Legoland, Windsor

One of the things the kids have been hanging out to do since we arrived in Europe is visit Legoland in Windsor. So yesterday, Tuesday 6 July, we jumped on a train from Waterloo Station across the road from our hotel and made the one hour journey.
It was probably the last thing we actually felt like doing as we're all pretty run down, but it was a promise to the kids and they've been great by being good at the places Sandra and I have wanted to visit.
We're glad we made the trip because the theme park was fantastic and on par with Euro Disneyland in Paris that we went to several years ago.
We took a river raft ride which warned you at the start of the queue that you might get wet. What we weren't expecting was for lego animals on the side to be actually squirting bucket loads of water at us (as the ride itself was fairly tame). So, sick with colds, we also ended up drenched at the start of the day which didn't help. But fortunately it was still warm and we dried out over about an hour.
The amount of effort that went into creating the park was fantastic with a lego zoo full of animals you'd see at a regular zoo (life size), a pirate-themed section, pyramids and several other attractions.
One of the parts the kids loved the most was the driving school where they could go through a short course, then go out on a track and drive go-cart lego cars and get their lego driver's licence. Lachlan was particularly devious and deliberately crashed into other four and five year olds (thinking no-one was looking), while Johanna was the perfect driver obeying the road rules.
From a parent's perspective, the best bit was near the end where there was a minature Europe.