The Great Escape

Saturday, January 14, 2017

    This past weekend was one for the books. All the members of our executive council met at the Zeta castle to plan and discuss goals for the upcoming semester. It was so great getting to reunite with my sisters and make decisions together as the new council. After hours of gabbing and planning, none of us knew what exactly was yet to come. We knew we were ending the retreat with an escape room, but none of us had ever experienced one before. We arrived at the escape room in farmers branch around 9pm where they told us we were partaking in "The Cure". They told us that two of us would have to be hand cuffed together, I was immediately hit with a wave of nerves. What were we about to walk into? Picture 10 girls, locked together in box, because that's about how big the room was. They told us a creepy story of a doctor in hiding, and we had to discover the cure to cancer. We enter a room set up to look like a doctors office, we all begin running around trying to find anything that could be a clue. We had one hour to solve the mystery, I honestly didn't think we would make it out, but surprisingly with the help of all 10 girls we found the cure in under 40 minutes, getting us out of the escape room! This was such a fun and engaging experience that all of us agreed we would love to do again. It was a great chance to learn how to all work together under a strict time limit and immense pressure. The escape room was a great way to end our EC retreat and above all, get us pumped for the upcoming semester.