Day 8: Time for Fun

Ever wonder what happens when you unleash a bunch of creative metal workers on an old shoe factory?  The St. Louis City Museum has got to be one of the most fun, most creative, most unique museums in the world.  There's really no way to describe the place, although the first thing you need to do is replace the word "museum" with "huge playground" in your mind.

The museum is imaginative, frightening, claustrophobic, thrilling, fun, and acrophobic all at once.  There are walls of bread pans to make music on, an underground grotto to explore, two planes suspended several stories in the air that we crawled in and over, a school bus ready to fall off the roof, and a 10-story circular slide.  It has secret passages and ladders and chutes between rooms and even between floors.  We had a fantastic time climbing and crawling all over the museum (and the kids had a ball too).

The place was so much fun that we went back for a second visit the next morning.  Look how far up we are in many of these pictures!

 

 

We also took a ride up the St. Louis Arch.  A young man proposed to a girl while we were up there, so it was both fun and magical!