Mission Impossible, Sort of.

Around a week ago, we went to another Escape Room in Rosh Pina ( a town in Israel. )
Since the last one was so fun, we decided to do a harder one at Inside Out.
We were in Paris, and our objective was to track down a terrorist group. According to the tape recorder I found in the second room; the terrorists had hidden a bomb. As part of the story, a recorded message from an agent informed us that we had to find it, put it in the 'Atomic Vault,' and quickly get in the bunker to avoid the explosion. After he finished explaining our mission, the sound of screaming and gunshots emitted from the tape recorder. Yikes.

First, we were on a 'train.' In that room we found a phone, which the lady running the Escape Room used to text us clues if we needed them. We managed to get out of that room pretty quickly.

The second room was the biggest and the hardest to escape from. There were lots of different spices in bowls on a table, and later we figured out that we had to smell them and compare them to the smell of some spices hidden in boxes. The spices in the bowls all had symbols sticking out of them. On the table, there was also a piece of paper with the symbols deciphered into numbers. We then used those numbers to open the lock under the table.

There were many different objects and things in the room, but some of them were just decoys to throw us off. I found the tape recorder in that room. Our last room was all about teamwork. In short, it was really tricky but we managed to find the bomb and put it in the vault. We finished in around an hour. 

Yay!

Stolen Mona Lisa...

The Mona Lisa had gone missing...

and we had to find it.

Back in Kfar Blum, me, mum, dad, and my brother went to an Escape Room in another kibbutz near us.

An Escape Room is basically a game where you're trapped in a room, and you have to crack codes and solve riddles using clues to escape. A man told us the rules, and what we were going to be doing. We were private investigators who were sent to retrieve the stolen Mona Lisa, return it to the museum, and arrest the thief - Carmen Amzalez - before the museum opened to the public.

The first interactive escape room opened in Japan in 2007, and now there are over 1,850 in the US, 350 in the UK, and 408 in Canada. There are lots of different themes like: Bank Robberies and prison breaks, Crime investigations and Zombie apocalypses, and some you just need to escape the room.

Our time limit was an hour and we just reached it. It was so confusing; I don't even remember half of the things we did. There were all sorts of locks and hidden clues and riddles. There was artwork all over the walls like you would see in a museum, and random things that you would not see in a museum.
A bucket of different keys, a sandcastle, giant red buttons, etc. You had to really think outside of the box but despite the struggles, we found the Mona Lisa and managed to finish in precisely
59 minutes - a minute before our timer went off. We had so much fun and Leonardo Da Vinci would be proud.