So we went to Universal Studios again this week, this time with my mom and my sis, who’s back from Melbourne for her hols. Holidays are when family makes time for each other and there’s no better way than to soak up a bit of the Christmas magic in a theme park. You get to be busy all year but come December, it’s time to hit the brakes and do the quality time with the people that are important to you. Do the parties and the gatherings and coffees before the new year comes around.

At least, that’s how we roll.

On to the peek-tures. The characters were all pimped out in their festive gear, even though it was 35 degrees out. Also, I have a thing for collecting pictures with mascots. Some people collect stamps, I collect pictures with characters. Stop judging me.

Then when you run out of characters, make up your own.

This is my mom on a super grandma carousel, well, because she’s one. We even managed to get her to try The Mummy ride as a single rider, no less. She got real queasy after and claims I conned her into it but all I said was “it goes round and round, not that scary” verbatim. To be fair, I didn’t remember it to be quite so scary but then again, the last time I went on, my eyes were closed for most of the ride.

If you’re looking for a nice place to take pictures, there’s this street next to Spielberg’s show at New York. Love it.

You know what they say, family time is good for the soul and I wholeheartedly concur.

This is turning out to be one of the best Decembers ever and there’s still almost three weeks of it left. That’s like waking up at thinking it’s 6am when it’s actually 1.45am and realizing that you’ve still got another 5 solid hours of blissful sleep. Somehow, you always end up making the most of it, which is exactly what I plan to do.