Thursday morning we let the kids sleep in a bit.I figured we were all pretty exhausted from our 14 hour day at Magic Kingdom.I don't remember what time we headed out but I think it was somewhere around 10:00.We headed to Universal Studios.Of all the tickets we had recieved we knew this park would be a fairly quick visit.Paul and I would have loved it here but there was not that much that the kids would be interested in.Also we decided to fit in Islands of Adventure too since it was right next door.We could have split the parks up but we were leaving the next day and we wanted to spend some time shopping before our flight out.I had heard that it was a huge parking garage and they were not kidding.Fortunately we were able to park close to the entrance(or so I thought)We happily walked along and discovered that they had moving sidewalks.Score!!!! Until we reached the end of them and realized we had to walk quite a ways through the blazing sun to get to the actual entrance.This would no have been so bad except we had no stroller for Logan(until we got inside the parks)Logan was exhausted(as well as Paul and I)so we took turns carrying him.Finally we reached Universal.
The kids had fun fooling around in this cool mist.I would love to say it cooled us off but honestly I couldn't even feel it.Logan was running in circles around the big ball so fast that I could not get his picture.Funny , since five minutes before he was so exhausted that he just HAD to be carried.
We went inside and rented Logan's stroller.For some reason he started throwing a fit about then, I think it was because the double strollers ahd little steering wheels and he thought it wasn't fair that he didn't have one.Paul was getting a bit irritated with him.I can't say I blame him because we were all so hot and we were getting really tired.I talked to Paul a bit and made him laugh about something and then all was well.I have to say that it is difficult to take a trip and cram this much stuff in, without wanting to disown your family at some point.Through the whole vacation we all did really well with this and this was really a small moment of yuck.
We decided to go see the Shrek 4-D show.The neat thing about Universal is with the guest assistance pass they actually call a CM and they give you a personal escort to where you need to go(at the rides and shows).Sometimes this took a few minutes but we didn't mind.It was fun chatting with the CM's and they were all very nice.A few gave stickers to the kids.( I think a few at the Disney parks did this too)We went into the Que are for the Shrek show and it was really quite funny.I love how when you are waiting for the show you get all this extra entertainment.I didn't take too many pictures but I thought it was pretty funny when they had the gingerbread man in the "dungeoun cam" and he was telling us to run away.He looks pretty mad in this picture.Probably because he just escaped being tortured.
We went into the show and sat in regular theatre type seats.They gave us 4-D glasses and enjoyed the show.It was pretty neat but I have to say for the younger crowd it might be a bit too intense.It is REALLY loud and they have some scary graveyard scenes.It is pretty funny though and there is one part where Donkey sneezes and they spray water on you.Gross but funny.We exited the show to the area where Shrek does his meet and greet. He wasn't there and I was kind of bummed since I knew we didn't have a lot of time at this park.We moved on to the Jimmy Neutron ride.It is a 3-D show but the seats move.You feel like you are on a rocket ship blasting through all these Nickelodeon shows like spongebob and such.This was a cute ride but it left me feeling like I wanted to vomit.This was the only ride we went on, the entire trip, that made me sick.This ride exits into a gift shop (suprise , suprise!) The good thing was it also had a meet and greet for Spongebob.He wasn't there yet but a CM told me he would be out in five minutes.We jumped in line since there were only like two people in front of us.Spongebob came out and we waited a very short time for our turn.Just as we were about to see him a CM from the other side yelled out "wait , we have Wish family".The CM near us spotted Hannah's button at the same time and I started to laugh.She yelled back, "so do I !". I told her the other family could go first we didn't mind waiting and she seemed relieved.I guess she thought we might try to throw down right there!
.Shortly after it was our turn.I have a love /hate relationship with Spongebob.I hate that he is rediculous and does not teach anything and isn't always the best show for kids to watch(although there are a lot of worse shows that we ban in our house)BUT the kids love him.Hannah seriously is not interested in tv much.She prefers to watch her disney movies over and over.This is one of the only shows that she will watch and she laughs her head off every time.I even find myself laughing along with it often.Logan thinks he is pretty funny too and even wanted to be in on this picture.Notice he did not want to stand right next to him though!
We had been given a coupon at GKTW for one free photo so we chose this one.For some reason we got our wires crossed and walked out without it.Paul thought we had to pick it up later at exit somewhere.Later in the day I got nervous about not knowing where to pick it up and went back to ask.The CM was like There you are, you forgot your picture!Fortunately he saved it for us.
I told Paul that we should try to see if Shrek was out yet and we went right over to the area.SCORE! Shrek, Fiona and Donkey were out.They took Hannah right to the front of the line.Donkey was hilarious.I swear he sounded just like Eddie Murphy from the movie.He was saying some really funny stuff and calling Hannah "Hannah Banana" and "Hannah Montana".
After this it was lunch time and we didn't and to spend a long time looking for somewhere to eat.Fortunately we found the Monsters Cafe and ducked into the cool air conditioning.It was modeled aftet the old time movie monsters like the mummy and the creature from the black lagoon.The kids had no clue what they were looking at but Paul and I found it amusing.
Before I forget I want to point out that Hannah was wearing the adorable mickey print shirt made by Molly (Daisylou). Logan had on disney fab five pirate outfit made by Anna(disneymommyof2)We LOVE both outfits.The pirate outfit is one of Logan's favorites and he wears it OFTEN now that we are home.
After lunch we decided we better head over to Islands of Adventure since we wanted to make it back in time for dinner at GKTW.It was "Christmas" at the village that evening and we wanted to spend a little time there.
To be continued:
Liberty Tree Tavern is one of our favorites too.
That is really disgusting. I hope it didn't upset him too much.
When I was growing up, for some reason NO SPITTING was my mother's #1 rule--always, so spitting really mortifies me! I love your Splash Mountain photos and your little bit of Magic with Goofy in the window!
and 
. I havent ever seen Wishes and I vaguely remember Spectromagic from when I was like 8 or 9? I am really looking forward to finally seeing it in Feb! 
