 Hey friends tonight We are hanging out at the winter Orlando informer meet-up here at Universal Studios Orlando This is one of my favorite events because all of the food and beverage offerings are included in your admission price So you can drink as many butter beers and eat as many pretzels as you like and then there's also almost no weights for any Attraction so we're gonna ride some rides eat some food and have a beautiful Orlando informer kind of night Anyhoo's let's go do this And I'm very excited because I'm bringing my mom and sister. They are here We're going to the Orlando informer meet-up first time being at Universal Studios for my mom I am so excited to show you maybe we might get to see the Grinch and I like I said all the food We can enjoy it's gonna be a fun time. I Am so excited that I'm able to bring my mom to Universal Studios for the first time I always wanted to come here growing up But we couldn't afford it and now I get the opportunity to actually bring my mom to enjoy it for the first time And I love that and the Orlando informer meet-up is the perfect setting because I don't know how many rides She can ride I mean we're gonna see what she can ride But she gets to enjoy all of the benefits and activities of the meet-up and it's kind of worth it Like I said, it's the best deal out there We are all checked in and tonight's event goes from 7 p.m. till 12 30 but with your ticket you get into the park as early as 5 o'clock and Honestly, I always tell people this is the best bang for your buck if you ever plan on visiting Universal Studios Orlando because you really get the most out of it and it pays for itself. I Did a little bit of the math for you guys and if you registered for the Orlando informer meet-up for two nights It would cost you just around $350 and if I bought just two tickets to Universal Studios Orlando and add at the express pass to it It would cost me almost seven hundred dollars And that is such a huge difference and plus you're getting free food and beverages included in that So it's definitely worth it if you plan on making a vacation down there The Orlando informer meet-up is multiple times a year So it has different seasons and I love coming to the winter one because you get all of the Universal's holiday like festivities you get to see the holiday parade featuring Macy's and then also you get to meet the Grinch and I think the next one is scheduled February 3rd and 4th and tickets are still available So if you guys are interested I'll put a link in the description so you can check it out I think we're gonna start the day by heading into Universal Studios Florida side because my mom wants to catch the Macy's parade So I'm hoping that we are going to be able to it starts at five o'clock, but the parade starts at 5 30 So I think we have enough time to find a good spot First time on a red carpet here mom fancy they're rolling out the red carpet red carpet treatment And I'm also excited to have my mom try all the like foods from harry potter and butter beer for the first time And see what she thinks you know what I mean? I'm very excited like I love doing things I love doing first time things with people. I like being like a little tour guide Look at this mom. We got a perfect spot for you, right? The parade's gonna come down here and then it's gonna go down this way And then like I said, I think we're gonna try to back out and make our way over to islands of adventure So we're honestly in the best spot Like I said, I Enjoy coming to the winter meet-up because you get to do all of the holiday festivities And since it's my mom's first time coming I want to try to show her everything So we're gonna catch the Macy's parade and then we're gonna try to leave and then head over to island So we can get the Grinchmas show before the event actually starts We get really chilly and windy out so good luck to the balloon holders there because they're probably holding on for dear life Darryl mom The parade was a lot of fun. I think my mom really enjoyed it I caught her waving and saying Merry Christmas a couple of times Now we're gonna make our way over to islands of adventure try to catch Grinchmas Now I'm not putting a lot of this stuff in because the event hasn't even begun yet Like that's do you know what I mean? These are the things I just wanted to show my mom But we're gonna get into like the food and the rides Probably as soon as we get done with the Grinchmas because by that time I think it should start Now the adventure begins off to Grinchmas Grinchmas How did you like the parade? Did you like the parade? I love the parade. Yeah And it was so different because I've never seen those floats before y'all the Macy's. Yeah, the floats are fun Incredible how they handled that I know it's very windy out. It's cold. We might need to get sweaters. Yes And we have made it over to Grinchmas They say to be uh at the show at least a half an hour early So we're about 45 minutes early and I was thinking about maybe trying to ride the cat in the hat You want to ride the cat in the hat mom? I think that's a good idea. All right, let's do the cat in the hat We didn't make it to cat in the hat in time because we had to pull inside and get some sweaters A bunch of pennsylvania folk here saying it's cold in florida. How cold was it when you guys left this morning? 21 degrees and they're cold. They're cold now. I feel the same way. I say it all the time But I think we can say we are ready for Grinchmas. Look at this and now you got a little Grinch guy too Right on my shoulder. Yeah Merry Grinchmas It goes there's a magnet and it sticks under your shirt. We'll have to put it on and show you And now he just stays there Perfect. All right, let's go watch the show I've been trying to think of rides I think my mom could ride and I think cat in the hat would be one et maybe What do we say? Jimmy Fallon and Despicable Me? So a couple of them and I can't wait for the event to start so we can do that eat some food and try butterbeer All right, mom time to hear the how the Grinch stole Christmas Merry Grinchmas We got the perfect seat because we are front and center For max and the Grinch they both come out right there, but I'm so excited This is such a beautiful show Stories, stories, stories I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming But huh Grinch got a wonderful Awful idea. I know just what to do. Come on max And he left me in a scrotum and he made a quick Santa Claus hat and a coat And he chuckled and clocked what a great Grinchy trick with this coat and this hat I'll look just like snake me Speaking of rides What'd you think of the show mom? I loved it. Was it? It's so good It is it's honestly just such a well like put together production. Oh boy Yep, give her some open room and she'll leave us behind look at her Oh, no holy moly look at her go. Yeah It's such an incredible show. I loved it so much and I'm so happy I got to share it with my mom I kept peeking back at her and she was smiling ear to ear And it was great and then she got so happy when the snow came down and the Grinch I loved it so much and now I think the Meadlepast started it's eight o'clock. We time that perfectly And we can start getting some food and riding some rides. I'm I'm so pumped. I'm starving And since we're still in soos landing I think we'll head over to Circus McGurkis and get ourselves a roast beef sandwich Since that's on the menu tonight, and I'm so excited. They also have the pizza tots here too Which are really really amazing I just realized that the food doesn't start till nine o'clock tonight. So We're a little bit early to Circus McGurkis, but maybe we'll go ride some rides I think we're gonna go ride this soos trolley train. That's a ride my mom can ride. Look at it I think she'll like that a lot actually Unfortunately, I can't film on the rides, but it is a really fun ride And I'll let you know whether or not my mom likes it or not. I'm pretty sure she is because it's basically the people mover of universal studios But here comes our trusty form of transportation now Look at these Grinchmas people here both of you You got your magic because of your the your spirit jerseys Please All right, mom you've done the soos trolley train. What did you think did you like that? Yeah, it's fun. Now now we're gonna do the cat and the hat five minute wait So we didn't wait for any of them. There's no weights at all. Yeah, right on fancy. Look at right on After we do cat and the hat I think me and bonbon are gonna go ride the Hulk because I mean that well that's a ride my mom Can't ride but it's something that my sister has never wrote Do you know who the cat and the hat is ma? Look at this is not anybody in line. I mean there's normally not anyone in line for the cat and the hat anyway But it's even special because I'm riding it with you guys You know what's funny about this ride they never show the parents faces I Don't know why they do that, but it's really interesting. Oh, there goes the cat and the hat right there All right, mom. What'd you think of the cat and the hat? I loved it. See I think you're loving universal, aren't you? So far. Yeah, you're really loving it. Yeah As we're making our way over to the Hulk we notice the Cinnabon is already open for the uh, Orlando Informer meetup Are you ready? We're gonna get some center of the roll Maybe some hot cocoa too. You want some hot cocoa? Oh, that sounds good It's so awesome. You just walk up and just ask and they give it to you You don't pay for it or anything and it just opened up and they're already at 72 dollars 72 dollars The center of the roll just looks so amazing and like I said, you can have as many Of these as you want. I can eat this right now and just go grab another one They'll just give it to you now You don't want to do that My biggest tip for their Orlando Informer meetup is don't like eat all the food try to share it Pick at it and then try quantity and like, you know go around and like try a bunch of different stuff Don't eat a bunch and you know get sick I'd love the center of the rolls all look at that I definitely have to say I think I like the little sinna. What do they call sinna sweeties? I like the sinna sweeties better than the center of the roll. I wasn't expecting it, but they're so light and fluffy and airy Very good and they're hot Not a bad way to start off the night with some cinnamon rolls And then me and bonnie ended up riding the Hulk and she says it's one of her all-time favorite roller coasters You love it bon, right? Is Hulk better than Hagrid's though? I don't know. Yeah, you don't know She wrote she wrote Hagrid's but she didn't ride Velocico, so so we're gonna do that tonight too But I do love Hulk. It was so much fun and it was no wait Oh, yeah, there's tons there's more than two Oh, yeah, they're two different types. Yeah Stopped and grabbed some water and take a look at this 247 dollars already 247 dollars. Thank you. Oh and another bottle of water too Isn't it so nice and empty in here now? Look at it. You can just drive around And we got to keep our eyes peeled for the Grinch. He's actually hanging out here somewhere. He's out and about somewhere This is definitely one of my go-to stops here the roast beast the pizza tots everything Double fist in it on the chicken Caesar salad Can I get a slice of pepperoni? Thank you. Oh and pizza tots, please. Yes. Oh and a roast beast. Yes Oh also some apple pie. I don't know how i'm gonna What's happening? What's happening here? Where there's a will there's a way It still just blows my mind when you just walk into like somewhere and you just like I'll have one of everything Please and just take take take and look at this roast beast right here. Look at this That's a roll brisket meatloaf onions the works And these pizza tots are so good little sausage little pepperoni. Look at that Now I do have to point out that some of this food is theme park food like the pizza and still theme park pizza So it's not going to be the best pizza in the world, but a lot of it is good food I mean we have wings fish and chips bread pudding Shepherd's pie roast beast sandwiches the dagwood sandwich lots of really cool like Like non novelty food that I cannot wait to show you My mom's like so excited look at her she's like The Grinch came in for like two seconds and then they told him he has to leave and he was real upset But we'll catch him my goal is my mom to meet the Grinch and just have a conversation That's all I want in life. I want my mom to talk to the Grinch We're done eating here. We're in hot pursuit of the Grinch. My mom's like I'm done She stopped eating the apple pie and everything It looks like the Grinch is uh, maybe taking a break So we'll come back this way because we're going to use the walkway from Grinch miss over to universal studios Now I want to head to Hogsmeade and I think it's time for my mom to experience the world of Butterbeer Oh, there it is mom straight ahead Hogsmeade Everybody gets excited to go to Hogsmeade. My mom doesn't even know what Hogsmeade is But I think you'll like it. Maybe you'll meet maybe your experience today will help you Uh go out and watch Harry Potter or read the books. You never know It's pretty magical Thank you Cheers to Butterbeer first time Here we go. Hope you get a Butterbeer mustache Good right Bonnie's team frozen that's crazy, but you haven't had hot either Right See I'm gonna tell you my ranking. I am hot Butterbeer number one cold Butterbeer two and then frozen three Just not my thing This guy delivering hot Butterbeer out here. This is the greatest thing. I think I've ever seen right there All right now the hot Butterbeer cheers Isn't that amazing It's always amazing when they're just handing out hot Butterbeer like that Just for everyone that's waiting in line because usually if you come to three room six This is gonna be one of the longest waits the whole entire night. Look at I don't even know. I look so weird in this Never mind Got ourselves some shepherd's pie. Hand me one of them fish and chips there. Would you now? Well, thank you good sir Excellent Oh Some pumpkin juice, thank you Is this parasite or have some parasite or two Look at this balancing act that my mom's got going on right now Oh Got ourselves a little shepherd pie right here. There we go. What's your think mom? What's your review? Yeah, shepherd's pie Pumpkin juice She likes the pumpkin juice Bonnie doesn't like it all. She likes the chips Bonnie's like I like the chips Seems like everyone liked three broomsticks except for Bonnie and now it's time to show mom The castle and then I think me and bonbon are gonna ride Velosa Coaster and I don't know we might skip Jurassic park and superhero island And maybe backtrack and make our way back over to Seuss landing and then over to universal side She said oh my goodness to this snowman I thought she was looking at the castle I thought she was like, oh my goodness. I need that for my yard That is so funny Who do you think's got the better castle mom disney or this castle here or hogging Then Cinderella castle Wow I'm shocked right look at Bonnie. She was too stunned to speak Now we're gonna go from harry potter to Jurassic park My mom said is this the way Look at this Velosa coaster 20 minutes bonbons first time. Are you excited? Yes. What did you think of Velosa coaster? I think that might be number one. Yeah. It was pretty it was intense. I love Velosa coaster. Mom, what did you think of Velosa coaster? Now we're gonna make our way back through Seuss landing and Over to universal. Hopefully we have a Grinch encounter Keep our eyes peeled You're a mean one Mr. Grinch Looks like we missed them. Oh man. Mean green ones know where to be found Can't even believe it I'm really loving how there's almost nobody in the parks right now It's really beautiful just to be able to walk around and be able to show my mom universal studio side for the first time when there's no crowds Look at this. We're about to head to new york mom the streets of new york new york Thank you If you've seen any of my other orlando and former meetup videos, you know, i'm in love with the bread pudding At finnigan's so we have to stop and get some and also see what else they have on the menu here They mixed it up a little bit this year Look at this really dull holy moly It's really empty here tonight Nobody's hanging out by the tree the performers are just dancing around there. It looks like mommy is just a walk on Oh, and there's something to get some performers over here There it is the love of my life The finnigan's bread pudding look at this I'm gonna grab myself a nice little scoops in a scoop of bread pudding And then extra whiskey sauce were you whiskers whiskey sauce me here bond give me the best whiskey pour you can look at that Much too good On top of the bread pudding it looks like they have buffalo mac and cheese pierogies and mummy sliders with jackfruit Here are the jackfruit sliders and then the buffalo mac and cheese That is looking good and the pierogies a lot of stuff I'm gonna probably pass on some of this one. I'm sure bomba. I don't get some I get so excited to get this bread pudding every single year It's not so much the bread pudding It's the whiskey sauce that does it for me and I always get extra How's that mac and cheese good? What kind of pierogi is it? Yeah, but is it potato? Is there different types of pierogies? Are there different types of pierogies? Calling it quits on finnigans, but look the blues brothers are out right now I feel like we're getting a lot accomplished. We rode one two three four Four five rides. Yeah. Yeah five rides got to eat at many different places got to watch the Grinch risk got to do the parade And I mean the event still goes on till 1 30 in the morning. So it's got a while yet. Look at this There she goes I Sometimes I just want to see where my mom's actually gonna go to there. She is I've been holding off on actually getting a lot of food because I know that there's a new taco stand that I really want to try And it's over by La Bamba and that's new this year because the taco stand the taco truck in simpsons is so popular They had to add another one because the lines were always so long So I think we're gonna head over there next then maybe ride transformers and maybe call it a night It's getting a little bit cold out for my mom. She's like With the snow she enjoyed inside the grinch miss the snow pier in new york. She was like, please no more Isn't this so pretty like the the new york city mom look at like the alleyways And wall greens drugs I'm pretty sure frankenstein. Oh the bride of frankenstein and frankenstein are over there So we're gonna head over there. See if we can get a photo together Mom I'm putting you on the spot. You can't be afraid of the bride of frankenstein and frankenstein What they're nice they're not even monsters Can't we not have a family photo together? She won't come really look it Hi, how are you? Please do yes Two of my favorite people. Hi. How are you my mom over there? It doesn't want to come up and say hi because she's afraid and I don't understand why she's Oh my lord That was the best thing ever I feel like She's she's gone gone she's gone gone She really really is gone. Oh my lord Wow, well, we'll get a picture bud That was so funny. I cannot even believe my mom flew off like that one frankenstein started chasing her and like It was really good. She is She's like she is so gone I'm pretty sure she's all the way up there, but I want to get tacos at la bomba I don't know what to do. La bomba is right there. That's the new taco spot Come get some tacos You This way We're going to get tacos this way Mom will not be joining us for some tacos. She has given up frankenstein frankenstein's monster basically Have ruined the taco experience from my mom. Well, that's okay. Yeah But I'm excited. This is a brand new eater eat spot here for the Orlando informer meetup And I'm all about tacos Look at this. We got pulled Chicken tacos. We've got the sweet potato the beef and they got a little build a taco section here Mangle lime. Look at that. That's a good stuff salsa guacamole all of it All right, let's get into these tacos a little bit. I'm very excited I feel like like I said, I think we got a lot done tonight But the highlight has got to be frankenstein's monster and my mom. She's literally shaking in her boots over there It's so funny. She's gonna look at she's so paranoid Mmm the beef oh so good I had to get all of them to try each one. I mean they're very small like, you know Five-inch tortillas, but look at this sweet potato one Here we go. Wow I can't tell you which one I like more But I'm gonna go in for the chicken now. They're all so good and I love the peppers in them There we go chicken The sweet potato one is the one that I want. It's the best. Also, look at mom over there You want high alert? He's on the other side of the building. He's not gonna come running through mel's to get you Even though mel sometimes turns into mel's die in instead of drive in My mom is super afraid we have to cut through mel's drive in To avoid frankenstein's monster. Go go go go go go. He doesn't see you mom right right right Look at that didn't even see you there. You're good. You're in the clear You're in the clear Why is she driving so fast? You're in the clear And with that, I think we are done here tonight. It was a fun night. It's definitely a little chilly out So I think we're gonna wrap it up But so amazing. Like I said, if you guys want to check out the Orlando informant meetup I'll put a link in the description. It is well worth it All of the food that we ate and we drank and everything tonight was all included in the price Like we didn't have to bring cash in with us. So that is absolutely fun You know what I mean? Just to walk around just be like, no, I'll take that I'll take that and you get to try things that you would normally never try You know what I mean? I'm pretty sure none of us would have ever ordered the fish and chips at three broomsticks None of us would have ordered it, but we got to try it. You know what I mean? And uh, yeah now my uh vomit sister here So we're gonna have fun doing other things some things around disney some things outside the parks and Thanksgiving the holidays together. It's gonna be amazing. So I hope you guys enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time Bye Worst part of universal is the walk out Yep Oh boy somebody just ran into that pole Max speed it. Oh there we go max speeding it now. There we go