Yeah! Sunshine all day!!!
The Legoland Village provided a terrific breakfast to start our day. We checked out and were able to leave our baggage at the hostel for the day. Already at 10:00 a.m. when we got there were the cars lined up. It was very, very crowded, so we were glad we got an early start. The festive atmosphere struck me first, and unlike Valley Fair or Six Flags or even Liseberg, this was an amusement park dedicated to simple play. Even the lines to get on the rides had a little section with a large container of Legos and an area for building surrounding it where kids could play and create while the adults with them moved along the waiting lines inching toward the rides. Their kids were always in full view, and once they arrived at the front of the line, they could easily (well, not always, because some of the kids didn't want to be torn away from their intense Lego building once they were into it) call them back into the line again to get on the ride. It was so fun watching the kids' intensity and pride as they built their little 10-20 minute creations, and truthfully, when I watched Carina and Robby make their own little creations in the comfort of our hostel room, I could see those same emotions surface!
The park was made up, like Disneyland, into adventure "lands" like the Wild, Wild West,
the Jungle, 
Duplo-Land (devoted to the toddlers and 3-4 year olds who have not fully graduated to the miniature size of Legos for fear of swallowing.
There was even an opportunity for kids to take a driving safety course while driving little Lego cars. The instructor taught them rules of the road, the European signage, and how to signal right and left. Upon completion of the "course," they were given a Legoland Driver's License. This was for ages 7-13, and Robby almost convinced Carina to duck down in line and try it with him.
We also visited (twice!) the 4-D movies (done with no specific language and filled with fun special effects the special glasses enabled us to see. Once in the theatre, I was reminded of Carina's fear seeing "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" done the same way at Disneyworld when she was 4. She was so frightened! She weathered this one beautifully, however, and we came back later to see the Racer Movie.
The rides were fun but nothing like we're used to in the States, but the Legos were more than interesting. There were little villages (made to look like Sweden,
San franciso, Hamlet's Castle Kronborg, the Statue of Liberty, 
Mount Rushmore,
etc.) everywhere, and lots of things moved and whistled and looked so real and quaint at the same time.We enjoyed the whole thing and, as usual, finished the visit off with ice cream! Note the Romeo and Juliet allusion!
We opted to go back to the hostel about 4:00 not not only to kill some time, but it enabled Carina and Robby to play with more Legos in the lobby before we took off for the bus to Vejle and the train up on the northeast coast up to Aarhus where we we to spend the night.
We arrived about 7:30, found the Cab Inn, dropped off our luggage and went exploring for a place to eat. We found Mackie's, a great little pizza and burger place just down from our hotel, which had a river flowing alongside it. Mackie's was just what we needed. Robby had a huge mushroom cheese burger, and Carina and I split a huge Veggie pizza. Yum!
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