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04.04.2023

DreamWorks Water Park and Nickelodeon Universe | The Adventuring Abbeys Vlog

It’s 2023 and that means it’s time to ride roller coasters! We’ve been ITCHING to get away somewhere and decided to take a quick trip out to American Dream to visit the DreamWorks Water Park and Nickelodeon Universe. The last time we were at Nickelodeon Universe was literally 2 weeks before the pandemic shut the...

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03.03.2020

American Dream Mall | Nickelodeon Universe | Tips & Tricks

American Dream Mall Nickelodeon Universe Tips and Tricks

Ten days ago, we went on our very first amusement park trip of 2020. Since it’s still winter here in south western Pennsylvania – every amusement park near us is closed. So, if we wanted to ride some roller coasters, our options were pretty much one: head south. However! That has all changed this year...

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Abby’s Saturday #289 / Irwin, PA Wedding PhotographerMarch 7, 2020 - 3:38 pm
[…] It has been a week in the Abbey house. When I wrote last Saturday that Leander was back in the “massive teething” stage, that was just because I didn’t know what else to attribute his fussy, clingy, not-quite-normal attitudes to. Well, on Monday morning, Derrick to our “family car” to work so that he could get the oil changed on his way home. Something always happens whenever Derrick takes my car – the car with the carseats in it. Always. And, so we laughed about it as we went to bed Sunday night – and then I cried when we woke up Monday morning & Leander was covered in a rash. See? Something always happens. I panicked quite a bit, but after talking to my Mom & doing a bit of research, I decided that I thought he had Roseola. If you’re unfamiliar, Roseola is a childhood illness that most kids pick up between 6-24 months of age. It starts out with a few days of a fever & the kiddo acting lethargic (but not really any other symptoms), and then as the fever breaks, a rash appears & lasts another 2-3 days. Those symptoms fit how Leander had been acting to a T. We had simply been attributing it to the mouthful of teeth he was getting all at one time (seriously, the kid has at least 6 teeth breaking thru at the moment). So, I decided to keep a close eye on him, but “Dr. Google” said there was no need to take him to the doctor unless his symptoms exceeded the “normal”. Sure enough, after about 48 hours, his rash went away & he’s been 100% fine ever since. He likely picked it up while we were at American Dream. […]ReplyCancel
Abby’s Saturday #295 / Irwin, PA Wedding PhotographerApril 18, 2020 - 12:33 pm
[…] life was “normal” – and it literally feels like it’s been eons since we went on our trip to American Dream (when in reality it was just 8 weeks ago). I printed a bunch of photos from our American Dream trip […]ReplyCancel
Our Trip to Dollywood, Holiday World, Kentucky Kingdom, & King's IslandJuly 28, 2020 - 8:00 pm
[…] one at the end of April/beginning of May, and one in June. The February trip happened as planned (that’s when we went to Nickelodeon Universe at the American Dream Mall) and then March arrived. You can probably fill in the blanks that our next two trips were scrapped […]ReplyCancel
Traditional Christmas Letter - 2020 Edition - from the Abbey FamilyDecember 15, 2020 - 8:07 am
[…] February, we took some time off & set off on our first trip of the year! We visited the newly opened American Dream Mall & Nickelodeon Universe – an indoor theme park – complete with roller coasters, flat rides, over-priced food, and Nickelodeon characters (like […]ReplyCancel
2020 Highlights - The Adventuring Abbeys | Highlights of Amusement ParksFebruary 25, 2021 - 8:00 pm
[…] 2020, we visited Nickelodeon Universe at the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, NJ (and we went in February, so no germs to worry about yet!) On our way home, we stopped at Great […]ReplyCancel

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