Escape the Train, Eat the Meat Cake

Today we went to an escape room with our friends Kuoling and Jason.

Conundroom is a pretty rough name for an escape room company. Sheesh.

The theme of today's escape room was Stop the Train! and involved a runaway train that will crash in an hour if you don't solve a series of mind bending riddles in order to stop its engine.

Annoyingly one of the hardest parts of the whole thing was that old timey luggage has all of these weird fake locks and sliding keyhole things that you have to deal with even if you have the correct key. Not being from 1932 I did not know this, and so was frustrated with opening these containers despite it not really being a riddle. There were a couple of sort of rough edges in this escape room that were annoying, but I enjoyed the time with my friends anyway.

Kuoling and Jason love hot pot places so we go with them a lot. This time the joint was Shaburina. These places may as prevalent in the Seattle area as bubble tea and that's saying something.

The people next to us were celebrating a birthday and were presented with some sort of majestic cake made out of meat. I didn't know what it was but I did know that I needed one.

Escape From Wonderland

Like we do most days, today we took a walk.

It's funny because Kirkland is crawling with bubble tea joints but there seems to be no end to them continuing to open. I wonder if this is a bubble, sort of like how cupcakes bakeries were hip for a minute then most of them died. I am not complaining, however, because I love me that sweet sweet boba.

The occasional Oktoberfest style lager helps to deal with the sad realization that for this year at least, my Munich Oktoberfesting is behind me. What a time it was.

Our fun social outing for today was to go to an escape room with our friends Sumit and Shubhra. This time the company was Conundroom Escape Rooms in Redmond and it was Alice in Wonderland themed.

"The time has stopped in Wonderland. The tea party is ruined, cakes and cups are out of place, and the Queen wants the clock to be taken apart! Take a part in the crazy adventure in the land of wonder, help it regain the normal flow of time. You will meet all kinds of funny, exciting, colorful, and crazy animals that will help you solve the mystery of the broken heart. You will have an hour to start the time and save your head from being chopped off by the Queen!"

It was fun. One little quirk of this one was that there were little audio clues here and there. It was sometimes hard to hear them which was annoying but I appreciated the attempt. We did pretty well and didn't need too many hints.