181/356: Lego Star Wars Advent Calender

I have been a bit lazy about the blogging in the last few days. Please forgive me! I have a few days off now and I plan to catch up on all the things from the last few days.

Last Monday I got to open the first door of my Lego Star Wars Advent Calender. It was a very happy and joyous event. I am not sarcastic about that. I had been waiting to open it for a while.

This is the first advent calender I got myself, ever. I am not sure if you have advent calenders where you are from so let me explain the concept. You have a calender for December and every day you can open a door and you find a little toy, a sweet or a picture depending on what kind of calender you have. It is a awesome thing!

Doing this let me combine two things, I was able to get myself an advent calender and I was able to get some Lego. I wanted some Lego ever since I visited the Lego shop a few weeks back. I have the calender at work, so even if I have a bad day there, I still get to do something awesome. You wouldn't believe the amount of envy I get.

So since I am off for a few days, I will get many doors to open when I return to work. YAY!

122/356: Lego Heaven

I stumbled into Lego heaven on my trip to Berlin.

I have seen these magical places before but never been in one. These places that seem to come straight from myth are Lego shops. Yes you read that right, shops that sell nothing else but Lego. Anybody who, like me and my brothers, used to own giant boxes filled with Lego will understand how excited I was to just to have a look around. We didn't own consoles, we weren't allowed to watch tv but we sunk endless hours building, tearing down and rebuilding our worlds. 

Much has changed since I last bought a set. Generic castles and city sets have made space for movie tie ins and stuff for more mature people (like the architecture series). I thought about actually getting something but then I couldn't come up with a place where I could display it in my apartment so I had to leave without anything.

*sigh* to be nine again....

 look at that.. you need a stone for your own project, just buy em like that.. so awesome!