St. Louis Museum

The last day we were in St. Louis we went to the City Museum.  This is the most unique museum I've ever been to. I imagine that it was made by a bunch of hippie's who are into art, welding, recycling, and tunnel's and mazes.  There were mosaic's everywhere from floor to ceiling.  Everything inside the museum is recycled from old item's from the city.  There were so many tunnel's that it was almost a little unerving as a parent.  Kate crawled up one and then we didn't see her again for 20 min.  The tunnel's lead all over the place.

Here is Jence inside a ball pit. 

Ben riding the train

Kate spent most of her time making arts and crafts in the art area

Kirk and Kate in front of a mosaic.  There were lot's a mirrors, tiles, and tunnels and tree's.  Imagine being in a crowded alice in wonderland movie.  The kids loved every second of it.  They even had a really great circus, and also a kind of ecclectic museum with unsual things like snakes, insects, door knobs, ect....  There was an outside portion with lot's of slides and rope bridges. This was probably the highlight of the trip for the kids, but it almost gave me a ulcer since I worried about the kid's getting kidnapped in a huge crowded museum with mazes in a large city like St. Louis. We had to watch them really closely. 

 Below gives you an idea about one of the tunnel's.  This one was good because you could actually see your child climb through it, but most of the tunnel's were not see through, so you don't know where they lead, or where they are going.  Fortunately there was a six year and younger play area, that was enclosed so a parent could stand  at the door way and know that the child wouldn't be able to escape.  The kids were exahusted afterwards.  They went to bed early, and slept really well that night.  That was great since we had to be on a 6:30 am flight home the next morning.