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Published: July 29th 2008
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Apparently at this exact same time, Rick Steves is in Billund, Denmark filming the original LEGOLAND for his program. Stay tuned. In the meanwhile, it's LEGOLAND Deutschland, and no pledge drive either! 😉
We scored BIG by coming here on this particular weekday, because the schools in Bayern (Bavaria) have not let out for the holidays yet. The park wasn't crowded at all, and the lines were mercifully short, so we actually got to do and enjoy things!
Truly, the highlight of LEGOLAND is "Miniland". At LEGOLAND Deutschland (LLD), the major German cities are represented in LEGO: Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, München (Munich) and Berlin, as well as Schloß (Castle) Neuschwanstein and, for whatever reason, Venice. LEGO Venice is cool, but the best thing
ever was the little LEGO Love-Parade Berlin going in front of the little LEGO Reichstag!! Kids could press a button and make the minifigs dance to LEGO techno.
We started the day riding the Dragonsfeuer (Dragon Fire) roller coaster... modest by roller coaster enthusiasts' standards, but the largest and fanciest Laura's ever had occasion to ride because she lives in a vast roller coaster desert wasteland, not that I'm bitter. But I digress. We
were greeted in the Knight's Kingdom by a cheerfully multi-lingual Wizard dude who directed us to the mostly-nonexistent line for the coaster. Laura was petrified, and the obligatory Roller Coaster Cam caught a picture of mostly just my arms and the top of her head (which was buried in her hands on the safety bar). The little kids' LEGO-horsies-in-a-circle-through-the-woods thing was a bit of a letdown after that.
Ramona made Laura an appointment at Fahrschule for 4 PM, which came before we knew it. We packed Laura off in a crowd of German-speaking kids and took our seats on some shaded benches for half an hour while she attended kids' German driving lessons! At the conclusion of the lesson, all the kids spilled out to actually drive themselves around a test track in little LEGO cars. They all more-or-less obeyed the traffic laws they'd been taught, except Laura, who repeatedly blew through red lights and left confused-looking German kids in her wake. We found out later that the lesson had also been given in English, so she doesn't have any particular excuse after all. 😊 Each kid received a driving license with photo at the end of the lesson.
Afterwards, we rode a great number of extremely wet water rides. 😊
When I announced that we had time for only one last ride, Laura floored me by asking if we could go on the Dragonsfeuer coaster again!! She loved it, but the Cam picture
still showed only the top of her head. 😊
We finished the day with spectacular Ofenkartoffeln (baked potatoes) at the LEGO City Café. Three sauces -- quark cheese, some kind of very garlicky herb, and a ranchlike cream sauce -- made for excellent dipping. We stocked up on gift shop goodies and headed home for a decent night's sleep for a change!
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Barbara Martin
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My little driver!
Typical American driver! :D