Sunday, April 8, 2012

Spring Break - City Museum

The weekend of Spring Break we went to St. Louis, which is about 3 1/2 hours away.
On the first day we visited City Museum - quite possibly the coolest museum ever. It is an old ten story shoe factory turned into the most amazing place of tunnels, caves, slides and play areas. It's hard to explain.  You just have to see it to believe it.


Giant ball pit

Arts and crafts area


Toddler toys

A room full of skateboard ramps

A little bit of this...

A little bit of that...


Outside was this climbing/play area with old airplanes and fire trucks suspended in the air and connected with all these tunnels made of rebar.  Crazy fun. 



Inside the cockpit.



I didn't see any reason why Carver couldn't climb up to go down the big slide. 

A little slow, but we made it.

Going down the slide!



The second floor is an aquarium. 
Carv tried his hardest to get in with the turtles.

Petting stingray





This tank is full of little doctor fish.  If you stick your hand in they will swim over and nibble on your skin.  It just tickles, but it is kinda creepy!
The other big attraction is a corkscrew slide that starts on the 9th floor and goes all the way down.  You have to go through a bunch of caves and up all the stairs to get to the top.  Unfortunately they wouldn't let Carv go, so we stayed back and didn't get any pictures. 

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