Christmas at Universal

Florida 2011, Day 11, part 2

After the Animal Actors show we decided to go on E.T. because wait time was only ten minutes:

We went into E.T.’s little shop afterwards to explore as well:

After the excitement of our first and only ride of the day we headed back towards Beetlejuices graveyard Revue taking pics along the way:

While we were waiting outside the Beetlejuice theatre there was Universal staff going around asking guests that looked over 18 if they wanted to take part in the parade that was going to be happening that evening. We declined as we wanted to see the actual parade not be in it since we only had one day to see it. Anyways soon after Beetlejuice’s show started. It’s kind of a rock/pop music show with lots of monsters:

After Beetlejuice we decided to grab a spot for the parade. I left mother minding the spot for the parade and I went to get some treats:

one of each please:

I came back with two chocolate spores for us:

Then soon enough it was time for Christmas to start in Universal Studios in the form of the Macy’s holiday parade:

The parade comes out goes down one street to the Christmas tree… Then Santa gets off the float and lights the tree... We did not know this so we missed that part but the parade then circles around and comes back up and goes in the same gates it comes out. It was a good parade not Disney but still good even though we did encounter another rudey at this parade. We had been waiting maybe an hour or so at our spot because there was nothing else we wanted to do in Universal anyway. So parade comes and we’re at front, ten mins before the parade starts a very mouthy Momma and her about 8 year old son come up behind the crowd and her attitude stank she stood behind me trying to push him in front and when that failed she started shouting behind me about how appalling it was for adults to be stood at the front for a parade in a child’s amusement park that children should be given first priority for a spot at the front so they can see the parade. I completely ignored her but had she not have had such a rubbish attitude I probably would have asked the child if he wanted to stand in front of me it was just her rubbish attitude that made me not want to bother!

Anyways after the parade we strolled around again looking at the floats around the park:

We headed down towards the Christmas market and the now lit up Christmas tree:

In the market there was food, toys, games, glass blowing, funny signs one was for a guard dog and read “I can get to the fence in 3 seconds can you?” There were also a lot of Christmas decorations:

Next we went over to the stage area for The Mannheim Steamroller.

They were good but we didn’t stay very long only a couple of songs and then we decided to head towards the exit. We went back out to Citywalk and decided to go to the cinema. We went to see The Muppets. It wasn’t going to be out in Ireland until February so I was delighted to be able to see it in December and these dudes were in the cinema:

After that we went back to the hotel after another fun filled day.