City Museum!

Last week my cousin (2nd cousin actually) Tyler came up to visit me and Lindsey for a week. We had an awesome time. I think we did almost every free thing you could do in Saint Louis, and some pay things as well. This place is one of the pay things, and it is well worth the ten bucks to get in. Its called City Museum. This dude bought an old shoe factory in downtown saint louis and turned it into a giant playground. There are caves and mazes and 3 story slides. You can climb in any hole you can find/fit into. We got to ride down an old shoe shoot for about 3 stories as well. Its amazing. I don't know how this guy made every thing. Here are some pictures of some of the stuff there.



Here i'm coming out of one of the tunnels you can bearly fit in






Lindsey climbing up some cargo net that goes into the ceiling.







This is me and tyler climbing in something about twelve feet off the ground.

This is a giant slinky type thing made of rebar that went up about two stories.

This might be the craziest thing they have there. This guy took old airplanes and cranes and fire engines and hooked them all together with rebar tunnels and stairs. Then he suspened all of it 6 stories off the ground. If you look at the tail of the airplane you will see one of the metal things arching away from the tail. You climb in it, nothing below, above or around you, for about 20 yards or so to this huge platform and then take a giant 2 story slide back to the bottom. Tyler and lindsey crawled in it all. NOT ME!!! I can clean gutters on a three story house, but i ain't about to climb up in some slinky some dude and his buddies made 6 stories off the ground. i hate heights, especially when there's no ground beneath me. I slid down the slide, but made it there another way. I wasn't about to climb in that thing. I felt like such a pansy. There were little nine year old girls climbing all over this thing like they were part monkey or something, and weren't scared a bit. Oh well sometimes you just have learn humilty. That was my day. When you have to choose between being humbled by being shown up by a 9 year old girl or having a heart attack 60 feet off the ground in some wacko jungle gym. I'll take the humilty. The last thing i wanted was to get stuck up in that thing when somebody freaked out and wouldn't move forward. Especially if the freaker-outer was me. I kept my tail a little closer to the ground.

Lindsey saw this guy and got inspired. Next thing i knew she was running around the whole place pushing people around like she was some kind of sumo wrestler or something. Grown men were crying, kids were running around everywhere screaming like the world was going to end. We eventually got here contained in one area of the museum. I calmed her down by singing sweet lulla- byes to her. Then they kicked us out. So our night ended. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.