Yesterday, we had RyAnne’s friends over to celebrate her ELEVENTH birthday!!!

Once all of her guests arrived, RyAnne requested to do presents first! She loved all her gifts! Trey and I allowed her to open our gifts to her as soon as she woke up that morning. She got five pair of blue light glasses and she let her friends all borrow a pair. After the nacho bar, we all headed into the Escape Room of Rosie McGowan.

I’ve hated this room of our house. lol Well, the room itself is pretty great but all that stuff!!! Ugh! So, it’s pretty funny that it ended up being one of the main focuses of her party!! This room is filled with boxes that we haven’t opened yet. So, for the story line I just incorporated it and made it work!

Once all the girls got into the Escape Room, I had Trey stand by the door and told him ahead of time to slam the door and lock it once I got to the good part! The story went like this. . .

Welcome to the front room of Mrs. Rosie McGowan’s home. She was a really old lady and didn’t have a great memory. She sent RyAnne an invitation two days ago to come over because she had a gift for her. RyAnne knocked on her door but, no one answered. She knocked louder and she never came to the door. RyAnne knew Mrs. Rosie very well so she felt comfortable letting herself in to her home. As she opened the door she said, “Mrs. Rosie? Are you home?? Mrs. Rosie?!?” She never answered so RyAnne made her way through the house. She noticed the front room door was opened. She walked through the door into the room and before she knew it the door slammed shut and she heard the lock spin over! She ran to the door but there was no knob. She remembered Mrs. Rosie mentioning to her that her memory wasn’t good and that she was always afraid she would get stuck in that room. So, she decided to hide two keys, the code to the door and four clues in that room - just in case!! Now it was up to RyAnne and her friends to find the clues or find the keys to get themselves out in 60 minutes or less!!!

Well, these girls impressed us and made their way out in 24 minutes!!! Well, sorta impressed us. RyAnne found the key within the first ten minutes of being in the escape room. HOWEVER, she didn’t put the key in the lock all the way and couldn’t get it to work. OMG! Trey and I were in the room with them and allowed them to figure out most of this stuff on their own. We didn’t want to intervene too much but just to encourage them and keep them focused. They figured out the numbers to the code from the clues but needed to figure out the order. We would have them do challenges for clues. One of the challenges was for RyAnne to do one really good push up. She did it!!! For that, we gave her a hint at the first number in the four digit code.

I gave them note cards and pencils so they could write down the different variations they came up with so they weren’t doing the same ones over again. RyAnne put the numbers together and ran to the door and BAM the lock spun over and her and her friends ran out!! They escaped!!! The prize was homemade, Oreo ice cream cake (It was SO good!!) and the Happy Birthday song!

Happy, happy birthday RyAnne!!! We love you so much!!