St. Louis, St. Louis, and more St. Louis

We made a quick trip to St. Louis for Memorial Day weekend and had a blast. Team M loves St. Louis -- it's such a family friendly city and we have visited at least twice a year since the boys have been born. The boys have watched July 4th fireworks under the Arch more times than anywhere else. We've actually been out of town every July 4th for the past seven years.

This trip we visited a site we've never visited before: the City Museum -- it's an incredible place! It's built inside an old 9 or 10 story shoe factory and has three floors of action for the kids. Indoors has a slide three stories tall! It also has an indoor aquarium, including a shark pool. The shark pool has an acrylic tunnel-slide right through it! Here's a picture of the boys coming down the shark tunnel slide (you can see a shark to the far left!):



However, the most fun was in the outdoor jungle maze of steel and iron salvaged from all sorts of buildings and vehicles. The tunnels climb several stories high and connect to towers and airplane fuselages and slides. Carter immediately took off and scaled one of the highest tunnels and raced down one of the many slides. Here he is effortlessly making his way through the tunnel:



Here's Carter helping Richard climb out the tail section of an airplane fuselage (three stories off the ground!):



These photos only represent about 1/100th of the things to do at City Museum. I haven't even mentioned the two-headed snake in the aquarium section, the Everyday Circus, the toddler room, the life-sized whale that you can walk/climb around inside, the kid-sized ride-on train, the underground caverns, etc... We will definitely be coming back on our next trip!