I picked 2 rooms my first night at Escape Experience in Euless, a few miles west of Dallas.

Royal Heist which I think I completed and Library of Secrets, which though I didn't complete in time, I was allowed to continue for about 3 more minutes to finish it off.  I didn't consider either room a success.

Several people told me I needed to hit up Cidercade, an arcade that specializes in ciders.  I didn't drink any cider but did see a lot of pinball and other machines.  Supposedly, they have 170 total machines, which I can believe - below are pics of rooms 1 and 2 which are huge!

This was the building where my first AirBNB was.  It was very modern, but I wasn't crazy about it.  Stone floors everywhere and there was a smell of dog piss in the hallways.  Inside, the rooms were very spacious and the hallway was very long, so it wasn't really that bad and the piss smell did not pervade into the apartment.

It was right across from the Dallas City Hall.  Also shown below is a view from my window.

The first morning in Dallas was a beautiful one, for all that it was mid-December.  I first went to the Big Bowler Hat, went back to the AirBnB, then walked down to the meeting place for the tour.

The reason for the hat was to sit atop Oulton's Bowler Hat Store, but after the store closed, the hat was put here.   I just found out that I missed the giant umbrella in front of the Lorenzo Hotel, just a few blocks away.  Image below (not my pic.)

On the way to my next venue, I saw the giant eyeball.  What is it about Texas wanting to be bigger than everyone else?

It was a day of conspiracy theories.

I signed up for a 6-hour tour of the JFK Assassination and Oswald's Rooming House.  To the left is a rather poor picture of the former School Book Depository.  Below you'll see pics of the window where Oswald shot from and the sniper's nest where he set up his perch (behind plexiglass.)

We also went to the Rooming House that he went to after the assassination, got his revolver, and went back out into the street and killed Officer J.D. Tippett.  He was caught at the Texas Theater.

Scheduling well-timed flights is very important.  For some reason, I figured a 2:25 flight would be a good idea, but since I had to leave the AirBnB at 11, I had a few hours to kill.  I figured I would visit the Museum of Illusions, something I just found on the same day.  It was quite interesting, but I may avoid other such museums in the future. 

And my bad luck with flights continued, because the flight was delayed again.  Apparently, a rivet had come loose on the wing (seemingly not attached to anything) and the mechanics had to go get a drill, otherwise the rivet may have fallen off and done damage.  This took about 2 hours.  Not just for the fixing, but per the pilot, the paperwork.