Fall Break: Adventure Number One! (Legoland)

Hey everyone,

So it is the first official day of Fall Break today and I did something that I have wanted to do ever since I heard I was going to Denmark.  This morning I went to Legoland!

I went to Legoland with my second host family Ole, Annette, Frida, and Frederik.  They have seasons passes so they go as often as possible and they seemed very excited to show me everything.  Frederik told me that he knew Legoland like the back of his hand, so he showed me everything that I needed to see.  

For people who don't know anything about Legoland, it is basically a huge family amusement park, with rides (roller coasters) and many objects, buildings, people, made out of Lego!  It is really cool to see, Mt. Rushmore with over 1 million lego pieces in it.  The detail is incredible and everything looks so real!  The cities and monuments that are made out of Lego look exactly like they do in person.  The town I am living in (Brædstrup) is actually in Legoland.  Brædstrup is known for producing solar energy, so Legoland built some buildings that you see while walking through my town, and also different solar panels being showing on roofs of houses in Brædstrup.  Its funny how when I tell different people in Denmark I live in Brædstrup, they usually have no idea where it is, yet it is being displayed in Legoland!

Overall it was a fun filled day filled with rides, and Lego, while getting to know my second host family better.  

If you don't know much about Lego, and your wondering why is Legoland in Denmark?  Well here is the answer, taken from the always trust full website, Wikipedia: "The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark. Christiansen began creating wooden toys in 1932; the company began calling itself "Lego" two years later in 1934. The company expanded to producing plastic toys in 1940. In 1949, Lego began producing the now-famous interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks." These bricks were based largely on the design of Kiddiecraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were released in the UK in 1947. The first Lego bricks, manufactured from cellulose acetate, were developed in the spirit of traditional wooden blocks that could be stacked upon one another; however, these plastic bricks could be "locked" together. They had several round "studs" on top, and a hollow rectangular bottom. The blocks snapped together, but not so tightly that they could not be pulled apart. The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well"."

And there you go.  A little bit about Lego.

Click here for photos of Legoland.

Skål,

Dillon

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