- Aia and Juilie
- Lego Land
- The Viking museum
- crabbing on the pier
Aia is 7 and Julie is 4, they have VERY different personalities for such little girls, Aia is very sporty and loves the great outdoors. She loves catching bugs and is abousuloutly FEARLESS! Julie however is a bit more shy and loves playing with toys, dancing and drawing. She is known at her kindergarden as "the little draw-er" for all there differaences however, the girls take very good care of each other.
DAY 2
LEGO - LAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was UNBELIEVABLE!
Lego Land has just launched their new bit of the park, Polar Adventure World! To celabrate anyone who brought a picture of a polar bear would resieve FREE entry tickets. Wicked!
The whole thing was amazing - here's a map of the park.
MAP
Here's a summary in pictures.
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My favourite part of Legoland was earning my driver's licence. Each of the cars looked as though they were made out of lego and each of the cars had a spot at the front where we could each put a flag showing where we came from made out of lego. This is so the traffic instructor could talk to us in our language. The traffic instructor could speak about 10 languages - I wonder how long that took to learn. There were flags on cars from: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Finland, Germany and basically everywhere else in Europe. First we learnt the rules of the road, then we each choose our car and off we went - around roundabouts, through intersections, traffic lights and even a car wash.
aprox. time: 30 mins
You remember how I was saying that Aia was fearless - this is how I know. In Polar land there is a new roller coaster called the Polar Express. It looks scarier than Big Thunder Mountain in Disneyland. Aia had already joined the queue and has dragged me in behind her. Nooooooooo! My stomach ran away at that point. By the time we reached the front of the queue and the roller coaster had come around the corner I was thinking about what my brother had said that morning. "Did you know that they have just added a roller coaster with a vertical drop in it - I mean the roller coaster comes to stop, the floor falls away underneath you and you land on a new track?" This was freaking me out because I figured out that THIS was the new roller coaster.
Aia did not scream - I DID! In fact in the photos you can definitely see the difference in how we felt.
We played for 7 hours in the park. By the time all the rides finished and we went looking for dinner all the restaurants had shut as well! Luckily Hotel Legoland had a buffet open until 11PM so we were OK. This might sound really late, but in Denmark at this time of year it stays light until after 11PM so it doesn't feel like its late at all. So when you eat dinner at 9PM it feels like dinner at 6PM. And the hotel is still full of kids of all ages running around at 10PM. The hotel is amazing. They have taken the theme on board and even have chips shaped like lego bricks.
When we finally left, we were the last people to go home and the carpark only had our car left in it.
Viking Museum
I wont say much about the viking museum the next day except that its run by volunteers who love everything about vikings and their way of life. They are making a full scale replica of a viking ship and also run great activities for kids such as painting your name in runes (the viking alphabet) onto bark, making viking figure heads for ships and playing traditional viking games (they even had REAL knuckle bones - creepy huh?)
The coolest things of all were for little kids - they had made mini viking ships on wheels and axles so you could pull your children along in a little ship. cute.
The site of the museum is chosen because a farmer actually found a real viking ship here with a man buried in it - and his slave, and a bunch of dead horses to help him in the next life as well as food and tools.
Crabbing
On our last day with the girls we drove to a little harbour town with a beach and a massive dock.
The Danes are extremely nice people who dont vandalise anything - proving this point - someone has made and donated to the general public a "crab racer" - which you can see in the video.
To "crab" we found a couple of mussels, squashed them under foot and put them on a peg tied to the end of a length of wool and dangled them in the water. The crabs literally came running, grabbed the mussels and held on while we pulled them out of the water. Here's what we did next.....
Goodbye Aia and Julia - thanks for giving us such an enjoyable stay. i hope we'll see you sometime in the future - hopefully sooner than later.
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