Adventurer Spotting - Like bird watching, but more fun

While we were in Orlando, I was watching for former Adventurers Club CMs. We were happy to spot a few of them.

We saw Chipmunk as Officer Peabody in MGM (sorry, make that DHS). He had attracted quite a crowd, but we lingered there until we had a chance to talk to him. Since he was a police officer I took the opportunity to report a missing person to him. He shared my concern about poor Mr Bleehall once I explained that he was last seen in the company of a known law breaker (Bessie - She gives more milk than any law allows!) but didn't think Emil or Bessie had been apprehended. Sadly, he had not seen Mr. Bleehall recently but he assured me that he would keep an eye out for him. We talked about the Club a little bit, and it was easy to see that he misses it.

We didn't see Lancelot, but we didn't really try too hard. We went to Idol twice and that was more than enough. I'm sure we'll go back on future trips, but it certainly won't be an every day kind of thing. Hopefully we'll see him at a BSS concert soon.

At Epcot, we saw several Adventurers. We saw Tombstone, Simple and Blondie as part of the World Showcase Players. We haven't really taken the time to watch the Players very much on past trips but we did this time, and really enjoyed them. We also talked to Blondie a bit about some of his upcoming stand-up appearances, and we are looking forward to going to see him perform as soon as possible.

We had quite a surprise at lunch one day. We went to Chefs de France, and we had heard that Yvette was appearing sometimes with Remy from Ratatouille. Sadly, she wasn't there but we weren't too disappointed because Blade was there instead. He did a great job as Armand and we were especially happy to see him because we hadn't expected to see him at all on this trip.

And of course we had to go see "What's Your Problem?". We were very happy to see Snoopy there. He told us about his upcoming one man show, and we are trying to plan a trip in April to see it. Given that we fell in love with the Adventurers Club after seeing Snoopy play multiple characters there, we have to see any play where Snoopy plays all of the characters! I am always amazed by the way he can become different people so completely, and I am really looking forward to seeing him play all three dozen characters in his upcoming play.

In other Club news . . . the rumors continue that the Club will be back in some form. The most recent version has a couple of dance clubs (Mannequins and 8Trax, I believe) reopening soon, but being outsourced. They are currently hiring more DJs/performers, so we'll have to see what happens with that. The other part of the rumor says that the Adventurers Club will reopen as more of a dinner show, where an entire group will go to the different rooms of the Club as a group throughout the evening. Supposedly the Club would be expanding into the BET Club next door. What I want is the Club as we've always known it to reopen, but failing in that I'd take the Club in almost any form - as long as they bring back the cast we know and love!

And of course they are taking bookings for private events in the Club through late September. Complete with cast members, if you're willing to pay enough. Rumor is that they will take bookings for October and later at some point, but of course we'll have to wait and see if that turns out to be true. Given the prices involved, I won't be booking an event unless I win the lottery, but it's nice to know it is still an option, anyway. And of course it's not that long till Congaloosh 2009, and we are going to try to go to at least some of that.

The trip was nice, but it wasn't the same without the Club to go to. At least we still got to see some of our favorite CMs elsewhere around the World, but I'm still hoping that the time will come when we will once again be able to see them as Hathaway, Emil, Otis, Graves, and all the rest of the Adventurers!