Day 4

Today is bonding day for Nikolas and the grandparents. Mikayla and I are going to Universal Studios just the two of us. We’ve been there before and I know that there really isn’t anything for him in those parks since he can’t play on the playgrounds and isn’t interested in most of those characters.
I reminded mom how to use my camcorder and after breakfast we were on our way. Today mom, dad and Nikolas are going to explore GKTW and take some pictures or video while we’re gone.

We got to Universal about 11:30 and went straight back to the Mummy. It was the only thing I “had” to ride. It was the only ride I hadn’t ridden last time we were there so it was a MUST DO for me. Mikayla had pretty good memories of what she liked and didn’t like to after riding the Mummy and deciding she really did like it we made a loop and started riding.
We started the loop with ET, which is really cute, then went over to the Simpsons. I’m not a huge Simpsons fan but that is a virtual ride and it’s really fun. We went over to Men In Black, which Mikayla remembered and wanted to ride again the skipped a few and went to Jaws. HINT: If you take your kids on this be sure they know the story behind JAWS or let them watch it if they’re older. I took her on this ride and the man running it was actually from our home town. It was funny since the first thing he said was that “no one is from Shelbyville….” my thoughts exactly! When that was over we moved on to Disaster…we found it rather dull and don’t really recommend it. Moving on we did Twister again and then Shrek for the first time. Shrek is really fun and one of the rides we’d both recommend to everyone. One last ride…Jimmy Neutron…we forgot Terminator and never even went into Islands of Adventure. Like I said, we’ve been there before and there aren’t a lot of things we like to do since we aren’t big coaster people. We were done there by 3:00 and called to have mom order a late lunch from Katies Kitchen. We just went back (oops-there was confusion so we stopped at Taco Bell) and rested for dinner and Christmas at the Village.

Christmas and Santa were AMAZING!! They even created snow for the kids. Santa is willing to hold any child you are willing to put on his lap and that alone was nice since so many people are leary of holding our kids with all the equipment some of them have. We got some neat gifts and went outside to play in the snow and see all the decorations. We met up with Cathy and the kids and had a blast. She got some cute pictures of the kids playing together. It’s a really nice way to spend a special evening with your kids and we had a wonderful time.




-If you only go to 1 or 2 of the evening activities....make sure that Christmas and Pirates & Princesses are it. They are amazing and all kids are very included in everything. They were very theraputic for both of my kids. They never once felt like outsiders for a change. :)