Everything Is Awesome
![A 30-year-old man with blond hair and beard, smiling widely in front of the red LEGO sign of the LEGO Headquarters.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/sign.jpg)
![The same goofy man in front of a statue of three giant, adult-sized, four-by-two LEGO bricks.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/statue.jpg)
![A bronze statue of two children---one standing, the other kneeling---building a tall tower of LEGO Duplo bricks.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/bronze.jpg)
The Lego House, an interactive museum dedicated to the brick.
![A blocky white building with an expansive cement plaza.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/lego-house.jpg)
![A family of LEGO monkeys have a picnic in a giant LEGO tree.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/monkeys.jpg)
![The tree is enormous---many stories tall, with lots of branches and platforms of leaves that exhibit cities, towns, castles, and picnicking monkeys.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/tree.jpg)
![A crane is atop the tree, hoising a leaf into place, helping the tree grow ever taller.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/tree-construction.jpg)
![An enormous green and brown LEGO two-legged dinosaur with bright white teeth, defending two eggs.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/dinosaur-green.jpg)
![A more whimsical red-and-yellow LEGO dinosaur, with small leaves and animals riding along.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/dinosaur-red.jpg)
I made this.
![A blocky white LEGO snowman with a black tophat, orange nose, and red scarf smoking a black pipe.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/snowman.jpg)
![A rearing horse made of white LEGO.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/horse.jpg)
![A LEGO skier about to take off from a ski jump.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/ski-jump.jpg)
![A LEGO lighthouse on a rocky island with a small beach, breaking the waves.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/lighthouse.jpg)
![A LEGO reindeer water skiing.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/reindeer.jpg)
![An abstract, round LEGO tower.](/images/2017-12-03-billund/tower.jpg)
Billund, Danemark
On my way to Odense for Technical Advances in Lattice Field Theory I flew through Billund. LEGOLAND itself was closed for the winter, but the recently-opened LEGO House was great. Very interactive, with lots of creative opportunities and amazing exhibits.