Billund, the home of LEGO

 We spent a few days in Billund, entirely so we could visit Lego House, which is an interactive Lego museum, art gallery, and archive of the history of Lego. We were very lucky that our friend Grant came to join us on this adventure and we got to share the fun. 

The Tree of Creativity is four stories tall, & is made up of 6, 316, 611 bricks!!! This photo shows the top two levels. When the building was built the staircase was too small to go around the tree, so they built a new staircase (apparently it was cheaper to do it this way)

The day we arrived they opened a “Space Experience Zone” - perfect timing

This is the Masterpiece Gallery, with lego creations from invited lego artists. These three dinosaurs are respectively made out of duplo, regular lego bricks and lego technic.

Skye made a Lego friend

This is a Lego Wedding dress created by Australian Veronica Young. You can see more about it here on the Lego House instagram page

There are massive brick pits on all levels, and every seat or bench has lego incorporated into it so you can create and play whilst you rest your legs.

Jacqui, Hannah & Connor took part in Robocup with Lego Mindstorms, so it was wonderful to see a display about it in the history section of the House. 

Stan Lee

Lunch came in Lego bento boxes (& was surprisingly delicious)

Testing out the cars we made on the race track

This giant waterfall flowed into a lego brick pit

This person had spent 3 hours making this caricature carrot, just using the pieces available in the big pile of bricks. He was just finishing up on the piece of dirt for it to sit in. Each day the staff pull apart everything made in the brick pits, but also occasionally select great creations to be displayed in the gallery alongside professional lego artists. We thought this gentleman had a great chance of having his carrot selected for display. 

Every car on the airside of Billund Airport is yellow, it made playing yellow car very easy.

We stayed at the Refborg Hotel in Billund, and they had the most amazing contraption for cutting cheese for your breakfast.