We were up early so we could run a few miles before breakfast. I’d planned a rough route that would take us past Legoland and the LEGO Castle Hotel. Amazingly that hotel actually does look like a castle, made from LEGO. With Billund being so small though, I'd planned a bit of a spiral route to avoid doing laps, but after passing Legoland we remembered the idea of running in a brick shape, so headed to the part of the town where it'd be possible to draw that with our route. By the time we got back to the bungalow we'd done about 6K.

On our way back, we stopped by the Billund Bakery again, this time to get some Allansnegl for breakfast. This was like a cinnamon whirl drizzles with icing, and chocolate icing. Our tickets were for 11:00, so we'd got some time to get ready before needing to go back out. Whilst getting ready I got the tickets loaded on my phone ready, and for the first time since buying them a few months ago, actually read what they said.

There was an advert on them which indicated that if we wanted our food served to us by robots in the Mini Chef restaurant, we would have to pre-book. Sadly there were no spaces for today, which meant this part of the house we were looking forward to would be out of the question. They actually only serve food from 11:00 to 15:00, so a relatively small window for visitors.

We got to the LEGO house just before our time, and got the wristbands we’d need to use around the house. You can scan it to get a photograph near the entrance barriers, and then you scan it again to enter.

The first thing you see is a moulding machine that is actively making LEGO bricks, and packages them up in paper pack of six bricks as a souvenir for visitors. If you scan your wristband here it produces a card for your 'unique' six brick configuration. They also display a few of the past and present LEGO House exclusive sets here as well.

Downstairs is the history of LEGO starting from when the company started out making wooden toys, them experimenting with plastic toys, through to creating the LEGO System and the present day. For all of this there are actual pieces representing each of the eras they're talking about, and on the 'inside' track of the route route round there are headphones, braille, and tactile representations of the exhibits for the vision impaired. In the centre of this exhibition is a room with many more LEGO sets, and with screens for you to select different kits that you have, or remember having.

Going back up to the ground floor, we headed over to the Tree of Creativity which consists of 6,316,611 LEGO bricks, and showcases some of the sets on branches as you take the steps up to the top floor: the Masterpiece Gallery.

The gallery's main focal point are the three giant dinosaurs in the middle of the room, and then all around these in display cases are 'MOC' (My Own Creation) pieces created by AFOLs (Adult Fan Of LEGO). The dinosaurs are made from bricks that represent the three LEGO building systems: Duplo, LEGO System, and LEGO Technic.

The pieces on display are usually there for around a year, and the ones we saw were only present for another week or so before they changed once more. One of the largest ones there represented the Ministry of Magic from the Harry Potter films, with many different scenes represented across it. Carmen found a bench there with a box filled with different pieces of white LEGO. She took the time to assemble an impressive array of different pieces, many of which I'd not seen before.

After taking a picture using the Mosaic Machine, we headed down into the Red Zone. There's a large waterfall of LEGO bricks, and many tubs of bricks for you to create whatever your imagination can think of. Carmen started building a bridge from yellow bricks for our mini figures to stand on, so I decided to make a sword and shield from the bricks.

We then moved onto a pit of mixed colour bricks so Carmen started making hearts of every colour. I started making a BrickHeadz version of her, but it was a bit of a mess, and I couldn't even get close to the right colours. Maybe a bit of a mess was an understatement. It did however get taken over to the display table by a random person, and later we took one of Carmen’s hearts over to it. I also helped her make a LEGO house.

We glanced at the Blue Zone, but decided to move on to the Green Zone instead. This opens with large displays of cityscapes and the countryside with Easter eggs from all sorts of sets such as the gang from Scooby Doo being alongside the Ghostbusters, and elsewhere seeing Homer and Apu on the roof of a building. There's even the Town Hall from Back to the Future, complete with Doc Brown and Marty McFly.

There's also an area there for you to direct your own LEGO short, but the numbers for this are limited so you have to queue. You can also design your own mini figure as well, but it's a shame you don't get to keep your creation(s) after.

Other areas get you to create a mood board that produces a character on a screen that will dance, and another lets you create a fish that's released into an aquarium. By the time we got back round to the Blue Zone, it was almost 16:00 and we were told they would now be closing the Experience Zones. Before that though, we got to design LEGO cars to race, and another to have it jump through a hole. It took a while, but I did manage both in the end.

On our way out we stopped by the store to get our LEGO passports stamped. Of course I'd have liked to have got some LEGO from there but we were short on time. The exclusive sets were ones I wasn’t really interested in, but noticed one person buying three of the same set; so no doubt they’d be on eBay later.

Short on time before closing, we headed straight to the Teddy Bear Art Museum. This didn't actually take that long to look around. They've got some old bears, but a lot of them are modern and arranged in dioramas or are wearing recognisable costumes. This museum did actually have a tie to LEGO as well, as it was once the home of Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, one of the creators of the LEGO brick design.

As we’d not yet eaten, we headed over to the Billund Grill and had a Danish hotdog (that comes with ketchup, mustard, crispy onion, etc.), a shared bowl of fries, and bottles of soft drink which came to 195 DKK. The Grill visually looked like a traditional chip shop back home. It was nice to have another meal out, and for it to be warm enough to sit out eating it.

Back at the bungalow, we packed ready for the trip back to Copenhagen. It'd been a short excursion away from the capital, but a worthwhile one. We spent the evening watching Spirited Away on Netflix, a reminder of the stage play we'd seen a few months previous.