Home Vacation - Day Five

On Thursday, it was supposed to be rainy again, so we decided that today was the perfect day to trek on over to Manchester and visit the SEE Science Center. We've heard great things about it, but the most important thing we wanted to see was the ginormous Lego Millyard Project that they have displayed there. Marshall was so excited to see it, he almost glazed over all of the exhibits that they have set up.

On the upstairs level the had a big dental/tooth display, some mind puzzles and a play area for little kids. There were more mind puzzles, an open piano, a whisper chamber, a huge bubble maker, musical tubes, a robot and simplistic replica of a submarine. However, what we came to see was THE LEGOS!!! We were not disappointed.

Right as you come down the stairs it's there on the right. You cannot miss it and you are blown away at the size of it all! It is a replica of Manchester's mill town as it would have looked back in the early 1900's, complete with the minifigure ladies having dresses with bustles, mill, church, bank, homes, apartments, a marching band, farmer's market, baseball diamond, park, a barbershop quartet, an amusement park complete with roller coaster, ferris wheel and carosel and much, much more. I loved how they recreated the downtown and made sure to get every detail correct. It's so neat! I think we could've spent the entire time examining every aspect of this wonderful creation!

  

On our way home, we promised the kids that we would hit a McD's with a playland. They have been wanting to do this for SO long. We got our food and they scarfed it up quickly and headed in. Taigen and I were able to relax and chat as we watched them go in and out of the tunnels. It was a wonderful day!