LEGOLAND: 6 April 2007

I thought my blog has an automated cobweb eliminator device. I must have forgotten to switch it on. In actuality, the kids are still unwell. They managed to spread the bugs to the Babah. So there were three poorly 'babies' at home during the weekend! Despite the low mood around the house, the Mama on the other hand has managed to get her almost-dead brain cells exercising again. Yippee! I guess Babah doesn't call me 'Painkiller Jane' for nothing!

Legoland stories now. We planned to visit a few places on the Southern part of the UK. With the help of Auntie and Uncle De, we had a splendid holiday. It was the beginning of Easter break, Friday 6 April 2007. Our family began our journey from our home around 8.20am. While the Des made their way separately and we were to meet somewhere in the theme park.

It was a smooth ride journey alhamdulillah. The kids behaved tremendously well. Amar slept the whole way and Sarah was equally excellent, although she only had a thirty minutes nap. As usual, I always find myself gaping in awestruck whenever we enter a new terrain. Not that there was a sandstorm, but the aura and the feel would always be different from our 'humble' Coventry.

You can say that we were like "rusa masuk kampung". Well, I think it must have been the signs we saw along the way - "Welcome to Buckinghamshire" and "Windsor Castle" (an official residence of the Queen and the LARGEST occupied castle in the world!)

As you can see, the place was jam packed with people. Luckily Auntie De was eligible for some discounts at Legoland and ordered our ticket through the internet. We saved a lot of time queueing at the ticket booth and went straight to the entrance point with the print-at-home tickets.

Legoland covers a huge piece of land. I can almost guarantee that we didn't cover the whole place. The fact that it was a scorching hot day did not help either.

Our first stop was 'Miniland' - they claimed that some 35 million pieces of LEGO® bricks have been used to recreate scenes from Europe.



There were lots of stunning views for picture takings. However it was quite hard to get good angles of the subjects since there were always distractions. Lucky we brought along our handy Sony - the 3.1mp digital camera too. The lens is not in a tiptop condition, I've tried to clean it. But the hazy mark remained there. At least, I get to photograph Babah in action!

There were lots of different building. I didn't even try to remember their names. Do they look real to you?

They were actually the height of Sarah and Amar.


Anyone knows what building this is? I was busy answering a phone-call from Malaysia rather than reading the signposts. My nieces called to wish Amar a happy birthday. The place was too noisy that I didn't hear half of what they said, but I remember hearing their happy tone of voice and giggles. Thank you Izlin, Yaya and Anis for calling us. I was busy replying messages too. Not complaining, but it was really nice to receive messages from people you care about. Thanks Juyeh Azura (my long lost schoolmate) and DITH.



Besides the buildings, there were automated vehicles and windmills. Those attracted the little ones for some time while crunching on original flavoured Doritos.


(Have you had enough of Miniland yet?) We were there for a good hour until we made a move to the next part; where the real fun actually began (and no more memory space on the camera!).


Out of the many rides, this was the only ride Babah and Sarah had at Legoland. There was the height limit, restricting only 0.9m and above for most of the rides. Also some has age limit; like the driving licence range allowing only 6-13 years of age. Preference is another matter, Sarah might not like to go on a scary rides like the Dragon Coaster or a Pirate Falls. Of course, there was the queueing factor too.


Amar was already restless in his pushchair while waited Babah and Sarah queueing for the Whirlybirds ride. I took off his furry jacket and let him loose on the ground, then he was much happier.

Space Tower

The Des first 'ride' was the Space Tower. They had to pull themselves up to the top of the tower where an alien spaceship is hovering. Let go of the cable to descend gently and safely back to earth! (Pull themselves up, hmmmm!)


The intrepid Des even queued for almost an hour for this exhilarating ride! Yes, even Emyr!


For bigger kids like Shafiq (Auntie De's brother), there were so many other heart bracing rides like the above Jungle Coaster.


Sarah didn't even want to go on a free-drive boat ride.


She was scared of the 'moving' crocodile.


The Waterworks area looked like so much fun for the kids. Beware, just be ready to get wet!


The children had fun at the colourful playground.


SuperEmyr enjoyed himself too.


Not to forget Little Safiya.

DITH in one of the sms/messages I received that day said, "Wah Legoland! Hope Amar doesn't fall asleep." Unfortunately he did, throughout the second half of the time there.

All in all, we had an OK time there. Our next trip to another theme park will not be in the near future(!) and hopefully not during a school holiday.

p/s: Happy belated birthday to Uncle Afar - 12 April 2007. I did put up a 'wish' on the sidebar for him since I didn't quite have the time to do a proper entry on the day. Anyway Uncle Afar, we hope that you have enjoyed your first birthday with your wife. Send us some news PLEASE plus recent photos of your honeymoon in Bali(?).