When my youngest son was between 2 and 3, we had friends in and all went to Universal Studios for New Years Eve. The place was packed. We all went into a dark theater to see a show. I was holding his one hand and my husband was holding the other. As we entered, a huge crowd was coming out. In the dark my son pulled his hand away, but becuase he was between my husband, and I, and couldn't see, I just assumed he was still in front of me with his dad. He had also pulled away from his father's hand and my husband had assumed the same as me.
We sat down and watched the show....each of us thinking our child was on the other side of the other parent.
We found out later he was swept away with the outgoing crowd, down an elevator and wandered alone into the streets of Universal Studios! After the show, we both realized he wasn't there and went into shear panic. Everyone with us was running everywhere. We searched for about 20 minutes, this was in addition to a 20 minute show!
We thought he was gone forever! I was too scared to cry....no employees had seen him, ......but we kept searching. We ran into the Nickelodean show and there he was,..... on stage! One of the employees had figured he was lost after he wandered in and distracted him by putting him into the current show.
When I got a hold of that boy, I never cried so hard in my life. He clung to me, and I clung to him both of us sobbing with relief!
That was the worst scare I have ever had in my life!
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