{"id":3172,"date":"2017-03-19T18:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2017-03-19T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T22:32:06","slug":"escape-room-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2017\/03\/19\/escape-room-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape! Room? Weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Isn\u2019t it true what they say about the good things always being so unexpected? Sometimes it just starts with an \u201cI want to do this, who\u2019s in?\u201d\u00a0 Hands go up, shouts of \u201cpick me\u201d \u201cpick me\u201d and we\u2019ve got ourselves an adventure.<\/p>\n

This past weekend, before Stella ran her ass through our neck of the woods, two of my nearest and dearest found time, and an opening in their schedules, for a visit. \u00a0All centered around too-much-time-had-gone-by and this thing called an \u201cescape room\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course an adventure needs fuel, so brunch was in order at a lovely place called La Pecora Bianca<\/a> on the corner of 26th<\/sup> and Broadway.\u00a0 Parking was a breeze on 26th<\/sup> between Broadway and 6th, <\/sup>and Escape the Room<\/a> is also on 26th<\/sup>.\u00a0 All thanks to David\u2019s extraordinary \u201cproducer\u201d instincts, and recent run on the \u201cCircus\u201d<\/a>, we were a well-oiled machine left only to enjoy our game.<\/p>\n

From Escape the Room:\u00a0 An Escape Room is a real-life escape game in which you and your team have an hour to solve puzzles and unravel mysteries through finding clues. The room can take up to 12 people; you must work together as a team.<\/em><\/h2>\n

Am I going to be locked in a room?\u00a0 Yes! It wouldn\u2019t be much fun if you weren\u2019t! Don\u2019t worry though, every game is monitored by audio and video surveillance. In case you need to leave the room during the game, there is a green exit button clearly marked by the door that unlocks the room in case of an emergency\u00a0situation. Should you choose to leave during the 60-minute time limit, your game is over, however, the remainder of your group may continue until the time runs out or succeed in escaping.<\/em><\/h2>\n

The prospect of being locked in a room for an hour can be a bit intimidating and the blood red walls didn\u2019t help, nor did the slam of the door and the start of the clock.\u00a0 But that intimidation lasted less than a minute, there was work to do.<\/p>\n

Kyle, David and I have been friends for a very long time, our conversations are varied and intelligent and often very funny. Now here we are locked in a room with three very nice kids, college kids, like Harvard and Brown kids.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it funny how intelligence can transcend age at times?\u00a0 The enthusiasm of those kids mixed with our patience and breadth of knowledge made this even more enjoyable.<\/p>\n

Set to our task the minutes clicked by and we were sooooooooooo close (no spoilers) but unfortunately we had to be released from the room, we did not solve the mystery.\u00a0 We have all taken to saying we would have had it solved in another five minutes.\u00a0 Really, five minutes.\u00a0 We were that close.<\/p>\n

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Retrieve the car, back to Stowe Lane, where we took up residence around my table and do what we do.\u00a0 Catch up, with animated conversation, and divine friendship.\u00a0 It is so easy to be together, it is so easy to pick up where we left off and go places we\u2019ve never been all without leaving the table.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t easy to drop David off at the train station.<\/p>\n

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One more day with my dear summer sister and she would be out and home before the storm. Her visit to see Gramma was a huge uplift for her in her rather limited existence.\u00a0 Rere adores her as do we all.<\/p>\n

And then we do what we do best, chat or not, coffee and a sweet, love of an old dog make for a relaxed day of this and that.\u00a0 It was a lovely weekend escape on so many levels.<\/p>\n

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T.F. Hodge said it best, \u201cFeed the mind good wisdom, the body good nutrition, the soul good vibes, and the heart good love. Elevation for your situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Isn\u2019t it true what they say about the good things always being so unexpected? Sometimes it just starts with an \u201cI want to do this, who\u2019s in?\u201d\u00a0 Hands go up, shouts of \u201cpick me\u201d \u201cpick me\u201d and we\u2019ve got ourselves … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[820,819,813,821],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pause-points","tag-adventures","tag-escaperoom","tag-oldfriends","tag-visits-with-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27hQ5-Pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}