The City Museum

The kids had a very random day off school this past Wednesday so we took a family trip to The City Museum in St. Louis.  The City Museum is unlike anything I've ever seen before.  It's a huge building filled with tunnels, climbing structures, slides and more all made from old building materials from St. Louis.  It's great for active kids (and active teenagers and adults)!!  If you have any interest in architecture it's pretty cool from that perspective too.  It is both the coolest place you've ever seen and completely terrifying if you are trying to keep track of kids.  But we all made it out, mostly unscathed.

From the outside the building doesn't look that impressive, although you can see part of a ferris wheel and water tower peeking up from the roof. The rooftop was closed that day - not open until summer.

 Just inside the museum getting our wristbands.

You can already see some of the old St. Louis architecture

The first floor was dark and had lots of tunnels and slides to explore, plus an old log cabin.  Anna was terrified and wouldn't venture into any of the dark tunnels.  Now I know you should bring small flashlights for the kids.  Matthew and Grant, unafraid, took off into the first tunnel they could find, emerging much later in a completely different place.  Luckily Matthew watched out for Grant and helped him along.

 Anna, John and I checking out a big turtle.
Pretty much everything there you could climb on.

 We found a slide that Anna thought wasn't too scary.  Here's John on the slide.

 And Anna climbing up the stairs to it.

 More things to climb

 Scott with Emma waiting for us while we go on the monster slide.

 Anna ready to slide down

 We found a giant ball pit

 Some of the things to climb on outside

 Scott carried Emma the whole time.  Emma was a good sport and didn't fuss too much.

 Grant climbing on the grating over the ball pit.  He wasn't even scared.

 Matthew and Grant climbing in a tunnel right above me.

 Another cool slide the boys liked

 Some giant, roller, spinny chairs

 Grant and Matthew climbing 

 We found an indoor skate park area - but no skateboards - just for running on.  So fun!

Here's Anna trying to climb up on it.

 Here are a lot more pictures of us at the skate park place.  We were there for a while.

 Grant running up the half pipe wall back there

 Anna and Grant

 John kept sliding down the wall and then just laying there.  He was getting tired.

 Here is blurry John just laying there after his slide.

 And he's back up!

 Anna sliding

 Matthew at the opening of one of the tunnels

And here we are ready to go home.  No one was happy to go home.  Maybe we can go back another day.  I think there was still a lot that we didn't see!!  We didn't lose anyone and I didn't get caught in any small crawly spaces so I'm counting it as a win!