Vacation Sunday part 1: Mini Chef

Today was a bit of an extra day.  We built it in in case flights went very south and so that we could get used to the time change before our tour on Monday.

We hadn't realized that we needed to reserve a time for breakfast, so we ended up with a 7:30 breakfast.  Not ideal, but we did schedule lunch for 11 so it was probably good too.  The buffet was great!  It had some interesting flavors (pear banana yogurt, rhubarb juice, currant juice) along with enough normal things.

After breakfast several of us went back to sleep.  I know that's not really what you're supposed to do when there's a time change, but at the same time we didn't have any plans and no one had slept well on the planes.  We eventually got up and were about to start walking to LEGO house and it started to rain.  We went by taxi instead.

Lunch at LEGO house was very nice!  We're actually going to eat there again - we didn't realize that when we booked these reservations.  The robots are fun, the story behind the mini figures making our lunches is fun, and the food was good.  The kids got a mini figure chef as part of their lunch and Isaac asked if these were the retired mini figures, now sent home to be played with.  Unfortunately, that isn't the case.  They were on dishwashing duty today and didn't want to dishwash because they have tiny hands, so their punishment was to be sent home with kids.

The robots that hand out the meals!  The mini chefs make the meals in the back, then they come down the track and the robots push them out to you.

Ordering drinks.  This part was pretty normal.

Ordering food.  You select four bricks where the color and shape corresponds to the food you want.  It can be put together any way (as long as it's flat) and then gets scanned.  The scanned result is shown moving to the kitchen so the mini-chefs know what to make.

Picking up food.

All of us!

There were so many lovely bouquets around.  I was a bit envious.

Ben noticed how they displayed some of the small flower sets and we both really like it.  We looked for similar boxes to use at home instead of the current shelves, but rectangle shelves don't seem to exist.

A model of how the kitchen looks. :)

It was still raining and our next activity was an outside one, so we just hung around the entry of LEGO house for a bit.  We looked in the gift store and at several of the models.  The rain seemed to let up, so we were off.

These bricks called out to the kids every time we went by them.

Wednesday: obstacle course

Mrs. Galli invited Joshua and some friends to use the obstacle course at the dojang today.  It was a perfect day because the whole week has been too hot to do anything outside, so they were still able to run around without getting too hot.

Our plans for tomorrow were canceled.  It might be a good thing because it was outside at a playground and we'd need to get out of the house rather early so that it was only hot and and not crazy hot.  However, this means that we pretty much have boring-for-Joshua plans tomorrow.