Bangkok Lego City

Lego is my brother's first love. Andre has since discovered Yu-Gi-Oh Cards and PSP, but there will always be a special place in his heart for these colourful interlocking plastic bricks from Denmark.

When Mommy found out the local chapter of the Thailand Lego User Group was organizing a special event at the Emporium, we had to make an outing to go see the exhibition.

In honour of the hosting site, someone built a replica of the Emporium.

We have not been to the actual Hua Lamphong Railway Station, but the Lego version was very impressive.

Ditto for the Democracy Monument, a really close replica as far as I could see on photos of the real historical site.

Surprise, surprise! This was my favourite, more like a jungle safari than the zoo.

And then there were the cute little Tuk-Tuk's, which in real life were more of a traffic menace that thronged the busy streets of Bangkok.

 Simple and cute, but more importantly, the little FamilyMart store brought back delicious memories of our family trip to Korea a few years back - long before I was born - where you could always count on a store around the corner to assuage those hunger pangs.

 I sure made my mark at the event... besides passing out Lego bricks to strangers, I also left a couple of hand and foot prints all over the stage!