Adventure #13: Giant SpongeBob Lego Build

All this weekend at Washington Square Mall, the Lego Store is hosting a free mega building event. http://www.shopwashingtonsquare.com/events/Details/40661  If you have ever been to downtown Disney, the Lego Store at that location has giant Lego creations of Darth Vadar, animals, and the like.  Our local Lego Store is getting their own 8 feet tall Sponge Bob Square Pants and you can help.

As the kids had no school on Friday, we headed down to participate.  Now this isn't really Noah's thing, he lacks the coordination to build with Legos.   He'd really rather just throw them.  But Owen, at 7 years old is a Lego fiend, so this was really for him.

This free event is really well organized with several tables set up by the food court (where Santa will be in about a month).  At each station are different colored bricks and Lego personnel walk around to instruct the kids how to turn their small bricks into a giant brick to assist in building Sponge Bob.  Geoff and Owen got to building while Noah and I cruised the mall.

Most stores, although they may technically meet ADA standards, are way too tight for me to get Noah through with his stroller.  Build-A-Bear Workshop is a nice exception.  Noah does love a stuffed animal, so we walked around in there.  I kept petting his cheek with different stuffed animals for which I was rewarded with sweet smiles.  We then found some pink monkeys that he decided he needed 3 to join him in his stroller. Like he literally kept pointing and grunting until he was at 3 then satisfied, he allowed me to move on.  We then found cute little "Woodstock" dolls from Peanuts that sang the Peanuts theme song.  Noah wanted 2, but when I showed him Charlie Brown he gave all the other toys back to have Charlie.  So decision made we paid and decided to walk around a little more.

When did Washington Square Mall become a Middle Eastern Bazaar?  All the kiosk shop keeps are shouting  at me to try their products and a Shakira look alike nearly chased me down the mall.  Weird and unpleasant.  We walked around for a few more minutes then went to rejoin Owen and Geoff.

Owen proudly holding his certificate for participating in a Master Lego Build was very happy with his contribution to the giant Sponge Bob.  We got some lunch.  Owen and I some Mexican, Geoff Japanese, and Noah an odd mishmash of tater tots, yakisoba, and cinnamon crustos (the worst possible name for a food item).  We finished up and headed home.  Now we just need to go back on Monday to see the finished Sponge Bob!