

Brick Fest Live LEGO Fan Experience
Maryland State Fairgrounds November 4th – 5th, 2017

BRICK UNIVERSE! Another awesome LEGO event!