This morning we left Kansas City, MO to travel across the state to St. Louis (308 miles). In St. Louis we went to an amazing museum called the City Museum. It is a museum created by an artist in an old shoe factory by using all kinds of things discarded from various city buildings. The majority of the building is a honeycomb of tunnels and slides. As we walked around it seemed that kids were popping up all over the place from various holes. We also climbed up and went down the 10 story slide created from what looked like old baggage slides. There is also a whole outside structure of wire tunnels and bridges as well.
If that was not enough there is a floor of various novelty items (including the world’s largest pair of under!). On another floor there is an aquarium and a small amusement park is on the roof. The interesting thing is that this museum is not just for kids. It is open until 1:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights for adults with a complete bar. This is definitely one place we want to come back to.
After the City Museum closed, we drove down to the St. Louis Arch. Unfortunately the tickets to go up in the arch were too late in the evening for our plans, so we decided to get tickets for tomorrow morning and make a trip back to the Arch before we head east.
Our hosts for the evening were David and Mark, who live in Alton, IL which is just across the river from St. Louis. David was the Director of Music and the handbell choir Karen and I were in when we lived in Northern Virginia. We have a wonderful home cooked meal, including a traditional St. Louis appetizer of toasted ravioli. Their home, which dates back to the 1830s, is beautiful. It was said that there is a picture somewhere of President Lincoln standing in front of their home around the time of the Lincoln vs. Douglas presidential debates that took place in Alton, IL.
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