Focht Family Blog

We loved solving Japan so much we went back to the kiosk and asked if we could solve the other country they were testing that day, which was Germany. In Germany, Professor Dementor has created a mind controlling pretzel and everyone who eats one becomes a zombie who wonders around aimlessly like they are on vacation. Must have been a lot of customers! :) Your assignment is to figure out a tune that can be played that will reverse the mind control.

Your first location takes you to a miniature village that is plagued by giant squirrels. When you arrive at your location it triggers the clock on the church in the center of the town to light up and chime and various people in the village raise their hands like zombies and their eyes glow red…

While we were here two gentlemen noticed the chimes and lights on the church and kept watching it to see if it would do it again. I wonder how long they waited? I think that is the best part of this adventure. When something happens other people who are not on the adventure can’t figure out why things are happening. :) The next location was a store that has a display of beer steins over a mantle. When you are there it triggers the beer steins to start singing. Again… a lady was just taking a picture of the steins as they started singing. She jumped and wasn’t sure if she had done something….

The next location leads you to the toy store, Der Teddybear, where you trigger a train above you that has a coded message lit up on its back car…

The next location takes you to a cuckoo clock store where you have to find the correct clock display which triggers this clock to start up giving Wade more notes to figure out the correct tune needed.

Now we are back outside where we have to find a snack area and we are asked to give an answer as to what is on a particular shield. The next location we have to find is the Christmas store where we have to look for a display of nutcrackers. The large nutcracker in the middle lifts the lid of the gift he is standing on revealing the final notes needed.

Last stop is to play the correct tune and stop Professor Dementor. Once you find a particular window and stand looking across the street at the candy shop the doors above the shop open to reveal a German girl chasing Professor Dementor trying to hit him on the head….

Now that the world is safe once again, we are sent to a barrel to return our communicator…

I am hoping while we are still here for a few more days that we will be able to stumble upon another testing. I would love to solve a couple more countries and the kids are all anxious for more as well. All in all it was definitely the most fun we have had as a family at Epcot. When it is open there will be 7 countries that you can solve. For us, each country took about 30 minutes to solve.

Thursday was spent at Epcot. Nathan found out about a new thing at Epcot while on his tour. It is a Kim Possible experience where visitors are given a Verizon phone that has an RFID chip attached to it. It is in field testing right now. I think they said it would be open by January. When it opens there will be 7 countries that you can “solve” crimes in. We were lucky enough to spot cast members in the Kim Possible uniforms and found out they would be field testing two countries that afternoon.

When you check in with them you are given a communicator (phone). The phone gives you transmissions from Wade and Kim that tells you where you are supposed to go and what you need to do. Here is a picture of the family looking at the transmission and a close-up of the phone.

The first country we tested was Japan. It was the case of the Killer Baby Bebe. The Bebes are robots that look like women. The theory of this case is that a baby Bebe has been created and is out of control throwing tantrums all over the place. You have to restore the balance of the elements to calm the baby down. The first location you have to find is a koi pond. If you are in the right place when you push the button on your communicator water will flow from a rock restoring the balance of water. Here is a picture of the koi pond…

At this point we didn’t realize that we were supposed to be looking for things to happen so we missed that the water wasn’t flowing out of the top of the rock when we got there. Next we had to find some wind chimes that were hidden in an alcove. When you get there, wind blows up behind you and blows the wind chimes. Now balance was restored to wind. This is when we figured out that we were triggering events.

The next location you have to find is a zen rock garden. When you are at the right location LED lights light up a Japanese symbol on a rock. Now the balance of earth is restored. During the search you also have to find someone who speaks Japanese to translate a saying for you. The final element that needs to be restored is fire. You are asked to find a lantern at the opening of the castle. When you are at the right lantern, it lights up with a flame inside of it….

Now that all of the elements are restored you have to find the baby Bebe so that Wade can reset her and make her a good baby again. This search leads you to the store where you have to look for a wall of paintings. When you are there you trigger the baby Bebe to come out of a display with her eyes glowing red. Once she is restored she goes back down with her eyes glowing green…

Now that the world has been saved by the Killer Baby Bebe you are directed to another location where you return your communicator…

This was the most fun we have had at Epcot with our kids. :)

Wednesday Nathan took the RV and the truck to Independence RV to have a new braking system installed. The Brake Buddy only comes on when you slam on the RV brakes so he had a system installed where the truck brakes are tied into the RV brakes with an air line. While he was gone my mom and I took the kids out to the restaurant at Fort Wilderness for a VERY expensive breakfast and then let them play at the playground. Since Nathan wasn’t going to be back in time for lunch we decided to take the bus to Downtown Disney for lunch. If all else failed there is a McDonalds there. We decided instead that we would give the new T-Rex Cafe a try. It is like a Rainforest Cafe with dinosaurs. They have intermittent meteor showers and all the dinosaurs move and roar. Here is a picture of the octopus over the bar and of the T-Rex at the front of the restaurant.

We were sat at a table for 4 with a chair on the end for Josh. Two feet away was a rounded booth set for 5 people. When I asked if we could sit there instead I was told that there wasn’t a server for that table. However after 10 minutes of sitting at our table we still hadn’t seen our server so we left and went to McDonalds. :) From what I could see the prices were high and the service was bad. I won’t be going back to actually try the food.

After lunch we walked through a few stores. One if them is a LEGO store that has tables outside for kids to play at. Here are the kids building…

After this we headed back to camp just in time to help Nathan unhook the truck and park. :)

I have been bad about updating but this week has been busy! Monday Nathan went on an all day Backstage Magic tour so we hung around the RV. Tuesday we went to Hollywood Studios for a few rides again. We took Josh on Star Tours for the first time. While there we noticed that C3PO had one silver leg. I’m not sure how that happened…

Usually Disney is better with details. Tuesday night we went to the Polynesian for the Luau. They ask you to check in 30 minutes early. Not sure why because they do not seat you early. Here is my family after waiting for 25 minutes or so…

The first part of the show they call the kids up to dance. Timmy isn’t as outgoing as the other two so only Samantha and Josh went up for the dance lessons.

The next part was for people celebrating birthdays. I guess I know where Timmy gets it because I refused to go up on stage. :) The next part of the show was demonstrations of various island dances. This is the best picture I got of one of the couples.

I found this particular dancer to be interesting. Disney has a rule that cast members cannot have visible tattoos. Nathan thinks that they might allow this one because he has tribal looking tattoos. One of Timmy’s favorites was a guy that had warrior painting on his face. He came out and stuck his tongue out in a display to ward off evil.

While I enjoyed the whole show, Timmy wanted to go home until the warrior and fire dancer came out and my mom and I were the only ones who enjoyed the food. Oh well! :)

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Last night we cut out Nathan’s braids as soon as we got home and trimmed his beard. This morning I gave him a haircut. I could not believe how different he looks with his beard trimmed. He has been growing his beard for Halloween for four months. I haven’t seen him with his beard trimmed for quite awhile. :)