BrickUniverse

 Today we went to the BrickUniverse Lego convention!

 As soon as we walked in we spotted Mr. Tiger!  (We got to see his original creator a few years ago!)

 They had lots of different historical displays like this D-Day one.

 

 They had several different themed areas where there were tons of bricks and you could build.  I made this little flower bed.

 Alice did a little more work and made this house!

 While we were doing that, Jack was participating in one of the challenge sessions.  Each person had a tub of random bricks and they had 5 minutes to build something on a certain theme before they were judged.

 Some more models...

Before we left, both kids tried another challenge session.

It was a lot of fun!  I wasn't sure what to expect, but it was big enough to be entertaining but small enough to not be overwhelming.  Jack even found some minifigures he was wanting!