Then we went to City Museum. What, you have never heard of City Museum in St. Louis? Well, neither had I, but Amber assured me it was fun. It was crazy and almost impossible to explain, but here goes. A bunch of architects bought a ten story abandoned brick building in downtown St. Louis that had at one time been a shoe factory. Then they recycled, reused, and re-purposed a whole bunch of crap into art to build a giant, life-size chutes and ladders game for adults.
When you approach the door, there is a true to life firetruck, gutted. Above your head are two gutted fighter jets. And when I say above I mean 2-3 stories into the air. You get to them by climbing a series of welded stairs of through the old elevator shaft. then you can sit in the cockpit and pretend you are flying. The ticket window is repurposed from an old movie theater. The floors are tile mosaics, made of broken glass, tile, rocks, etc. the flight of stairs goes up 5-6 stories and the railing is old conveyor belt rollers each hand painted with wild scenes. They designed a cave complete with water, slides, black lights, and crystals that was 3 stories tall--you really could get lost in the maze. There is a HUGE treehouse with slides down from the top and "burrow holes" at the roots under the floor. There was a lifesize replica of a white whale in the "ocean room."
There was an old carnival room, an old pieces of buildings room, a science room, a circus tent, a skateless skatepark, adult sized ball pits, "gerbil runs" meant for people that circled the ceilings overhead.
They even had a tiny tot room for Thor-sized people. He got to play in rooms full of wooden blocks, lifesize foam blocks, and legos.
There was a small ball pit just for the little ones and slides just for them too.
We ran all over the place until Thor was so tired he was having breakdowns. It was a blast and we HAVE to go back there.
We all went home and took a nap before heading out to the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game.
Man, was it hot! It was 106 with humidity through the roof!! And they don't have airconditioned baseball stadiums like we do in Phoenix. I spent most of my time watching Thor run around and around making the concession people laugh. They gave him free food for entertaining them. Then the fireworks display started over the Mississippi River. The stadium was the perfect place to watch them from! Even Thor could see them--he was fascinated. We headed home tired, but feeling like we had a lived a lifetime that day!
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