24th Aug - LEGOLAND!

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Hi all.
It has fallen upon me (Dan) to write today’s informative, enthralling and otherwise witty blog entry. I know that you are all breathlessly waiting to read what happened in Legoland today. Well let me put an end to your suffering and baited breath. Today we, that is Monique and I, toddled of to one of the Legolands, this one happened to be in Deutschland. I have always been a fan of Lego and when I was somewhat younger I decided that I needed to go to Legoland. That did not happen as Lego did not recognise the vast importance of shifting a Legoland to New Brighton. Nevertheless, 20 years on I finally made it. Anyway, on with the blog. Legoland Germany was great fun. It had all the rides of any decent theme park: roller coasters, spiny things, theatres, log flumes, boat rides, get wet things etc. We started by going to the factory building which has some of the robots that make Lego bricks whirring away. After that we hit the rollercoaster. There’s this camera that takes photos of people’s faces as things get exciting and Monique’s face was one of sheer terror!! The highlight of the park for me was seeing the 7 mini cities (or parts of) constructed completely out of Lego. They are based on real cities in Europe and are very impressive. The scale of the cities is larger than the normal Lego mini figure scale and some of the buildings stood 3-4m high. There are moving parts and various lights and the odd thing that squirts water at you too.
Also, all around the park are animals and people all made of Lego bricks. Someone’s put a lot of work in to it. I could go on about all the different things but it’s probably easier and more interesting for you to look at the photos. We basically spent the whole day there.

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Photos

Legoland!
Can you see Daniel's excited face!?

Daniel by the Knights Castle
We took a fast rollarcoaster ride here.

Monique by Giraffe
It was massive - and all made of small lego blocks!

Football stadium
All filled with little lego people, even had flashes going off in crowd for cameras, and lots of cheering.

The Pirates
They even sung and played their instruments - and their legs and arms moved in time to the music!

The trains in the miniture village
In Hamburg

Neuschwanstein Castle in Fussen
We went to this earlier in our trip - the similarity is unbelivable!

Venice in legoland
Again - a pretty good resemblance

Comments

[Uncle Nat]

Legoooooooooo
Hi guys. I hope you got more photos of Legoland. That is so very cool. Daniel, are you itching to get more Lego and build bigger things? Keep on having fun!

["aunty" margareth]

wine and bier!!!!
before you come and upset us again a quick blogment! The bier is in the fridge and the wine for Monique is in the cellar. so if we are not home you dont have to die of thirst. Daniel my bike is still here waiting for you to ride on and the lego is upstairs ready to play with. Looking forward to seeing you soon. Love from your lovely aunt!!!!!

[The Sister]

WOW!
I'm not a huge fan of lego (don't get me wrong, I love to play with it...even now) but that Legoland looks AMAZING!!! HAHA it's the 26th and I have just read all of your blogs for the first time! Took me 1 1/2 hours but well worth it! You guys look like your having an absolutely incredible time! And Daniel... Steve misses you more each day and you may see him appear on your doorstep one day! Missing you! Danielle

[DanMons]

Nat - Lego
How bout 148 photos? I think it was the most photos we took on the trip! And we've got video's too.

[Pies]

That's mint!!
The photos of Legoland are really quite something! Sounds like you had a great time there, and I bet it got Dan's creative juices flowing! Have fun.

[DanMons]

yo yo.
It was very class. I mananged to pick up a hard to get set too.