The museum is downtown St Louis and I got very lost as the GPS routed me a very strange way and there was tons of construction. Eventually we made it but just in time to begin the tour |
The building is full of weird and interesting things. Many of the art was using reuseable materials, some from the shoe factory days. |
There is a section of architecture |
a Bug room exhibit |
Here we found the world record for the largest pencil ever |
They could climb trees and vines |
There is a small aquarium area thru the head of a whale along with a cave system |
kids finding a tunnel in the floor |
Kids loved climbing these areas |
There is even a 10 story slide the kids could go down. |
When I was able to catch the kids we stopped in at the art center where we tried our hands at clay |
Making snow flakes |
We found a magic show where Firedrake was asked to participate:0 |
Outside is a huge tree house with even more climbing apparatuses |
Here is MarioFan climbing the highest point. Firedrake was very proud of herself for also climbing up that high. |
Well, after reading about you getting lost and almost missing the tour, which always happens to me and is why I hate homeschool group field trips (seriously, if I wanted to be everywhere by 9 AM, I would go the PS route!) and then looking at the pictures of your kids climbing and disappearing all over the place, I'm feeling like a vicarious nervous wreck! I know your kids are older, but still that looks like a helicopter parent's worst nightmare! :-) Honestly, it looks like a blast and now you've made want to go to St. Louis, which I swore I would never go to for personal reasons involving my boyfriend from when I was 19 years old (I swear, I am the type of person that would actually run into the one person I know and don't want to see in a giant city, it already happened to me in San Francisco and let me tell you, it;s just awkward....). I'm promising you though, I would never climb that last thing that MarioFan is climbing! I get vertigo just looking at the photo! In fact I had a dream the other night that someone I know wanted to get a penthouse on top of the Eiffel Tower (where the creator used to host the parties you blogged about) and I was trying to discourage her based on your blog post. I was telling her, you think you're not afraid of heights, but you haven't been on the Eiffel Tower.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool place! I take it the kids forgave you for forcing them to visit a MUSEUM for their treat??
ReplyDeleteGreat pics R
You find the best places to visit, this one looks great!!
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