Vacation Monday, part 1 (June 8): LEGO tour

Today was tour day!

We started out with a great breakfast again.  I saw something called student bread and grabbed a piece.  The pieces were small  (1" cubes) and so sweet.  It was a pastry crust, what tasted like the jelly part of a Danish, and topped with small layer of frosting and sprinkles.  Apparently it's supposed to be a way to use up extra ingredients, but I had it two days and it was the same both times so I'm not sure that's the case anymore.

We walked to the LEGO house this time - it's about a twenty minute walk.  We got there a few minutes early so climbed the blue stairs.  Last time we were here I went half way up the yellow stairs for a picture and I regretted not climbing all over the outside of the house.  (To be fair, there just wasn't time.)

We started by building ourselves out of minifigures.  I choose a bag (because I'm the person that carries the bag when we travel) and a donut. Ben had wanted a surfboard and got one passed to him too.  There were two people named Ben and they both had Benny shirts on.  Isaac was wearing the LEGO shirt he made in art and got several compliments on it.

Our first tour stop was the museum.  It's interesting to hear the stories behind LEGO company - the founding, the ups, and the downs.

LEGO comes from LEg Godt, which translated is 'Play Well'.

The original ducks LEGO made:

Transitioning from wooden toys to plastic building bricks.

The patent (and our guide, a LEGO historian)

A cat!

I really liked this vase, although I expect that the lighting and case color helped a ton.  Also, I noticed that nothing was dusty and then one person on the tour asked about that...it is the responsibility of the history department to keep it clean.)

Then we went to the vault.  It had moved since the last time we were here and it was so much nicer.  Before it was in crank shelves and everyone had to be in the same few rows as everyone else and it was in the basement.  Now it was up higher so there were windows and natural light and there were stationary shelves with wide rows.  We found several different interesting sets.

With set 1!

Browsing

Joshua looked at most of the Minecraft sets

This set, the Minecraft mountain, was one that Isaac really wanted for years.  Unfortunately, by the time he realized it was a set it was retired and way too expensive.

Joshua with his first big set.

Cheryl with a favorite set.

Browsing.

While we never got this set, I made Isaac take a picture with it because for a period of time his favorite color was black and he was into all black everything.  We got a bulk LEGO of black pieces that he played with on the counter while I made dinner.

On the way back I had Ben take a picture of me by the window trees because I was wearing my tree shirt.