Legoland Denmark

Happy Belated Birthday, Sprout! This was worth waiting for!

We left Gborg on the 8am ferry this morning and arrived at Fredrikhavn, Danemark after 11. The drive down Danemark to Billund and Legoland took about 2 1/2 hrs. Denmark is flat. It's green on green, with the green fields broken up by yellow ones (linseed?). It's not a very exciting drive, but at least this time I bought a map(!) instead of trusting the directions off googlemaps (which always seems like the best option at home in the living room, but notsomuch when the directions don't match the signs on the actual road!)

Everywhere you turn, there's lego. Lego figures at the decorating the park areas and the rides, even lego block shaped french fries. We did some great rides this afternoon - one of those moving target shooting range things like Buzz Lightyear at WDW, traditional roller coasters, a very wet pirate-themed ride, another boat ride like Pirates of the Caribbean. The "Hall of Fame" ride was Power Builder. You program the ride you want. There are 5 levels of intensity and once you've picked that, you pick the moves you want it to do like swirling you around upside down. It all gets transferred into a data chip on a card like a bank card. Attached to the end of a robotic arm is a pair of seats. You put your card into the machine, get strapped in, and away it goes! It's something else to watch. Elizabeth's moves hung her upside down several times, hair flying, legs flopping like Raggedy Ann's. She said she giggled the whole time.

Our hotel room is called a Treasury room. It's all kitted out like Indiana Jones. There are lego spiders and snakes, beetles and butterflies. We have a parrot and monkey, and treasure of course. Indie seems to have left his (lego) hat in the bathroom. We also have his n hers bunkbeds (E's pulls down from the wall), and us n them tvs (though we are all watching Aliens on the big bed instead). Elsewhere in the hotel, there are tubs of lego for building (each tub is the size of a wading pool). Dinner was scandanavian buffet.

We think we're in for a lot of rain tomorrow. We still need to see all the miniatures (castles, Køpnhamn, Big Ben, Star Wars), Crabzilla, and do a few more rides, but we're not worried about anything getting rained out. Funny thing about amusement parks here - at home, when it rains, the rides close down, but here they don't - you just get wet) and tomorrow for breakfast, I'm really hoping to have a Danish danish.