Women Who Wine: Ace of Escape! March 3, 2017

Our adventure for the day was a stint at Ace of Escape, 236 S Scott Ave 2nd Floor | Tucson, AZ. The site is a former funeral home which adds to the mystery. Thankfully, the game is timed so, no matter what the outcome, we could escape our room! There were 10 ladies of the vine who were able to participate with Daryl as hostess for the day!

Below was our mystery to solve:

A famed illusionist has murdered his beautiful assistant. Your team of investigators return to the crime scene, but find yourselves locked in and under a hypnotic trance. You must sift through the evidence distinguishing between reality and illusion to determine the cause, date and location of the mysterious murder within 65 minutes. This room is best for groups of 4 and more. Great for team-building and requires groups to work together quickly with effective communication. Lol, and then there's the Women Who Wine!

As we depart form the Madera Clubhouse we are all grins and giggles. Little did we know!

LtoR - Judy, Christy, Pam, Cathy, Debbie, Vicky, Connie, Carole and Kelly

LtoR - Judy, Christy, Pam, Cathy, Debbie, Connie, Vicky, Daryl and Carole

This is what we envisioned going in....

and...

Instead our adventure looked something more like this...

After 65 minutes, numerous hints including the game supervisor coming into the room multiple times, calling us on the radio multiple times and probably figuring she should have stayed home that day, we figured out that the murder weapon was the golf club but not the date nor location! And we all thought golf was the ultimate exercise in humility! Well, we all initialed the Wall of Shame but admitted we had fun. We did discover Vicky is the most competitive of all!

First, they blindfolded all of us and then split us into TWO rooms. The rooms were dark and lit only by blacklight. We couldn't find the flashlight but thankfully Daryl thought to keep her cellphone.

This author was super glad she wore a white bra under her blouse. Carole was thoughtful enough to wear a white bra too! The black light certainly highlights white material!

Good grief this was HARD!
Not only was the room dark and lit only by blacklight,
Daryl and Carole's white bras were so distracting!

Thank goodness they let us out at last!

LtoR - Connie, Kelly, Debbie, Christy, Cathy, Daryl, Carole
Pam, Vicky and Judy

Afterwards, we departed the parking lot but not without a minor incident. Here's to "It could have been worse"!

After our experience at Ace of Escape...thankfully it is timed for release and not based on actual puzzle solving ability, we trekked to Hotel Congress where they had a patio table ready for our luncheon respite. Our waiter needed a bit of education regarding wine but we got what we wanted at the price we expected, lol! This author has never had a waiter announce a glass of wine by price so this was a first!