Weather and UVA move-in day snuck up on Christina and I and killed our Saturday plans to go visit Charlottesville.  As much fun as it would be to bump shoulders with 15,000 Wahoos moving back into C-Ville, we decided to take a raincheck.  While we were waiting for coffee, Christina overheard a group say they were going to a Lego convention that day.   We’d never heard of such a thing and a quick search turned up BrickFair 2009 at Tysons Corner.  On a whim, we dropped in to see what it was all about.

As Christina described it, it was a cross between adults, kids, foreigners, and crazies and it was all awesome.  The stuff they can do with Legos these days is simply amazing.  In addition, the Lego Mindstorms programmable robotics takes it up another notch.  From your basic space, pirate, Harry Potter, alien, and police Legos taken to a massive scale, working Lego factories made of Legos, recreated historic monuments, running trains, and perpetual motion machines, the BrickFair impressed. Not a bad way to spend an hour or two on a Saturday afternoon.

I posted some pictures in my BrickFair 2009 gallery.