MouseAdventure

Today we spent all day @ Disney, doing a scavenger hunt called MouseAdventure. This is my 7th time participating (held 2x/year), and Steve's 6th time. Steve missed the spring '08, he was in Denver for work (and don't get me started on the spring...it sucked!). We originally were planning for 2 teams - Guys versus Girls. But, unfortunately, with the fires going close to Disney, Joelle's asthma kept her & Gabe from joining Shannon, Corey, Steve, and I...so we combined back down into one team and hit the parks. We ended up playing in the Advanced division, something we haven't done before...because the Basic division registration filled in 44 minutes, and I tried to register @ minute 45. So we had to do 5 quests, instead of 3...we got 3.5 completed ...plus solve the MA Mystery, which we didn't do completely either...we only got the when & what of the puzzle. Steve put the GPS tracker on his iphone, and it ended up dying after about 4 hours... but this some of the route we took through Disneyland (phone died before we got over to California Adventure (DCA) for quests 3-5):

To orient you a little bit, the entrance to Dland is @ the bottom of the picture; the big white circle in the bottom right is Space Mountain... we spent a lot of time in the hub, this is where we re-grouped between quest puzzles (we were allowed to split up our team in Disneyland, but not in DCA. So the phone recorded 3.5 miles, just in the 4 hours...

Results should be released late this week or early next week...will post when I know. Our usual goal is to finish in the top half of the participants...we've normally been fairly successful with this goal, but in the less competitive Basic division, so we'll see. But we had a lot of fun, the air pollution wasn't really noticable, and none of us died of heat exhaustion. We did take the opportunity to grab some beers in DCA, and were puzzle solving with booze in hand (and it didn't impair us one bit...we were already impaired by ourselves!). And afterwords, we always skip the awards ceremony (they do figure out top 3 for each group), and got more drinks, and some much-needed food.

I should probably go shower now, and will likely be heading to bed somewhere around 9 tonight...it's been a long day!