I have a confession to make.

I still play with LEGO bricks. Yes, those little interlocking blocks with which you can build just about anything you want. I really don’t think it is possible to outgrow them. In the Lego community I am what would be known as a AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). And, yes, I did really like the recent LEGO Movie. It was quite possibly one of the best animated films I have seen in awhile.

My brother and I as we were growing up played with Lego a lot together. We built towns across the basement floor, had large spaceship battles, at one point “simulated” the Civil War between my room and his, using our LEGO; and even made a model (of sorts) of Mos Eisley from Star Wars. It took up a chunk of the kitchen for a few days.

Now, my brother and I are adults, but we still enjoy LEGO. He recently joined the Navy, and has been assigned to a destroyer, which will ship out next month sometime. So, in honor of his assignment, and in remembrance of all our fun times together building LEGO, I built this destroyer out of my bricks with my two year -old daughter’s “help” (She loves playing with Daddy’s LEGO collection, and is getting pretty good (for a two year-old). Her “help” consisted mainly of having all the LEGO horses play on the back deck of the ship as I built it.)

Jeremiah, hopefully you enjoy seeing this as much as I did building it.