Universal Studios is full of old movie, TV and cartoon nostalgia. There was a Betty Boop store and our favorite, the Universal Monsters store. The Simpsons Ride and all of Springfield was pretty neat. Our favorite ride of all, outside of HP was The Mummy. We rode that one 3 times. I spent lots of change on squished pennies and even purchased bracelet to display my squished penny collection.

We even met a friendly squirrel who was eating out of our hands.

We caught 2 parades. One day and one Christmas modeled after the Macy's day parade.

Can you tell that the balloons are my favorite?

This kicks off the first of 3 vacations in one month. The next few weeks are going to be insane for all of us. It was nice to get some quality family time together before we all split up on separate trips and then reunite again for another family weekend ski vacation.