st louis city museum

We visited the city museum. If you've been there, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, well let me try to explain. It's definitely a unique experience. Your typical museum lets you look. The city museum encourages you to climb inside and out. Steel climbing cages welded together in creative shapes.

Outside on the "ground" -  there's a crawl space under the catwalk going diagnoal across this image. (Actually there's not enough space to crawl, you have to slide, that space might be where Karl ripped up his pants.)

Elise had a great time. The ceiling in this room is thousands of parachute pieces.

More of the outside climbing.

A view of Laurie down four stories from the top of the five-story slide. (The museum was a shoe factory built in the 1920s, decomissioned but not cleaned up in the 1960s, and the biggest curly slides used to be used to transfer materials between floors. The ten-story slide is bigger. Oh, and this space is dominated by the sound of a restored Wurlitzer organ.)

Enjoying the "hamster wheel".

And that doesn't count the magic show, pinball machines, ferris wheel (on the roof) or school bus (also on the roof - hanging over the edge).

And now we're tired, our knees are sore, and Elise has lumps where she hit her head lots.

We had a great day.