{"id":6919,"date":"2009-11-30T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:22:20","slug":"legoland-tree-lighting-just-got-hotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6919","title":{"rendered":"Legoland Tree Lighting Just Got Hotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/landry_sommers-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/landry_sommers-1.jpg','popup','width=654,height=315,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/landry_sommers-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"207\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Landry Sommers-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first we were bummed that our reality TV dreams of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legoland.com\/california\" target=\"_blank\">Legoland<\/a><\/strong> Christmas tonight had been shattered like a champagne flute on the sidewalk as reality TV stars <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6862\" target=\"_blank\">Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott<\/a><\/strong> announce that they&#8217;re canceling &#8220;due to illness.&#8221; Then we realized that things couldn&#8217;t be better (at least for the dads in the crowd).<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Legoland&#8217;s substitute tree lighter will be that saucy ball of mom hotness, former Miss USA <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alilandrylife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Landry<\/a><\/strong> who most of us know as the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zloqt3NuZkw\" target=\"_blank\">Doritos Girl<\/a><\/strong>. Landry&#8217;s partner on the Lego hearth will be <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amctv.com\/originals\/madmen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mad Men<\/a><\/em><\/strong> actor <strong>Rich Sommer<\/strong> (who plays Harry Crane on the best show ever to be on TV). It&#8217;s so nice when the second string is better than the starters.<\/p>\n<p>The Legoland treelighting begins tonight (November 30, 2009) at 5:30 followed by a performance by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jumpitz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Jumpitz<\/a><\/strong>, Santa&#8217;s arrival, and then some holiday fireworks. The tree lighting honors the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmhcsc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California<\/a><\/strong>. The festivities are included with regular park admission which costs a whopping $65 for adults, $55 for children 3-12. For a family of four that&#8217;s only $240. &#8220;Tis the season, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legoland.com\/california\" target=\"_blank\">Legoland<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first we were bummed that our reality TV dreams of a Legoland Christmas tonight had been shattered like a champagne flute on the sidewalk as reality TV stars Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott announce that they&#8217;re canceling &#8220;due to illness.&#8221; Then we realized that things couldn&#8217;t be better (at least for the dads in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}