Universal Studios

I took this at night when we were leaving.





This picture is funny because teh kids asked to pose with a picture ....and then they asked who it was..They didn't know who Beetle juice was...I remember being young when that movie came out..haha. Jeri kept obsessing about his teeth..yuck!




we picked a day to go to Universal and it was raining off and on......that happened to us the last time we went to universal studios. But it turned out to be a fabulous day none the less...not many people to fight with in lines..so we got to ride everything and see all the shows....and since it was raining they gave you discounts on lots of things. We bought these food passes you could eat at 8 different restaurants throughout the park all you wanted..it was already a good deal but then they gave us a discount on those as well...and also didn't make us pay for Clarissa.

So I think it cost us 100$ to eat whatever we wanted all day long...for our family--that is a good deal!
They also gave us free Hot Chocolate and you didn't have to wait in long lines to see the characters ..they had a wealth of characters walking throughout the park all day long...the kids loved this!
They got rid of the ride called " Back to the future" and changed it to a Simpsons circus theme with Krusty the clown...it was OK. The kids liked it. They changed everything to a Grinch Christmas theme and even on the tour bus--we took a ride through Whoville. It was fabulous. Members of whoville came thru to sing and put on a show for the shuttle bus and of course we went through jaws and all of the other normal attractions. Also for Christmas they set up tons of activities for the kids like a huge pool type area with "real" snow. Which we all thought quite funny considering we left a blizzard to go to California and they are making it so kids can build a snowman. They also have a huge room with a bunch of soft balls ( snowballs) with air guns and vacuum so you could suck up the foam balls and have snowball fights--it was quite fun and hard to drag our kids away for that. It was like being in whoville.


They had a special area that you could have your pictures taken with the Grinch..even a real trained dog named max..they didn't charge you for this..however the guy that was dressed like the Grinch was really good and teased the kids un-mercifully so it was hard getting a good picture of all the kids b/c they kept looking at him..but we all had fun with him.


They also had a lighting ceremony at night with a huge Christams tree in teh center of the kid type area and The Grinch and othr members of whoville came out to renact the part where teh grinch gets a heart and also sing Christmas Carols. I loved the whole scene and feeling at Universal studios.

During one of the shows they asked for Volunteers and Jeri was called up on stage. She had to turn a drum for a drum roll they were showing us how they put sound over teh top of movies...and Tinkerbell was causing some commotion and the drum sound helped relay that message. So Jeri was excited about being on stage.