Spring Break 2025 Day 5 & 6 Meow Wolf and Ghost Tour

Day 5 - Leaving Broken Bow, Oklahoma. 

When the boys agreed to come on the trip, they told us that we were not allowed to stop at any cemeteries. D and I like to find the oldest graves in cemeteries and read the tombstones. Today, the boys were following in the car behind us. We were passing a cemetery and D pulled in real quick. The boys followed us and said that we needed to keep driving. J2 drove toward the exit and waited by the gate revving his engine until we left. They don’t like to stop for historical markers either.

When we got to Dallas we had lunch at Pappasito's. Then J2 headed back home to Aquilla because he had to work the next day. We then headed to our next Airbnb but were told we had to wait past our check in time to check in. The description said it slept 6 - two queen beds, a sofa, and a blowup mattress. 

It was cute but a tight squeeze. There was too much furniture in such a small place. The sofa was not long enough for any of us to lay down. We had to push the furniture over to one wall to make enough room to put the air mattress. It was missing several things from its description - towels, plates, glasses, sheets, and the air mattress had a hole in it. The host was very responsive. They told us they had very bad guests right before us who had made a mess and destroyed some things in the apartment. They purchased and had towels, plates, glasses, sheets, and a new air mattress delivered by the next morning. The second sleeping area was separated by a curtain that hung off of the ground by 2.5 feet, not private at all.

The balcony had a great view of a beautiful sunset. We spent the evening playing card games.

Day 6 - We started our day by going to Meow Wolf in Grapevine. Mixed feelings about this. Some areas were cool but others were just weird to be weird. It was a great backdrop for taking pictures but it was super crowded because of Spring Break. We were unable to work on solving the mystery of Meow Wolf because of the huge crowds. You could barely walk through some areas, especially inside the house. The boys were not enjoying it very much so we did not stay long.

The outside of the house and garden area really looked like it was night time.

Inside the house, there were many cool passageways. The refrigerators were my favorite passageways.

This area had 6 different refrigerator doors.

The ceiling decoration was made of cut paper.

We left Meow Wolf, had lunch, and then hung out at the apartment until it was time for the Dallas Terrors Ghost Tour.

We met at the Ferris Plaza and Park at sunset. I brought a card game on the trip called Slip It In. You have to sneakily say the phrase on the card without getting caught. (A couple of months ago, I removed all of the not-appropriate-for-the-middle-schooler cards.) We each took five cards on the three hour ghost tour. It was a fun game but it did make you suspicious of every word spoken by any of the card holders. Boog’s cards are not pictured here. He managed to work “one-ply toilet paper” into the conversation without getting caught.

These cards were not attempted. They were too hard to easily work into natural conversations.

The cards below were used unsuccessfully. They were easily caught.

These are the cards that were worked into conversation without getting caught.

We paid the extra fee to get a couple of EMF tools to detect ghosts. Boogs was showing how it was really lighting up at the starting point of our ghost tour. 

The guide told us three creepy stories about the Holiday Inn Express building - murder, mystery, supernatural occurrences.

The guide told us to take a picture of the castle and then carefully zoom in on the picture. I don’t see any ghosts or orbs in it. The guide was a true believer in ghosts so I think he was more inclined to credit things to ghosts and supernatural occurrences.

Daphne wandered away from the tour to check out a creepy looking hole at the base of the building.

The castle had a museum in it that closed down in 2023. The guide said there are always ghosts moving around in this building. In the video D took, it looked like a mist crossed from one side of the room to the other side.

Replica of a log cabin. The guide had us take video through the crack in the door to capture orbs inside. D swears she caught movement in her video. I think it looked like dust floating in the light of her camera.

The street where President Kennedy's car was when he was shot.

The grassy knoll where the shot that killed President Kennedy came from.

In 2016, a man killed 5 people and wounded 21 in front of this building.

We were the only ones that paid for the extended tour. We wandered around for more than an hour after dark. This is the inside of an above ground grave at the cemetery. The occupants were moved after the structure cracked apart for the third time.

Dallas Cattle Drive Sculpture. It looked really cool in the dark.

It was a fun tour. We were luck to have such a great guide.