lvcourtneyy
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- Nov 24, 2012
Good Thing the Ponchos are in the Car!
At 10:20 AM, we were pulling up to the parking booths at Universal.
Our plan was to go to the park for a few hours and then take a break before the event later. I assumed that if you paid for parking once, it would be good to leave and come back again but we wanted to make sure so Kim asked the TM in the booth. She said if we keep our receipt, we'll have no problem. Then she said well, if you lose your receipt... and the way she said it, we thought she was going to give us some tip...you'll have to pay again. We laughed about that for a while.
We decided we didn't want to carry big bags with us so despite the fact that it was gloomy and overcast, we left the ponchos in the car.
These signs telling you to remember where you parked are the smartest.
Kimberly took this beautiful boomerang on the moving walkway .
We made it!
We decided to start in Islands of Adventure because we wanted to go see Grinchmas!
It was 10:54 by the time we were entering the park and of course, the downpour started. Good thing we left our ponchos in the car .
We ran into the nearest store to seek cover.
We instantly fell in love with all of the Christmas decorations.
Look at this Hogwarts stocking!
I fell in love with this Who Christmas village for sale.
We waited in line to pick up maps for the Holiday Tree Hunt. This was a free scavenger hunt Universal had through both parks and Citiwalk to find and collect a stamp for different Christmas tree and once you got them all, you could turn it in for an ornament. Sadly, we never finished because we planned to go back on our last day for our last 2 stamps but never did.
The other half of the store had all of the Grinch merch you could dream of.
Kim was really tempted to buy this Grinch loungefly.
I loved the Max ornaments.
It was still raining really hard but the store directly across the way had a stamp location so we decided to make a run for it.
We found our first Tree Hunt tree (surprisingly none of the ones in the other store counted lol)
Each tree location had a stand where you could purchase one of the ornaments featured on the tree.
We had to go to the register counter to get our stamp which we felt bad about because it was pretty busy but they were very accommodating for people to just come up to the side and get their stamp quickly.
There was also a smaller, adorable Harry Potter themed tree in this store.
I just the Sorting Hat tree topper.
At 10:20 AM, we were pulling up to the parking booths at Universal.
Our plan was to go to the park for a few hours and then take a break before the event later. I assumed that if you paid for parking once, it would be good to leave and come back again but we wanted to make sure so Kim asked the TM in the booth. She said if we keep our receipt, we'll have no problem. Then she said well, if you lose your receipt... and the way she said it, we thought she was going to give us some tip...you'll have to pay again. We laughed about that for a while.
We decided we didn't want to carry big bags with us so despite the fact that it was gloomy and overcast, we left the ponchos in the car.
These signs telling you to remember where you parked are the smartest.
Kimberly took this beautiful boomerang on the moving walkway .
We made it!
We decided to start in Islands of Adventure because we wanted to go see Grinchmas!
It was 10:54 by the time we were entering the park and of course, the downpour started. Good thing we left our ponchos in the car .
We ran into the nearest store to seek cover.
We instantly fell in love with all of the Christmas decorations.
Look at this Hogwarts stocking!
I fell in love with this Who Christmas village for sale.
We waited in line to pick up maps for the Holiday Tree Hunt. This was a free scavenger hunt Universal had through both parks and Citiwalk to find and collect a stamp for different Christmas tree and once you got them all, you could turn it in for an ornament. Sadly, we never finished because we planned to go back on our last day for our last 2 stamps but never did.
The other half of the store had all of the Grinch merch you could dream of.
Kim was really tempted to buy this Grinch loungefly.
I loved the Max ornaments.
It was still raining really hard but the store directly across the way had a stamp location so we decided to make a run for it.
We found our first Tree Hunt tree (surprisingly none of the ones in the other store counted lol)
Each tree location had a stand where you could purchase one of the ornaments featured on the tree.
We had to go to the register counter to get our stamp which we felt bad about because it was pretty busy but they were very accommodating for people to just come up to the side and get their stamp quickly.
There was also a smaller, adorable Harry Potter themed tree in this store.
I just the Sorting Hat tree topper.