Our Awesome Holiday in Germany: Tizian

Today is Taran's birthday and we took off early for Legoland. The trip there took forever! It took so long but it was worth it once we reached Legoland. We had to go on several motorways, they are called Autobahn. There are some places without speed limit! There were a few funny things on the way like a drive-through bakery, lots of solar panels in fields and on roofs of houses and some humongous wind turbines.

At Legoland there were loads of activities. Some people stay the night at the holiday village, but we just visited for the day.

Entrance area

The first thing we ever did was check out the Lego Ninjago Mini Land. It showed some of the scenes from the Ninjago TV episodes, it looked so accurate!

Our first ride was in the Techno Teacups. They looked like giant pieces of Lego Technic in the shape of cups and worked just like actual fairground teacup rides (turning in three different directions). All three of us, in one cup, kept on crashing into each other! It was pretty awesome, a good taste of what was to come.

After that we went on the Project X roller coaster with our Dad - it was our first roller coaster ever! Yasha kept his eyes closed for most of the ride because it was very scary, Taran enjoyed it, and Tizian wanted to do it again! The most annoying thing were the speed changes that kept on pulling and pushing us around.

Atlantis Expedition

We had to queue forever AND it was raining. Once inside we watched a short video about Atlantis, it was in both German and English. Next we checked out the aquariums that housed fish and lego models. Yasha took lots of photographs but they are darker because you weren't allowed to use a flash.

Pirate Land

Taran and Tizi entered a Pirate School Ship. The ride looked quite scary but they said it wasn't really.

From there we continued to explore and came across some battle ships:

We battled other ships and people on land - it was excellent!

We continued to the Adventure Land. We didn't complete any of the activities there, but this is one of the rides some people took:

Kingdom of the Pharaohs

The Kingdom of the Pharaohs had a giant pyramid-like structure. We entered it and hopped onto little cars that were following a track. There were two guns in each car for you to shoot at colourful targets and the car display kept track of your score so you could compete against each other. Yasha beat Tizi, and Mum beat Taran. We really enjoyed the ride! (no photos, sorry!)

Huge tower

From there we continued to a ginormous tower with a platform that lifted us up above all of Legoland. It span around slowly so you can see everything and descended gently back down. He are some of the photos:

The Knights' Kingdom

A castle in the Holiday Village (we didn't go there)

Project X roller coaster in the back and Miniature Land in front

The Kingdom of the Pharaohs

Firedragon Roller Coaster Tracks

Knights' Kingdom

Or next stop was the Knights' Kingdom. We started out on yet another roller coaster:

This was less scary than the last one. We entered the castle but that only led to the Fire Dragon Ride which Tizi and Dad took (photos on a different camera, sorry!). Tizi loved it! There were lots of funny activities, some Lego pigs grunting with their snouts in their Lego bucket, a ride on horses through the trees etc.

Next we boarded the Lego city train. There were some little kids' activities and if you had lots of time you could do your Legoland Drivers Licence.

The Lego Fabrik (factory) was AWESOME! They showed us a short movie clip, then we could walk through their factory with lots of interesting displays. In the end we got through an area that sold all sorts of different individual bricks. This is the Souvenir brick everyone got:

Miniland

Miniland had replicas of real life stuff but in miniature and made of Lego. They had amazing models of the Munich Airport, Venice, Switzerland, Berlin (the German capital), a sports stadium with a huge audience etc. with lots of automation like ships floating on rivers, trams and trains running, cars and trucks driving, a ferris wheel turning etc. We also discovered a Star Wars area:

At 3pm we watched a short 4D movie with Clutch Powers. 4D is like 3D, you wear these funny glasses, but in addition they splash water, spray smoke etc. It wasn't all that impressive because we were sitting in the last row and didn't really get much of these special effects.

Last but not least we ended at the Legoshop. It was breathtaking! There were all sets imaginable and we had a hard time deciding what to spend our money on. This is what we finally settled on:

Yasha's choice and

Taran's choice.

It was a long journey back, but we stopped at McDonalds on the way. Their Happy Meals taste the same, but their toys are different. Today was the most awesomest day of our holiday yet!

On Friday 5 July we went to the Erlebnisfeld der Sinne with our cousin Simon and his mum, our aunt Manuela. It is a large outdoor area with fun science stuff. around this area was a park and lots of people were riding bikes.

For example they had a spinning globe, made from rock, floating on top of another rock just by having a thin layer of water in between. They had prisms, a diagonal house that looked totally normal from the outside, but once you were inside, you keep on crashing into the walls. There were balance boards, balance beams, a huge swing with two seats opposite each other - one person swings and the other one gets pulled, too.

Inside a big tent there were lots of smelly jars, and you had to guess what they were (some smelled nice, and some were disgusting!). Tizi, Simon and Yasha smelled them. On the other side you had to feel objects under a table, inside boxes and inside jars and guess what they were. Tizian and Simon just felt them and pulled the objects out without guessing. In one of the smaller tents we watched a presentation about light - the adults liked it but we thought it was boring.

Across a swinging bridge there was an area with a hamster wheel, a globe that did not move, a kaleidoscope, a long jump area, something about colours etc. We crossed back to the other side via a ferry that had no engine! It was attached to a bridge upstream by a long rope, and by moving some triangular thing under water the current of the river Pegnitz moved the ferry from one side to the other.

We will add photos when we can get them off the other camera.

I wish we could have a place like this in New Zealand!