After a seven hour drive through 4 countries, the ABC game, and lots of crumbs we arrived in Munich at the home of our vicini lontani. Doeke and Anna's smiling son, Senne met us and eagerly showed Ella and Luca all his "autos". Little welcome packages with rainy day legos were on each of their pillows and we felt right at home. Tom Hardman, another dear friend from the early Pininfarina days flew down from England for the weekend. The days were filled with sandy playgrounds, a Daddy son/daughter tour of the BMW museum, a good dose of Asian food, a shopping afternoon for the gals, and a few beer gardens for the guys.
On Easter Sunday we were all invited to the Kottmann's home for Easter brunch, former Torinesi. We munched on Weisbrat (authentic white Munich sausages), easter eggs, italian colomba bread, and pastries of all shapes and sizes. The kids enjoyed a chocolate themed egg hunt outside, and we came back inside just in time for the snow to start falling.
On Monday we said our goodbyes to the DeWalles and headed west to magical Legoland. The theme song from the Lego Movie, Everything is Awesome was blaring at the main entrance in German and English on constant rotation. Luca was over the moon and naturally darting from one thing to another like a ping pong ball. Highlights: Lego Miniature villages (at the Munich Football Stadium camera's are flashing, the anthem is played and team flags are unscrolled in a packed stadium), a ride with Ella on a very fast merry go round, she was squealing the whole time, and then watching Ella run up to every person in costume and give them a big hug! I can only imagine what Disneyland will be like.
Perhaps even better than Legoland is Lego Village. Our themed cottage was the Racer. How appropriate! There were several playgrounds, paved paths perfect for Luca's scooter, 2 tricycle test tracks, a bowling alley, a tree park, putt putt, and every restaurant was well equipped with a Lego playroom. The Kottman's with their two kids Theo & Edda joined us the next day for one more run around at Legoland. By 3:30pm we got some last group photos, some tears were shed due to too much fun, and we headed home to Pecetto.
On the way home Luca asked if he could stay at home the next day to put together his new Lego boat. "I have a big job to do, plus I have to sleep." Who could say no to that?!
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