Mary626
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 17, 2005
We look around the marketplace some more. Looked around at all the lego people or lego animals. Jim was really hungry, but everywhere I recommended going he doesnt think sounds good, so he decides to wait until hes in Disneyquest and can grab something to eat at foodquest. We walked towards Disney Westside. All those little lizards that abound in Florida kept running out in front of us, I almost stepped on one once or twice! Everytime Jim sees a lizard he has to say Youre a lizard, harry! (from harry potter.. well not actually from harry potter, the real line is youre a wizard, harry.. anyway).. I dont know why but I still find it funny when he does it.
Stitch was spitting water on passerbys!
Lego people scary!
a lego t-rex
About 3:45 we get to the front of DisneyQuest and stand around waiting to see if anyone was going to show up. Jims brother said he was going to come, so about 3:55 Jim calls him and finds out hes still at epcot with Josh, Janiece, and jims nephew William. They had thought it was at 5. Oh well, no big deal, but Jim and I dont want to wait around another hour obviously, so we buy our tickets (we got 10% off because we had annual passes, just fyi). We wait until 4:05 just to make sure no-one else was coming, and noone did. I was actually kind of glad, I liked the idea of exploring disneyquest for an hour by ourselves.
Jim talking to Chris on his cell phone
I had been to Disneyquest twice before and always get a kick out of the Genie in the elevator, so I was looking forward to seeing Jims reaction to it. We get in the elevator, and a group of about 7 other people come in, and the elevator closes and the genie appears. Then we hear BREEEEP Samantha where you at?! on one of those Nextel walkie-talkie things. I hope I dont offend anyone here, but I cant stand those things! If you want to talk to someone, call them!!!! So we couldnt hear a word being said thanks to Samantha and her friends loud staticy walkie-talkie conversation!! So courteous of them.
You exit the elevators and it takes you to Venture Port - the center of DisneyQuest, with 4 different portals that each take you to a different stair-case to a different zone, like the replay zone, the explore zone, the create a zone, and the score zone. It can be kind of confusing to navigate once you leave this central portal. We take the portal that leads to Foodquest/Score Zone.
They have a few different stations, some with burgers and dogs, others with salads, pasta, pizza, etc, and they have a Wonderland Cheese-cake factory express up one level. Jim was so hungry he just ordered at the first station he got to, and ordered nachos with cheese. He skipped out on earl of sandwhich just to get some nachos and cheese, very healthy. Oh well. We find a seat in the wonderland factory they have cutely shaped chairs and some other alice-in-wonderland themed furniture here and there, and you can sit and use the computers that had internet access on them. Its a cute little place to eat. Jim eats his nachos while I used the computer. They had a screen where you can send some silly e-mail postcards to your friends, so I followed the Cheshire Cats prompts to create a post-card, and sent one to one of jims friends who couldnt make it to the wedding (jims best friend and first choice for best man but he had a presentation to give at his job stupid job), and one to one of my friends that couldnt make it. The post-card had a bunch of drop boxes that you could pick choices from to fill in the blanks and create a silly email, kind of like the old ad-lib games.
One of them ended up saying:
here we are taking lots of photos and having the FBI follow us. We spent stacks of Disney Dollars with the family and evading the FBI. Did you know four out of five dentists came from zoos all over the world? We cant wait till tomorrow to show you all 2000 of our pictures. Wish you were here! Your special friends
I think the 2000 pictures part was supposed to be funny because it seems like a ridiculous amount of photos, but I actually did come home with 3,500 digital pictures!
Jim finishes his nachos and we both finish off his rice krispy concoction. He then decides to check the internet to see if theres any news on the new superman movie that hes currently obsessed with. No news, so he leaves up a picture of the superman symbol on the computer and we look to find our first game to play.
Jim ordering some healthy nachos and cheese
our postcard
Stitch was spitting water on passerbys!
Lego people scary!
a lego t-rex
About 3:45 we get to the front of DisneyQuest and stand around waiting to see if anyone was going to show up. Jims brother said he was going to come, so about 3:55 Jim calls him and finds out hes still at epcot with Josh, Janiece, and jims nephew William. They had thought it was at 5. Oh well, no big deal, but Jim and I dont want to wait around another hour obviously, so we buy our tickets (we got 10% off because we had annual passes, just fyi). We wait until 4:05 just to make sure no-one else was coming, and noone did. I was actually kind of glad, I liked the idea of exploring disneyquest for an hour by ourselves.
Jim talking to Chris on his cell phone
I had been to Disneyquest twice before and always get a kick out of the Genie in the elevator, so I was looking forward to seeing Jims reaction to it. We get in the elevator, and a group of about 7 other people come in, and the elevator closes and the genie appears. Then we hear BREEEEP Samantha where you at?! on one of those Nextel walkie-talkie things. I hope I dont offend anyone here, but I cant stand those things! If you want to talk to someone, call them!!!! So we couldnt hear a word being said thanks to Samantha and her friends loud staticy walkie-talkie conversation!! So courteous of them.
You exit the elevators and it takes you to Venture Port - the center of DisneyQuest, with 4 different portals that each take you to a different stair-case to a different zone, like the replay zone, the explore zone, the create a zone, and the score zone. It can be kind of confusing to navigate once you leave this central portal. We take the portal that leads to Foodquest/Score Zone.
They have a few different stations, some with burgers and dogs, others with salads, pasta, pizza, etc, and they have a Wonderland Cheese-cake factory express up one level. Jim was so hungry he just ordered at the first station he got to, and ordered nachos with cheese. He skipped out on earl of sandwhich just to get some nachos and cheese, very healthy. Oh well. We find a seat in the wonderland factory they have cutely shaped chairs and some other alice-in-wonderland themed furniture here and there, and you can sit and use the computers that had internet access on them. Its a cute little place to eat. Jim eats his nachos while I used the computer. They had a screen where you can send some silly e-mail postcards to your friends, so I followed the Cheshire Cats prompts to create a post-card, and sent one to one of jims friends who couldnt make it to the wedding (jims best friend and first choice for best man but he had a presentation to give at his job stupid job), and one to one of my friends that couldnt make it. The post-card had a bunch of drop boxes that you could pick choices from to fill in the blanks and create a silly email, kind of like the old ad-lib games.
One of them ended up saying:
here we are taking lots of photos and having the FBI follow us. We spent stacks of Disney Dollars with the family and evading the FBI. Did you know four out of five dentists came from zoos all over the world? We cant wait till tomorrow to show you all 2000 of our pictures. Wish you were here! Your special friends
I think the 2000 pictures part was supposed to be funny because it seems like a ridiculous amount of photos, but I actually did come home with 3,500 digital pictures!
Jim finishes his nachos and we both finish off his rice krispy concoction. He then decides to check the internet to see if theres any news on the new superman movie that hes currently obsessed with. No news, so he leaves up a picture of the superman symbol on the computer and we look to find our first game to play.
Jim ordering some healthy nachos and cheese
our postcard