I've Never Done an Escape Room

Last month our dear, good friend, Lauren, came to visit! 

We're the three best friends that anyone could have.

Having lived in Provo for four years, she is very familiar with what our fair city has to offer so we were hard up to find places to go and things to do that would be new and interesting for her. But we, more or less, succeeded. We didn’t take many pictures and it’s because we choose to live in the moment and not on social media (bah! Yeah right, we just got distracted and forgot to take pictures).

One thing we got really into the week she was here was escape rooms. We got so into them, in fact, that we did two! An escape room is exactly what it sounds like: You and some friends are locked in a room and given one hour to decipher a staggeringly large number of clues in order to get out. 

The first one we did was in Salt Lake and it was hard. Really, really hard. So hard that we didn’t finish. BUT we were only two clues away so while my sister, Hannah, was fighting off the worker who came in to kick us out, we solved the last two and finished. So even though we technically didn’t “win,” we still consider ourselves winners. No matter what Jeff says. Jeff sucks.

Official Team Name: "Hot Canadian Dan and his Foxxy Ladies"

We had such an amazing time, we did a little more googling and found a brand new one in Provo called “GETOUT Games.” Dan couldn't join us for this one so it was just the Foxxy Ladies. 

Although it’s the same premise, this one had a very different feel to it. The clues were more intuitive and “process of elimination”-y, as opposed to the random order of things in Salt Lake. Also in Provo you’re racing another team in the room next door. The other group happened to be a group from our ward so we were extra motivated to kick their butts. Which we totally did.

Winners!

I won’t go into too much detail here because I want every single person reading this blog (that’s basically you, Mom) to try an escape room and it’s so much more fun if you go in blind. Even the first one where we finished a minute over the time limit gave us all a sense of real accomplishment. It’s a fantastic feeling to finally unlock a desk drawer after 20 minutes of frustration. And, surprisingly, even more exciting when that desk drawer reveals another lock.

It was a great find and we are really happy we got to share it with some of the greatest people you’ll ever meet.  

Hannah, Rachel, Lauren, Desiree, Amy, and Wallis: Champions Over All the Land.