Month: July 2008

The picture is a variation on old theme and shows Tony and the girls waiting to go and see one of the 4D movies at Legoland at which we were sprayed with dragon snot amongst other things. What was different about Legoland this year (apart from the re-designed 3D glasses) was that we went for two days and stayed at the hotel, a long time wish of Mia’s. The idea had originally been to do this with our Chinese guest but as she never came we did it alone. The weather was very hot and the queues very long but as hotel residents we were allowed early into the park the next morning and were able to enjoy a brief half hour of short queues before the rest of the public had made it to the back of the park where the best rides are.

The girls had a room overlooking the park and particularly appreciated the second flat screen TV positioned conveniently in the toilet.

The large adventure playground in which Adam used to get lost has disappeared to make way for a splash everybody in sight attraction.

The video below shows Gwen and Mia on one of their favorite rides.

This shows that you don’t need a snow storm to get stuck round here. Many people wonder how we can live without a tractor and at times like this so do we! You can also treat this as a Danish lesson. Try to work out what the different characters are saying. This occurred before we went on our recent trip to the UK by the way.

Luckily I had taken a photo of the arrangement which we liked in IKEA on my phone because when we returned the following week to make a definite order they had changed it all and we would have had to order it from memory. As it was, the saleswoman used the phone picture to make up the order and we had it delivered a week later in a ginormous lorry who had difficulty manoevring through our green lane. And then the fun began!

What is especially challenging is when a crucial screw is missing. They are so tailormade that you cannot just go out to the garage and take one from your own stores so it was another phone call to IKEA and we will get the missing items in the post. I expect it will be finished before the end of August.

We have had some good weather and the girls like nothing better than to eat outside. So here is Gwen among the poppies cooking on a Trangia a few weeks ago.

At the end of May Gwen went south to take part in the Danish championship for best scout team having won the regionals earlier in the month. After much orienteering, morse coding and first aiding her team won and are now the Danish champions for two years until the next championship. Of course this made the local papers with a very bad group photo in which no-one was recognisable.