Broadcast from Sweden: Legoland and Odense Zoo, Denmark

We went for a 3 days 2 nights trip in Denmark last week. The main purpose of making the 6+ hours drive was to visit Legoland. Although dogs are welcome in Legoland, we chose to leave Polly with my mother-in-law so she would get a few days of pampering! ^.^ So we drove down to my MIL's place a day before to spend the night there, and from there was a 5+ hours drive to Billund, Denmark.

Now it's time to bombard you with lots of picture! Brace yourself! ^o^

It's always nice to have sleepy kids in the car... unfortunately it was not always like that. Our road trips are usually kids chattering/singing/fighting/crying/screaming with "Are we there yet?" injected in by Ivan every 20 minutes, then followed by blissful silence for about half to 1 hour, and the cycle repeats again. There were many occasions where we just want to dash out of the car, ran around in circle, hold our ears with our hands and scream....

Enjoying some R&R time at farmor's (grandma) place.

Polly was really pampered by farmor! She got to sit on the sofa and sleep in farmor's bed at night. My MIL told us she had to carry Polly when she brought her out for a walk because she refused to walk! Well, for us, we drag her until she has no choice but to keep walking... And hubby told MIL that since Polly is still a puppy, it'll be good for her to just stick to dog food for now, and MIL replied that she totally agreed, she wouldn't feed Polly anything else since it wouldn't be fun to have a dog with upset tummy. And when we picked her up on our way home, my MIL happily announced that Polly likes meatballs and sausages! :D We agreed that Polly was also on holiday when she was at farmor's! ^.^

Making a "toilet break" stop on the way to Denmark. My MIL had very kindly prepared a picnic basket for us before we left, so sweet of her!

As always, Chris was not in the picture because he had more important stuff to do, like picking stones...

Finally we arrived!

First stop, Miniland.

The small details were just amazing! There is people, animals, lamp posts, plantations and trucks, trains, buses, ships which moved.

Singapore Airlines! The Airbus 380.

Look! It's the ice cream truck (Glassbilen) which we're all familiar with!

Göta Canal in Sweden! The boat actually sailed through the canal just like a real one!

Reminds me so much of "Minecraft".... everything is quite squarish....

Next, Animal Safari.

Real-sized animals made from Lego! Cool!

This is obviously a ride for smaller kids....

Bigger "kid" would have to "pack" himself in! Heeheehee!

The bigger kids holding daddy's hands, me taking pictures.... wait, where are the small ones?!

Most rides are not for Chris. Like this one....

And this one....

So Legoland has thoughtfully setup "play corner" like this at the queue to keep children occupied.

There is still plenty of other rides and areas where small kids can have a lot of fun.

This is the train which Chris was crazy about!

The boys had fun!

There's Atlantis, which is a underwater aquarium.

Lego figures in the water.

I think this guy loves his job! ^.^

Close encounter with the big Alaska crab. Again "Hmmm... this will taste so good with chili!" kept circling around in my head...

In the 4D theater.

And in between, we enjoyed some slush....

.... ice creams....

.... and doses of other sweetness!

And we had to get some souvenirs before we left.

Bye for now, Legoland!

On our drive back the next day, we decided to stop by Odense Zoo.

We paid for the tickets (which weren't cheap) but all Chris was interested was this balloon..... which you can see from outside.... without having to pay for the tickets.....! So throughout the trip in the zoo, he was constantly pointing at the balloon.... =.="