Friday- We woke up and went to a character breakfast at the Paradise Pier Hotel. They met several other characters including stitch who did all kinds of funny things like "pick" daddy's nose and wipe it on Cal's head. They both really liked that, but Lainey wouldn't get near any characters, she was fine watching them, but didn't want to get near them or have them touch her at all. Kinda like she is with people :) Next was Universal Studios. We were in traffic for a long time before we got there and Ty & I were joking that we needed a cut in line pass for the traffic. When we got there we had front of the line passes waiting for us at the will call counter. As we were going into the park, there was a line to take your picture with the Simpson family, Cloey doesn't watch the show but loves seeing characters, so Ty took her up to see them. They all made a big deal over her and she loved it. Then it was over to the Simpsons ride. Cloey, Ty, and Emily went on it. I really had no interest in it. Lainey was asleep and Cal was traumatized and refusing all rides. It quickly became Cloey's favorite, in total she went on 4 or 5 times, and I even went on once with her, but Cal could never be convinced. I did make him go on the Shreck ride because otherwise he would not be able to do anything at universal. He was screaming and crying when we were waiting to get on, then when we were inside and he had the 3D glasses on I saw him laughing and grabbing at the candy that was "thrown" into the audience. but when we were leaving he said "actually I didn't like it" so that was the end of rides for Cal. After the Shreck ride, we got to meet Spongebob Squarepants. Cloey was so excited she started jumping up and down. Then Spongebob starting jumping too! He was really playing with Cloey. Right next to Spongebob was Curious George, so of course we stopped to say hi to him too. Then Spongebob came over as a special treat and tapped her on the shoulder. Pretty soon they were all jumping up and down. Cloey was definitely the star of the show to the large crowd of people who had gathered to see Spongebob and Curious George together. Mostly Emily, Ty & I traded off to go on the big rides and that was fun. I got to take Ty on Backdraft which was cool , but I have to say it was more impressive the last time I was on it, when I was about 9 years old. Cloey rode Simpsons one last time and I broke down and got her a Simpsons t-shirt since she loved the ride so much.

Saturday- we rushed to pack and get off to the airport. When we checked out the Cast members were very nice and wanted to make sure we had a magical time. The man who was helping us load our luggage gave each of the kids an 8x10 signed portrait of some of the characters. When we arrived at the airport our wish granter was there to meet us, and the "princess car" took us home.