Lego Store Opening

A couple of weeks ago, Jackson received a postcard in the mail announcing the opening of the new Lego store at Stonebriar Mall this weekend. It promised all sorts of exciting activities along with a free collectible R2D2 brick for participating. So we headed out there after school on Friday afternoon, hoping to avoid the weekend crowds.

Well, the crowds were still bonkers, but we were not deterred! First, Jackson worked at a table with a lot of other kids to build a big Lego brick, as seen below.

Then we went over to the Master Builder (the guy in the red jacket) who was busy collecting the bricks to use to build his 8 ft. tall R2D2. That little one you see in the picture is just a tiny sample of what it was going to look like when finished. Jacks traded in the brick he had made for a $5 off coupon for the new store.

Jacks and Cody both picked a Lego set at the store and we waited in line for 30 minutes (the store was packed wall-to-wall, and the AC wasn't worked terribly well so we were very ready to be done by the time we go out) to pay. The boys also got certificates saying they had participated in the Master Builder Lego event. And finally, they each made a guess as to how many Legos had to been used to build the Indiana Jones that Jacks was standing next to in the first picture.

It was a pretty cool afternoon, and Jackson especially loved every second of it. There's going to be a store opening at NorthPark before too long, and maybe we'll try a different time of day to see if we can avoid some of the crowds. Or we might just help the Master Builder there and skip the store visit until another day after opening weekend...seeing the Master Builder and building bricks for him was their favorite part. Now we just have to go back and see that completed R2D2!!