Day 7, Part 2 - Focus on the Family

Today we went to Pikes Peak and then Focus on the Family. Our main reason to go was Whit’s End Soda Shoppe, but they closed early today so we couldn’t do it. :(

Let me tell you what we did do:

When we got there and went in there was a guy that told us where the different sections were. First we went to the kids section; there was stairs that were painted like Whit’s atrium. Down the stairs there was a hall/road, at first it was a hall with a collection of different pictures from various episodes. The road was like a road in Odyssey, on one side there was the Electric Palace and some parking meters, on the other side various shops.

One of the rooms in the hall/road had various things; one was the wardrobe into Narnia, on the inside there was a wall with pictures of all the things from Narnia, there were also parts of the movie playing from a speaker, on a side wall it said: “can you find them all?” Also in the room there was a “Who is it?” were you match the person to his or her character. The only one I remember is Will Ryan who plays Eugene.

There were still more things in the room though. There was a setup of how the people practice their lines, with chairs that said “Whit” and “Connie”. In front of those was a book with their lines in it. The last thing was the Foley’s* station.

*Foley is someone who makes all the sound effects with and for different things. Example: Bob is Foley. He needs to make a door opening and closing sound. He has mini door next to him when the time comes he opens and closes the door.

Then we went to the main room, it had a little bit of ceiling hanging and protruding to let a small toy train go around it. There was also a stage, to the right of the stage there were mix & match blocks of Dylan and Eugene. To the right of those was a dressing room with various outfits of characters from Odyssey.

There was also one of those things were you stick your head in the hole and take a picture.

We later went on a three story slide. Then we did a kids radio show were you basically perform your own Adventures in Odyssey except that some of the parts (Connie and Whit) were already recorded. Jessi was Foley, I played Jamie, (Jamie can be a boy name) and Sammy played Casey. The episode was called: The Case of the Broken Lamp. They made a CD of the recording so we can listen to it just like a normal episode any time we want.

We finally went to the gift store and got a new Adventures in Odyssey set.

- Your friend, Jason