Escaped

Recently we were made aware of a new activity here in RVA, and had to try it out for ourselves. (Apparently these are really popular on the West Coast? But we just recently had one open near us.) It's called an "escape room". It features several different rooms (they rotate them out as people have a chance to do them) where you and some friends are locked in, with nothing but whatever clues you can figure out from the room you are in, and an hour to get out. Obviously nothing bad happens if you don't get out in an hour, other than having your pride wounded a little.

It was trickier than I was expecting! Not scary, although they DO have rooms that are supposed to scare the bejeezus out of you...especially with Halloween coming up. It was a lot of crazy weird clues that we had to use to figure out the combinations to multiple different locks. That ultimately led us to figuring out the combination on the lock that led to the escape route. We made it out with about a minute to spare. (It actually was sooner than that...but we were stubborn and wanted to try and solve the last clue that we hadn't solved. We didn't need that one to actually get out of the room.)

It was SO much fun, and I really want to go back and do it again soon! It was great to just have a night out with some of our fav people. (Thanks to the littlest sister for wrangling 6 hooligans so we could make it happen. She's the most responsible adult I know. And she's only 16.) It's nice to occasionally BE the kid, and not worry about the kids. I always realize that when I do manage to "escape" my house. Seriously, guys...we need to get out more.