Yesterday, I had an adventure day! My partner, J and I meet up with our friend Britt. She is the amazing friend who gave us the car earlier this month. She is in town for the holidays and as yesterday was my last non working day, we thought we would hang out. We ended up playing a board game at her parent's, going to the local escape room, having lunch & seeing a movie. Literally everything was good.
We beat the escape room, despite it being J & I's first time doing it. We did a cell block themed room, that had an interesting twist. One person, who ended up being Britt, was locked in a jail cell and the other people were locked in the sheriffs office. We could hear each other but not see, except through a tiny tube in the wall for clues. So we had to get her out of her cell, get us out of the office and then get out of the room. We did it with 3 mins to spare! We did have to use all 3 clues + some complementary clues. The clues were given via a screen in the office and there was a button to ask for clues. The Room was great and it had a lot of atmosphere and set dressing. The puzzles where challenging, although we overthought a few of them. That was what most of the complementary clues they gave us was due to, lol.
After that we went to eat at a thai place close by. we hadn't been there before, but we sure will be going back. It was tasty! We all got lunch specials, which came with soup or egg rolls. My soup was delicious and J & B really liked the egg rolls. J tried something new, that was chicken with pepper, onions and other veg. Britt got pad thai and I got thai fried rice. The Fried Rice was soo big, I had leftovers! Everything was reasonably priced too.
We went to go see Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle after that. It was better then we expected it to be! We were all expecting a sequel grab movie with some cheap laughs, but it was much better. The basic premise is that Jumanji was found again and decided to transform itself into a video game, after being dissed in favor of a video game. Then instead of Jumanji invading the world while you play, you get sucked into Jumanji. Per usual the only way to leave is to play and beat the game. The other interesting thing they did was that the teenagers who find the game choose avatars, and become those avatars in game. This is where the celebrity actors come in. They did a great job of playing teenagers playing characters, esp Jack Black. His character was the popular girl who is attached to her phone. The other characters include the skinny nerd boy being the main character played by the Rock, the outcast/nerd girl being the killer of men played by Karen Gillen & the jock boy being the support character played by Kevin Hart. This is the best 'get sucked into a video game' movie that I've seen, and that's including SOA. They handle character vs player dynamics, items, NPCs in funny ways without being over the top or too nerdy for a mainstream audience to get. Two thumbs up, definitely see it.
The board game we played in two parts due to time issues, but it was still great fun. It was called Betrayal on Haunted Hill, and it is so much fun. The game has amazing re-playability, due to the board being set up as you go each time & the Haunt or the enemy you face, changing each time. We got the Star Sickness, which was an alien virus that infected me to make me the traitor. J ended up winning, but he had about 8 cards to my 4 and Britt's 4 by the end of it. It is even on Tabletop Simulator online, so J was super excited. He wants to play it with his online friends soon.
Thanks for reading about my adventure! Anyone else have any adventures recently?
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