A continuation of yesterpost...
In lieu of a party, my older son decided to go to an escape room. We have a couple of options in our area and decided to go with Breakout, part of a larger, nation-wide chain of escape rooms. This particular location is in an office park, so parking was easy on a Saturday afternoon.
The lobby is fairly simple with a check-in desk, a water cooler, and t-shirt sales. My daughter took advantage of the water after taking advantage of the restroom.
This location has several different rooms. We tried "Runaway Train." We were passengers on a trans-continental ride. The train was taken over by extremists who disabled the breaks and set a bomb in the locomotive. We started in the locomotive but were locked out from the control room. We had to solve a bunch of puzzles before we could enable the breaks and get everyone off the train.
The game was exciting. I was surprised by the number of red herrings and buried or obscure clues. We got through with a bunch of hints from the game master who was watching us via cameras. We managed to finish under the wire, at 55:38, an improvement from our previous escape room adventure in July, where we finished with barely a minute left.
To celebrate afterwards, we went to a local bakery which just happened to have a cake sampling going on.
We made fun of the almond cake that had a warning listed on it.
The store also had popcorn sales. We bought some for our preschooler, who didn't get to go to the escape room because it just wouldn't work well.
The afternoon was a lot of fun.
In lieu of a party, my older son decided to go to an escape room. We have a couple of options in our area and decided to go with Breakout, part of a larger, nation-wide chain of escape rooms. This particular location is in an office park, so parking was easy on a Saturday afternoon.
 |
| Breakout in Columbia, Maryland |
The lobby is fairly simple with a check-in desk, a water cooler, and t-shirt sales. My daughter took advantage of the water after taking advantage of the restroom.
 |
| Getting a drink |
This location has several different rooms. We tried "Runaway Train." We were passengers on a trans-continental ride. The train was taken over by extremists who disabled the breaks and set a bomb in the locomotive. We started in the locomotive but were locked out from the control room. We had to solve a bunch of puzzles before we could enable the breaks and get everyone off the train.
The game was exciting. I was surprised by the number of red herrings and buried or obscure clues. We got through with a bunch of hints from the game master who was watching us via cameras. We managed to finish under the wire, at 55:38, an improvement from our previous escape room adventure in July, where we finished with barely a minute left.
 |
| Our victory picture! |
 |
| Our victory sticker |
To celebrate afterwards, we went to a local bakery which just happened to have a cake sampling going on.
 |
| Oh, What a Cake! |
 |
| Some of the cake samples |
We made fun of the almond cake that had a warning listed on it.
 |
| No, really?!? |
The store also had popcorn sales. We bought some for our preschooler, who didn't get to go to the escape room because it just wouldn't work well.
The afternoon was a lot of fun.
No comments:
Post a Comment