The City Museum

I've been a very bad blogger and have a TON of photos to post from the last month or so.... so let's get started with our trip to the City Museum in St. Louis on Memorial Day.

I had shown Alex the website, so this museum was on his "must see" list for our little weekend trip.

Since it looked like rain that day, we started with all of the outside stuff first.... MonstroCity...
It was absolutely amazing! I didn't get any good wide shots of the place, but search City Museum St. Louis in Google Images and you'll see some cool shots of just how big and fun this place is.

Alex really had to work on conquering his fear of heights.... :-)

After playing a while in MonstroCity, we decided to head up to the roof before it started to rain.

The kids had fun going across the stepping stones...
I got brave and joined Clara in the bus that sticks out over the side of the roof....
(click on this link to see photos of the bus and how it truly does hang out over the side)

We didn't stay in too long....
Clara then went off in search of Alex...
She found him in the dome... and they both came climbing down the inside...


Then we went inside and down to the first floor....
Where the kids found the roller slide....

And found crazy coiled tubes to climb through....
Then we went up to the third (?) floor to the skate-less park....
.. where the world's largest pencil resides....
Once Clara finally made it to the top of one of the ramps....
.... she loved sliding down....
Alex tried it too...

Next we went to see the model trains. The kids went through the tunnels to get a better view...
And in the Museum of Mirth, Mystery and Mayhem... we found Jeff's twin....
... well, not as much so now... but when we first met, his hair had a bit of a "Big Boy" flip to it :-)

We then went into the Elmslie and Sullivan section and the Renovated Architecture Hall....




And then I turned around and realized that I was alone and had to go off searching for my family!

I found Alex and Clara climbing down to the second floor, from the third floor...

Then it was back down to the main floor so Jeff and the kids could climb through the caves so then could go down the 10 story slide (or is it a 7 story slide? I can't find that info on their site, and I've heard people say both).

The view from where I sat and waited ....

I'm not sure why I stopped posting while the kids were away at camp! I have a ton of photos to post.... I have still been keeping up with my photo of the day BUT it's been so long since I took them all, it's daunting to try to figure out which photos were taken on which day since I used multiple cameras. I just need to sit down and do it!