Day 18: Nippy Cain and the Hamster Labyrinth of DOOM™...

Today I had to stay at home with Ewan who was feeling poorly, as Siegrid had to drive across Austria to where Denis had an appointment. It's not as easy to get Ewan enthuasiastic about a project as Denis, and he was feeling pretty rotten, so I felt we needed something special to do to alleviate those sick day blues. That special something was the "Hamster Labyrinth of DOOM™".

The Hamster Labyrinth of DOOM™

Built using every single surviving piece of Lego Duplo that we own, this magnificent labyrinth was designed to give Ewan's hamster Nippy a nice change of scenery. Nippy's task was to enter the maze through the white door (bottom right), and make her way to the air traffic control tower (transparent part under the blue crane arm). It took quite a while to get the sides high enough so that Nippy couldn't cheat, but our engineering triumphed!!

An engineer, today.

 We then had to wait several hours for the furbag to wake up, which gave Siegrid & Denis enough time to make it back home for the exciting finale.

The wee beastie enters the arena

Nippy proved to be a hamster of excellent intelligence, trying every possible exit route before making her way through the various perils to snatch the treasure from the very heart of the Hamster Labyrinth of DOOM™.

victori spolia: To the victor the spoils

Back to work tomorrow, we don't have any Lego to play with there :(

p.s. for all you photo geeks, all today's photos SOOC, with minor cropping to the last two...