Day 8 – The Art of the Brick

Woke up around 8am this morning and got Thomas up to do a little fishing before 10. Cole, Wendy and their three kids (Conner, Nathan & Tyler) were coming by to spend the day with us. Cole is Anna’s cousin and they haven’t seen each other in a couple of years. The plan was to take the kids to a LEGO exhibit.

Made with over 75,000 pieces

The Art of the Brick was an exhibition brought to Tampa by the owner of the Tampa Bay Bolts hockey team for the public free of charge. When we arrived at the museum there was a line several 100 yards long. It did not seem to move – at all! Must be good, we thought! We parked the cars and got in line. Luckily there was a food truck for us to grab a little snack while waiting to get in.

We entered the museum and watched a short movie about the artist and off we went to see some amazing artwork. Nathan, the artist, only used the medium of LEGOs to make all his art. The pictures I took do not show the true size and complexity of most of these pieces. 

After we walked through the exhibit they had a playroom for the kids to build and explore with LEGO pieces. We hung around for about 30 minutes and moved on to the next adventure.