Universal has 2 parks. Universal Studios and "Islands of Adventures". We went to the studios park first. There we saw the 4D Shrek show which was awesome! and we also saw a Barney show live. Dillon had a lot of fun at the Barney show, and it was exciting for him as big of a Barney fanatic as he has always been.
After the show, they came to us and told us that Barney wanted to meet us so we stuck around, and Barney spent time with just our family. Dillon was SO excited, and such a wonderful memory for him.

Univeral was just as good, if not better about making Dillon feel like the single most important person on the earth and made such wonderful memories for him as well.
At Islands of Adventure, the kids got to ride rides, and see other characters such as the super heros that they didn't get to see at the other park. We were in a candy store, when Spider Man spotted Dillon and came right over to us and started talking and playing with Dillon. He spent so much time with Dillon. Dillon was in awe and just mezzmerized by Spider Man. It was very neat. Spider Man then wheeled Dillon over in his wheelchair to a store, where he took him shopping and bought him a Tshirt. He went above and beyond any expectation we would have had meeting a character and making special memory for him. This was probably the best part of the trip and the most special of memories that Dillon had. It was an incredible experience. Spider Man also went and got the other super heros, and we went behind a building with a privacy fence, where our family got to spend about a half hour of time with all the super heros. It was SO cool and the kids were so excited.

Universal had a lot of fun rides. The kids had a great time. A lot of the rides were a height restriction and Dillon couldn't ride but he was ok with it, and the rides he could ride, such as the flying unicorn roller coaster, he just LOVED!
The park was split into sections, one of the sections being Suess Landing. They had a lot of rides for smaller kids and it was all the Cat in the Hat rides.
Connor really liked the Dinasauer ride in Juarrasic park section. I went on that with him the second time they went on and I didn't like the 85 Ft drop so much, but it was fun.. LOL

We only had one day passes to Universal, but Dillon and the rest of us liked the park so much, Give the Kids the World ended up giving us second day passes. So, we went to visit again on the last day we were there. It was a great time!

There, we saw a show in the "tree of life" called "It's tough to be a bug". It was a 3D show that was pretty cool.
Then we went to see "Tarzan Rocks". There, they made the kids a part of the show by having them stand at the front where they were supposed to hit their chest and make a Tarzan show, but they kind of chickened out and just giggled instead.. LOL. It was neat that they were made a part of the show though, and it was a very cool show to see. Afterwards, they were taken behind stage, where they got to meet Tarzan and the rest of the cast.

The next show we saw was "Lion King". Again, the kids were made a part of the show! The cast came to get the kids, and took them around stage in their "parade" where they sang songs from the Lion King, and then they took Dillon up by Timon where Timon told Dillon he was the best in the show! It was very cool!

Next, we did the african safari. That was pretty neat to be up close to all the animals. The experience was neat and worth doing.

Before heading out, we ate at the Rainforest Cafe, and then headed back to Disney's Magic Kingdom for the rest of the day. We stayed once again for the fireworks show and then headed to see Downtown Disney before going back to the house for the night.
I wanted to go there, to see the "World of Disney" store. A friend I used to work with at the Disney store in Omaha, now manages that store, so it was neat to see her again and to see her HUGE store. I have never seen a Disney store so big!
We did some shopping and the kids were beat, so we headed back to get some sleep

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