Showing posts with label Lego love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lego love. Show all posts

Friday, July 7, 2017

Our trip to Lego Master Mecca

This past week, we all (Andreas' sister and her family, farmor, farfar and us) went to Denmark to visit Lalandia (see here) and Legoland (the original... see here). Lalandia was cool but Legoland is Mecca. Honestly, we had a great time: the lines were not too long, the hospitality was amazing and there was something for everyone. Our Lego Masters were thoroughly impressed with the replica of Amelienborg (see here), Nyhavn (see here) and the Star Wars ship that took over 5 million pieces to build it.

The trip started off by taking a ferry from Gothenburg (SE) to Frederikshavn (DK). It was a great way to travel! From there, we continued by car to Billund (see here) where we stayed on the Lalandia site in a really cute house (seriously- I wanted to move in. Love the Danish design ;) ). On the first evening, the boys (even the grown up one) went to the aqua park. I didn't go with them because I met up with a lovely woman that I met through blog land. I have followed Catarina's blog for about 3 years now (see Catarina.dk) and, through the almost daily comments, now consider her a friend. Meeting her in person was an even better experience!

The next day was our Legoland adventure!!!! From beginning to end, we had a great time! Just when the boys thought that it couldn't get better, we ended the day by going back to the aqua park and had pizza for dinner ;) Awesome in boy-land ;)

We left to go back to Sweden by the ferry from Grenaa to Varberg. With duty-free candies in the car, the boys even managed to sleep a bit of the trip back to the home base. It gave Andreas and me a few minutes where we did not have to say "Don't touch your brother" and "Please stop yelling in the car". All in all, a great trip (no sponsorship... just our own personal enthusiasm)! Legoland can expect 3 more job applications for head Lego model builder in the future ;)

Since there wasn't enough room in the car to bring you all with us, here is a photo spam to share the experience ;)

xox


We are on our way to Denmark!






Arriving at Lalandia




Me with the sweet Catarina

Visiting the goats. This one really liked Oliver ;)

The start of our Lego land adventure!

A replica of Andreas ;)


























Ode to my second homeland ;)






Leaving Legoland

The Swedes in front of the Danish flags ;)

The aqua park at Lalandia


Enjoying a cup of coffee during my wait for pizza :)

On the ferry ride home, obviously inspired by the trip

Vi ses igen Danmark!




Saturday, December 31, 2016

Happy New Year!

From our crazy family to yours, all the very best wishes for 2017. May your new year be filled with love and laughter (and wine is good too)! Thanks for reading along with us and sharing in our day to day... xox



Apparently, this is our family, according to the boys (l to r: Alexander, Oliver, Andreas, me and Nicklas). Random cat ;) Thanks to the Lego Shop for not kicking us out during the making of this photo ;)

Monday, May 30, 2016

Another Lego Master in da house ;)

Alexander and Nicklas love Lego. They always have and, I think, they always will. Besides video games, Lego is the only thing that can keep them occupied for ages. Lately, Oliver has been getting really into Lego as well. He made a great Lego mouse for me, just because he thought that we should have a mouse to go with all our real life cats ;) You can't argue with his sort of logic ;) Oliver even gave his mouse a piece of yellow brick cheese. He thought of it all. Even Alexander was impressed. Welcome, Oliver, to Lego Master (in training) status! I look forward to stepping on your building blocks ;)

By the way, Lego does not sponsor my blog. I just feel obligated to write good things about the toy because, literally, it has provided hours of entertainment for my boys, which equals hours of pseudo sanity for me ;)


Piece of yellow cheese included

He even gave his mouse a little tail ;)