Fun at the Brick Fair

I took the boys down to a 'brick fair' in Birmingham, yesterday, what a fun time we had!  All things Lego, in one place.  Some SERIOUS Lego people there, and some AMAZING Lego structures.  Needless to say, the boys thought they had died and gone to heaven.  Ricky did a 'fill a bucket' thing and got to paw through a large bin of Hero Factory parts and find things he wanted, and fill his bucket and take all that stuff home for $8.00.  The highlight of Tommy's day was to guess how many bricks in a container.  He was so CERTAIN he would win.  But, fortunately, not TOO disappointed when he did not.  Both boys picked out a few things to buy, with the money they had along to spend.  We had our friends from church, Ramona, Jesse, and Ramona's mom, Faith, that joined in with us, and helped pay the gas/parking, and made the day more fun for everyone.  It was a grand adventure!   (including the part at the very end, where Ramona discovered that she had no way to get back into her house, until her husband and daughter came home from the movie they were at, and got to come join us for dinner, and wait at our house, for Wayne to pick them up!) 

There were several cities like this one, which were set up by various 'brick clubs' from around the area.  This one took us nearly 20 minutes just to work our way around it, looking at everything!

This is a chess set, where all of the pieces were RC robots.  This was right at the end of one game, getting things back into place for another game.  

This was particularly cool to Ramona, as one of her brothers commands a ship, very similar to this!  This picture only shows about half of it.

Most of the cities had trains running around them, this one actually had about 5 or 6 of them.

For my cousin, Pam.  :)

This castle really caught my eye.  The 'kid' standing next to it (about 19 or 20 years old) said he and his brother built it, not from any plan, just made it up as they went, and it took them three entire weekends, and over 10,000 pieces!

The most amazing part to me was the rock foundation, and how they did that with various grey, tan and green roof pieces!!

Jessie was getting a little tired, either that or he was very sad to be leaving.  :)