This was the day in St. Louis that I had been waiting for. After packing up the car from our hotel visit, we dropped Lola at mimi ( who was fine) and headed off to the City Museum. The place is really hard to explain, but think chutes and ladders in real life. The place was an 11 story shoelace factory that was taken over by artists and made into an amazing place. There is so much...caves that have tunnels that take you to other parts of the museum, an aquarium, a 10 story slide, a roof top carousel, performance spaces, an old skate park on the 3rd floor that is now just used as a big slide room, ball pits, art rooms, blocks, sponge block rooms, an architectural embellishments museum, cafes, and an intricate outdoor system of ladders and cages that link several airplanes firetruck and other goudyesque sculpture. Kind of like a human hamster playground . Like I said, it must be experienced to really get the idea. Jack was hesitant at first to go through some of the tight, dark spaces. After a while though he was leading me through stuff that I thought I'd get stuck in. If I were 25 years younger this would be my heaven.
When we got there we first explored a little,
then headed to the toddler area where Lucca played with blocks and Jack went into the little ball pit.
Then we all played in the sponge area.
Then jack did the narrow gauge train ride. After a snack we caught a magic show, then had lunch. After lunch Jordan and Lucca took a break while Jack and I explored the caves and many of the tunnels. Then we met up again for a trip up to the 11th floor rooftop. Up here they had a 7 story slide that Jack climbed and slid with no hesitation.
We climbed into the schoolbus that was hanging over the edge of the building. Then he played in the fountain for a while,
climbed to the top of a tower,
and did a huge ropeswing.
Time was running out and we wanted to get to the airplanes out front.
After a little more exploration we ended with a trip to the ball pit.
What a day...
Back at Mimi we had dinner and cleaned up for a long haul tomorrow.
Location:St Louis, MO
2 comments:
What an amazing place - and Jack is so brave - I always knew this!
Wish I was there with you. Sounds like St. Louis is a do-over in another few years! Love to all, Babette
Holy HELL! that place looks amazing! Im pretty sure I wouldnt do that climb up crazy thing OR the 7 story slide! Brave kid! I want to check that place out! How do i order that many sponges... I really want a sponge room now!
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