Wow! What a FUN day! I'm going to limit my words and let the pictures tell the story, but City Museum in St. Louis provides one TRULY one of a kind experience!
Housed in an old shoe warehouse that is 10 stories tall, this museum has been on my list for years, and I am so glad that we finally got the opportunity to visit!
It is an art installation like no other ~ 10 stories + a rooftop FULL of climbing structures, tunnels, slides, bridges, and more. Everything is made out of reclaimed items, AND there are NO maps!
Imagine your children taking the 10 story slide...
that you did not ride on and you then running down 10 flights of stairs, entering a dark central cave structure, and trying locate just where that slide ended up spitting them out...
This is the view looking up...
Oh look...there they are...just a couple of the gazillion other kids up there yelling, "Mom...Mom...Look up here!"
Yep, it's about like that, and it is AWESOME!
That said, I think that my kids are at the right ages for it to be enjoyable for ALL of us... I'm not sure I, as a parent, would've enjoyed chasing my curious children around this place even just a couple of years ago, but it was PERFECT today!
Anywho, here we go!
Visiting on a Sunday, the hours were 10:00am-5:00pm. We arrived shortly after it opened, left right before they kicked everyone out, and still didn't get to see and do it ALL!
We beelined it up to the roof first thing, and spent about 2 hours up there, seriously... Just for starters, there are 3 slides, a full ferris wheel and a gigantic statue of a praying mantis up there!
This is the inside of the old roof from the local planetarium, and for reference, see that tiny cage up at the top?
That would be what B is climbing out of here...
Yep...
I love this picture... It's a family picture of the 5 of us... If you look closely, you can see our 3 kids up above our heads hanging out at the top of a wire climbing thingamajig...
Like I said, we spent a solid TWO hours up there on the roof!
Did I mention the bus? Well, it's temporary closed, and I think... Make that, I KNOW that I am okay with that...but, it is pretty cool!
The front of it actually hangs OFF of the roof!
So, after collecting my FOUR 10 story slide sliders from the interior cave structure, we grabbed lunch at one of the cafes and refueled for the afternoon!
One floor was chock-full of several vintage video games and pinball machines...
We eventually made our way back outside to the play structure located on the lower levels. You can see what part of it looks like looking down from the roof here...
After cooling off inside...
we went back outside for more...
The kids are in one of the tunnels getting ready to slide here...
and once we realized that the slide went right by one of the windows, I just had to snap pictures from inside!
B...
L...
and M...
We eventually made our way back up to the roof for one last hurrah...
before heading down to the first floor one last time...
We opted for the stairs this time...
Yes, there is an elevator, and of course, the aforementioned 10 story slide, but the stairwell houses artwork fun as well!
Yes, there is an elevator, and of course, the aforementioned 10 story slide, but the stairwell houses artwork fun as well!
Our 13 year old with stair 13...
Our 10 year old on the 10th floor...
and, our 9 year old on the 9th floor...
We left the museum and headed over to the Delmar Loop to eat an early dinner at Fitz's Root Beer...
Gearing up for an AMBITIOUS (even for us) chunk of driving tonight and tomorrow... Just keeping ourselves honest... I didn't name our blog The Ambitious Odometer for nothing!
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