Short break to the capital of Sweden

So happy to be back home!!! Spending 6 hours stuck in the car with a 11 month old baby is so not fun. Plus the stockholm weather is insane - raining and snowing during the first 2 days of our trip. Never take any pictures outdoors, too cold to even want to take out the camera at all. So mostly are food pictures!!

We arrived quite late at Kungsbron hotel, it was drizzling and we had dinner at Pong's restaurant but totally forgotten to take any photos when faced with the shiok like mad dimsum + thai + sushi buffet. We were tired after a long day of traveling so we just call it a day and head back for some rest.

Our 2nd day in Stockholm- SNOWING!!! Mad right!

Our only stuff on our itinerary was shopping and the Army Museum. We were wet and shivering in the cold and had to seek shelter at the nearest Macdonalds. It's a good thing hat the Macdonalds in Sweden has a microwave for warming up baby food. Elliot had his lunch (baby bottled food) there while we warmed ourselves with some hot coffee.

Then it's more shivering in the cold and wet until we found a sushi place to have dagens lunch.

SUSHI YAMA! Pricey but their sushi is tastier (according to GW) than Kalmar's.

I ordered a Bento set.

His 18 pcs sushi mix and free flow miso soup.

Gave Elliot a chopstick and he started stirring my food with it.

Elliot discreetly stuffed a thin piece of radish into his mouth

Some pictures from the Army Museum.

Everything was written in swedish and was glad the entrance ticket includes a free audioguide.

Here we see a pair of couple paktoring and the audio guide was talking about the decline in birth rate during war. Yah of course who in the right mind will want to give birth during a war!!!

GW will die if he never disturb the guy

Inside the room of crime and punishment.

Looks painful.

And they have a miniature version for visitors to try (at their own risk)

Old school canteen!!!

And they are playing oldies from this vintage jukebox.

Okay I'm just pretending to look like I'm dancing to the song.

You can just ignore me.

Then we came to this area with an assortment of rifles

Dig gold with the sword?

I was trying to take a non-flash picture and asked GW to keep still so the picture will not turn out blurry.

But the rifles are too heavy and GW was shaking when he tried to hold still for me.

YOU THOUGHT YOU ARE "SHI TAI LONG" (Sylvester Stallone) arh?

In the end gotta take one with flash.

GW took super alot of rifles pictures, I'm only gonna post one here!

Lazy to resize lah....

After spending 4 hours in the museum, we are going back to hotel to freshen up and get ready for dinner

Dinner at Stockholm Hardrock cafe. Our third time there! 

And GW must order his favourite mango berry cooler.

And my double berry cooler.

Our platter is here!

Catching the metro back.

It's almost 10pm and Elliot is looking stone here...

But don't know why he's so full of energy when we reached the hotel.

Giving me the "I-don't-wanna-sleep" face

Sianzzz...

Last day in Stockholm and I finally see some sun.

Pizzahut lunch.

Got so hungry meh....

They don't have scampi pizza there!!!

Actually wanna cheong 1 more time at Pong's restaurant before we go but they close for renovation!!!

 Got so coincidental or not... Good thing we ate there on our first night.

Last picture to end our short break and probably our last (Europe) roadtrip.

Hello Singapore, we are counting down! 

Boxes are here already, can start packing liao...

LEGO OVERDOSE

Legoland = Kids paradise. (we are old kids)

Here's the website link just in case you are interested.

"L" is for Legoland ok!!!

Tourist posing with another tourist.

But Sharon you still lose to him leh, he has more cameras than you!

Totally famished after the long drive and decided to settle for lunch first.

GW acting silly with the toothpick holder.

Food is expensive in Legoland.

My sister offered to treat us lunch.

We ordered a jamaican pizza, salmon pasta and beef pasta.

Total damage was $100+ but they came in huge portions so still can close one eye and not curse them too fiercely.

The pizza

GW wanted a picture with this huge-ass drink I'm sharing with my sister

Elliot gulping his papa's organic blackcurrant juice

Elliot: Wah the adult's drinks all taste so shiok one arh!

Lego table in the restaurant

Elliot KO-ed in his stroller after lunch and we decided to explorethe Miniland.

Super amazed by the things they built with lego bricks.

GW saw this duck from afar and went " Wah, the lego duck looks so real!!!"

It's a REAL duck lor.

Choo Choo.. Train is coming!!!

I'm like a big suakoo and snapped tons and tons of photos in the Miniland, too many to post in my blog so I just select a few which I liked to share here.

 

The bridge could actually open up by its own and let the ship pass.

I love taking close up of  lego characters and give them imaginery dialogues.

Alfresco dining

Let's do the midsummer dance

They even have the Kennedy Space Center’s NASA Rocket Garden lor!

Somemore got smoke coming out from rocket when blasting off.

The habour at Copenhagen, Nyhavn.

A380!

Amsterdam in lego!

Lego trashbin

No budget to stay in Legoland hotel.

Check in to our hotel room - Svanen hotel.

Our room number 111.

It's a junior suite for 4 pax with a spa bath tub

Elliot don't like....

 Papa so happy with his legoman keychains

Then it's back to Legoland.

Pirateland!

Legoland closes at 8pm but the rides only operate til 6pm.

We got gancheong and began cheonging all the rides to make the ticket worth.

Everything made with lego ok, including the big skull head on the top.

This pirate boat is quite fun cuz you can shoot water out from your canon at other boats as well as the visitors nearby.

The legotrain ride!

Group zipai but my skill not good enough.

Reeady to set off!

Train operator helped us with a group photo.

Dangerous act - Stick out camera out of the train and take photo.

But Elliot was admiring a angmoh girl.

One more with papa.

Cute ride- The safari jeep

Elliot took this ride twice cuz I wanted to give it a go too.

He makes so much noise (googoo and gagas) when the jeep drove pass all the lego animals.

The giraffes in the safari

And ostriches.

Next up- The Goldmine train

I was sitting in the carriage facing the opposite direction.

Wrong move. Motion sickness kicked in the middle of the train ride!

Duplo Plane. GW chose the green plane!

Elliot happily sucking his fingers throughout the ride.

On the way to Adventure land for the trilling rides and GW asked me to take this pig picture.

The llama squirted water at the aligator when he tried to attack the poor stranded legoman.

Help! Eaten by shark!!!

Elliot in the treasure chest!

So happy arh!!!

 

My sister managed to make him smile until cannot see eyes.

Quickly snap before it's gone!!!

King's ice cream, anyone?

Inside the Legoshop.

GW is building his own legoman. You get to choose the hairstyle/clothes/accessories for your legoman.

3 legoman costs 59.95DKK but it's only 99DKK if you build 6 of them.

And they can look something like this.

Lego backpack!

But Elliot doesn't need it yet.

Yeah, we are like the last few visitors who left Legoland at 8pm.

Must fully utilise the ticket mah!

Reached hotel. Check with the hotel reception for the nearest fastfood chain and she told us need to drive 30minutes of Billund. SIAN! It's been a tiring day already, don't wanna spend 1 hour travelling for food.

And we ate at the restaurant in the hotel.

Restaurant No. 8

Flipped open the menu and had a shock of our lives - EXPENSIVE LIKE MAD.

The $$$ totally caught us off guard.

But the waiter already set the table nice nice for us liao, then not very nice to just walk away right.

Plain water costs 59DKK. You know why so expensive?

Because the water was collected by a naked man (see the print on the bottle)

Just kidding.

The food is so expensive until it came with a complimentary appetizer.

Just a few pieces of bacon, a radish and some edible soil.

My baked salmon.

His bacon pasta 185DKK (cheapest maincourse on the menu)

My sister ordered schnitzel and it came with so many so many peas!!!

See already very full liao, no need to eat.

I was totally underdressed with a tshirt.

Thought can just grab a burger or what, have a quick bath then zonk out in bed.

Didn't know it's a fine dining place.

 

Elliot already had his dinner in the room before we came down.

Happy baby!

Back in the hotel room with all his nonsense...

Next day, we drove out of Billund and head to Copenhagen.

We had KFC for lunch at Field's shopping mall!

Elliot eats the bread from my zinger burger.

King prawn ramen

Not authentic at all.

Taste like maggi mee soup and the noodles they use is also wrong.

GW's sushi.

We didn't bring the slow cooker with us for this trip.

Elliot eats baby bottled food, fruits and also a little of whatever we were having.

 

Shopping time and Elliot started nodding away in his stroller.

He dropped the KFC flag a few seconds after this shot.

Totally beat.

P/S: Driving to Stockholm tomorrow for a short getaway! YAY, I wanna eat at Pong's restaurant!!!