Escape Room

Today a bunch of us went to an Escape Room in Downtown LA.  I organized the shindig and got a group together.  You need 12 people to fill the room and if you can’t fill it, they just throw strangers in with you so I figured it was better to be with friends.  I got 9 of my friends to go and one of my friends got 3 others.  My friend Dan’s apartment was in walking distance to the Escape Room (literally a block away) so he invited everyone over to go swimming in his rooftop pool and have some home brewed beer.  I let everyone know but of my group, only 2 of us ended up going.  Obviously no beer for me but it was cool to hang out beforehand.  The Escape Room was fun but super hard.  There were 25 puzzles.  Everyone basically scattered and started working on all different puzzles at once.  It was hard to concentrate and basically you got stuck on one puzzle and missed the rest.  We all agreed toward the end that there were too many people.  It was chaotic and everyone had a period of nothing to do since everyone else was covering everything.  Plus, everyone only really got to solve one puzzle and missed out on all the rest of them.  We had an hour to get out and almost made it.  We were 3 steps away from escaping before time ran out.  Afterward we went out for drinks and apps at an Asian place down the street.  Joe told his friend Erik that we’re expecting and he was pretty happy.  Dan figured it out really easily since I wasn’t drinking.  I think we’re at a point where we’re comfortable with everyone knowing.