Our holiday started with a horrible long drive to the well known holiday destination of Slough including a stop at possibly the worst Burger King in the world (and that takes some doing) at Stirling and an overnight stay at the Travelodge at Southwaite. Thankfully, the Copthorne had a swimming pool, decent grub, and comfortable rooms.
Slough is of course famous as the location for The Office but we were there because it's a short hop from Legoland, Windsor. We had two-day tickets which gave us enough time to get on all the rides we wanted to, especially as we missed the English school holidays so it was a bit quieter, and we went early and stayed right to closing time. My favourite ride was the Viking River Splash, Vikki's was the Jungle Coaster. The boys seemed to have a great time on everything, and both passed at the Lego Driving School. We managed to get soaked by a combination of rain and what the rides threw at us, but it didn't matter as we had a great time. We even had time to go to the shop where Lachlan got a new car and Calum got a cuddly Lego man who was named "Lego Ben" for about a day before he became "Digger Doug". I resisted the urge to blow £180 on a Mindstorms NXT kit but it was a close thing.
Anyway, here are some pictures, although you'd be best clicking on one and going to the Picasa site to see them bigger
4 comments:
Fantastic. Love the Dalek attack, brilliant. And as for the sodding Sacre-Coeur...wait, wait, you get to drive diggers at Legoland?! I want to go!
Oh and it looks like the Artist formerly known as Lego Ben is bigger than Magnus, are you sure that's safe.
This looks like a fun time in Lego land! It is amazing what can be built of Lego's.
Great pictures!
Wonder how long it would take to get there from Cambridge...
ian: I thought the Dalek was a nice touch, along with the Vader/Obi-Wan tableau in the space bit. There were also models from Batman in the middle of the London bit. The diggers are stationary, so you don't actually get to drive them but you get to play with the mechanical arm which is the fun bit.
jen: it was great fun - I'm hoping the boys will be inspired in their model making (although not to the point of saying "please can I have a ton of white bricks so I can make St Pauls Cathedral, daddy")
fi: about an hour and a half I would guess (depending on M25 traffic conditions)
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