Legoland 2013

Our Journey through LEGOLAND in photo's

 

K and I had the chance to go to LEGOLAND with our homeschool group again.  I kept this a secret until The 6 AM wake up call.  K jumped for joy with the surprise!

Look at this amazing Christmas tree made from Legos.

 K was living up the chance to go on rides with his friends!  Sometimes being an only child is BORING! 

                      
                                                  Merry Christmas from K and Mrs. Moliassa

Field Trip: Chocolate Kingdom 8/22/2013

Chocolate Kingdom

Orlando, Florida

 

How the Cacao bean turns into the chocolate that we have grown to LOVE

 

Join us with our photos

 

Here we are learning about the cacao bean and how it grows near the equator.  The Pod takes years to be ripe and its heavy when its ready to be picked off the tree.  

 

We got to sample the Cacao bean at its dry stage with a sugar coating.  Didn't get K's face when trying it out but he ended up liking it more than I did.  I have to admit I did spit mine out!  Bitter!

Here we are talking about the process of drying the beans and how they use to make the cacao powder.

Here we are learning about the history behind the Cacao. Cacao used to be used as money.  Umm, that was some yummy money.

Sampling an ancient recipe of hot Chocolate and learning how they use to make the Hot Chocolate to make it all frothy.  Glad we have gadgets that make the job so much easier today!

Chocolate river and a Marshmallow game.  K Love this!

This was my favorite area.  We got to see how the Cacao bean went through a machine to get the Nibs which is what you make the Chocolate with.

Here we are given samples of each type of Chocolate where we get to savor all the different flavors.

K ordered a Milk Chocolate bar with Marshmallows and M&M's, I got Milk Chocolate with Marshmallows and Carmel.  YUM!  Their Chocolate was GOOD!  I am a Chocolate snob liking European Chocolate so much that I am known to Order a good batch once a year for Christmas.  Just saying it's pretty darn good

The Cacao trees growing at Chocolate Kingdom

 

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FT- WonderWorks

Wonderworks Orlando

4/26/13

 

K was scared to go inside as he was for sure everything inside was destroyed as the building is upside down.  Once we went in he was fine until the DARK spinning tube you walk through.  He ran back to the end.  I ended up having to have him close his eyes and push him through that.  Other than those 2 things he had a blast once he was past all of that.

 

He even tried the ropes which is about 12 feet above the ground.  He had the sweetest assistant who worked with him so that he could try it out.  This was my proudest moment seeing him overcome something he was nervous about.  Esp, when I saw older kids turn around without even trying.  So proud he didn't let his fear take a hold of him.

 

 

The light board was really neat!  My  little ham held his breath while posing in the space suit ;o) he's a funny guy.  Both mama and son had a blast on the large piano.  Bubbles where fun but we only got our heads in a bubble before the bubble would pop.

Both K and I learned a little bit about the icy waters from the titanic crash site.  K left his hand in for 36 sec's and than he was off to the next station.  I on the other hand was still going after 5 min's but had to move on with K.  LOL!  It was cold but I didn't think about it being cold which helped.  We hit the water flowing up, still and down, earthquake station, hurricane force wind (K didn't).  We had a blast at Wonderworks

We spent 4 hours there before heading out for lunch and some shopping in Orlando.  We had a great time but next time I am asking if we can go in another way, that spinning tube was a little much for my guy.  With the fear of the unknown this isn't a good start to the wonderful adventure Wonderworks brings.