Big Adventures, Little World

Mark, Sam, Katie and I went for a drive out of London to go to Lego Land in Windsor. Katie wasn’t too thrilled about going, but we all knew she secretly enjoyed it, and Mark, Sam and I were extremely excited having grown up playing with Lego. We got there early morning and were instantly amazed by everything being made from Lego. It is set out over 150 acres and has nearly 55 million Lego pieces throughout the park.

I think that the coolest part of the whole place though was Lego Miniland, which has landmarks from around Europe and the USA, and compromises over 40 million of the 55 million bricks throughout the park. It includes scenes from around London like Big Ben, the London Eye, Wembley Stadium, Trafalgar Square & Buckingham Palace, plus many more. Some of the other models it has are NASA and a space shuttle, the Sacre Coeur in France, the Moulin Rouge, Edinburgh Castle in Scotland, ABBA playing a concert in Sweden, the town of Verona in Italy and many, many more. I think me, Mark and Sam spent nearly 2 hours walking around Mini Land, and Katie was bored after she had quickly scanned over it all and sat down and waited for us to be amazed by every bit of it, and spending half the time saying we had been to many of the places featured.

Throughout the day we even managed to go on a few rides, although they were mainly focused around being for kids, we still had fun, and it was more the fact of seeing everything and being there that was enjoyable for us. We also got to see a 4D movie of the Lego hero Clutch Powers. It went for about 20 minutes and was in 3D with the 4^th dimension being water and smoke coming out at you in time with those occurrences in the movie. I think we must have looked like the biggest big kids through the day, taking photos of everything and going on the rides. I think between Mark, Sam and I we took over 1200 photos. We loved it, and didn’t get home until about 7pm that night. A long and fun day, except for Katie, but we knew she really did enjoy it.