Spooky Visit To Universal Studios

In honour of Halloween, I thought I’d share the most spooky moments from our visit at Universal studios on the Saturday before last. The entire studio was decorated for Halloween—zombies everywhere!

I’m an old-fashioned Halloween girl—I like spooky (witches, ghosts, supernatural), not gory (bloody corpses, violence). Universal was a little too gory for me. We’d been warned not to take the kids into a few exhibits. However…after a long and scorching hot day at the studio we were all ready to head home except Pip. She begged us to take her on one more ride. We were nearly exiting the gates when we passed the Haunted House Maze. I asked her if that would suffice. She was game. I asked the attendant if it was suitable for children. He said he didn’t recommend it but they were allowed through as long as they walked. He said many creatures would be jumping out and frightening us along our journey. I warned Pip and asked her if she would be all right with that. She assured me she was up for the maze. Peter took one of her hands and I the other. I again reiterated that there would be human adults in Halloween costumes jumping out at us to frighten us…

Parent Fail!

One of those parenting moments you wish you could take back…bad parents of the year award nominations for us…

It was so gory. I told PIp to close her eyes and we’d lead her through the maze. She did–thank-G!

I was too in mother mode to be frightened myself; but, for those of you who’ve watched Ellen Degeneres’ video of her staff in the Universal maze, it was the same thing only indoors—as it was in daylight when we toured the park.

I enjoyed the back studio tour at Universal. I love old Hollywood lore. Though, the rides are definitely more edgy and shock/action than Disney. If Disney were like a holiday season it would be Christmas. Whereas, Universal is all Halloween.

The most fun thing that happened in the studio, was a complete surprise!

Peter was walking back from lunch with Tabs and Pip (carrying three large dessert cookies for later). Suddenly, they noticed a van pull up beside them on the street and follow them—the Mystery Machine! All at once it stopped and Shaggy jumped out. He approached Peter and insisted Peter hand over the cookies—Shaggy offered to trade his milkshake for them. Peter argued with Shaggy for awhile until Shaggy finally stole the cookies. At that moment, Daphne exited the van and insisited Shaggy return the cookies to Peter.

That is the story behind how my crew met Scooby and the gang at Universal Studios. The girls found the whole experience to be so much fun. They’ve all been huge Scooby fans since toddlerhood.

I hope you enjoy the rest of  the micro tour of Universal Studios backlot with us…