Destination: St. Louis! (Part 2)

I had to separate these into two postings, because the City Museum deserves a lot more page space than everything else. It's a museum in NAME ONLY. It might be the most awesome place on the planet - and everyone... EVERYONE needs to go there right away!

Basically, the CM is an old shoe factory (like 10 stories high and 600,000 square feet) of an artist's imagination gone WILD. It is packed with tunnels, caves, incredible sculpture, mosaics, art activities, INSANE outdoor climbing structures -- I cannot even describe its awesomeness. Even Ben was literally WOW'd. GO THERE! Did I mention it has a SEVEN story slide?

A team of 20 artists are constantly working on this place, welding, clipping tiny beautiful tiles, sculpting, adding nooks, crannies, incredible artwork, etc! We didn't even see everything that was there. We want to go back. Our kids said it was the MOST FUN THEY'VE HAD IN THEIR LIFE. Want to go there yet?

Everywhere you turn there's something to be explored... (keep in mind,

Note the INCREDIBLE mosaic tile flooring everywhere...

Remember that outdoor climbing structure I mentioned?

See that school bus hanging off the top floor? Oh, and yes, that's Ben and Jake climbing inside that arched wire structure waaayyyy off the ground!

Here's Jake inside one of the many caves we explored...

Hidden slides and chutes lurked around every corner. (and I have to mention there was a GIANT pipe organ inside the caves -- like huge. The circus music it was playing just added to the one-of-a-kind crazy artsy fun experience.

This is a view from the bottom of the caves up to the top of the 7 story slide. As you can see, there are steps going in about 20 directions... all different avenues to the top. NUTS!


I have lots more pics, but none of them does this place justice.

We finished off the day with the biggest ice cream floats we've ever had.

F.U.N.