Spring Break 2010

The kids were itching to go someplace for spring break this year. We had discussed going back to the Wisconsin Dells, but since we had been there, we decided to go to St. Louis; somewhere we had never been before.

Because of Alan's work, he could only take a couple of days off. He took March 18th and 19th off. We drove down late after work on the 17th and woke up early on the 18th. The first place that we went was to downtown St. Louis to the City Museum. It is a seven story warehouse of fun. Check out the website.

 This warehouse even has stuff on the roof to do. Take a look at the upper right corner of the building. There is a full sized school bus hanging over the edge. They have removed part of the floor and installed Plexiglas. You can stand on it and see nothing but air below you. Too bad the roof was closed for the winter.

The first thing the kids did was go down the 3-story slide. It has a bunch of metal roller pipes above you that you run your hands on as you go down. They make noise.

In the art area, there was a lady that painted faces. She was awesome. The kids loved getting their faces painted.

The ground floor was a jungle/cave/metal forest that kids could crawl through and get lost for hours. They even pushed the parents to explore.

 All the kids loved to climb through everywhere, but it begin to get real crowded which stressed them out. The noise was loud too.

If you can believe it, they also have a 5-story and a 10-story slide. We were dead tired after climbing the to the top one.
 
The museum also has a aquarium section that you have to pay extra for. The best part of it was this tank that you put your hands in and these little fish eat all the dead skin off your hands; an almost perfect manicure. 

The next thing we did was head to the St. Louis Arch to get tickets to ride to the top. It turns out they sell out quickly and the don't pre-sell tickets for the the next day. We decided to find a hotel with an indoor swimming pool and take a rest.

This is a requirement when we travel. This kids love to swim. J.T. is such a ham for the camera.


We spent the night and had a great breakfast in the morning before heading out to get our tickets to the arch.


We got our tickets and then realized that we had left the camera in the car. Braden had his iPhone and took pictures at the top, but I don't have them to show. It was a lot of fun being 620 ft up in the air looking out a little window.This is a picture of the arch by holding the camera against the arch pointing straight up.

We then when to the Science Station. There was some neat stuff to look at, but not a lot to do. We did spend extra money to let Braden and Kiera ride on a Segway. They had a lot of fun. Braden was the only one in the group that didn't wreck one.


With money running low, we decided to go to a city park that has a bunch of sculptures. The park had a bunch of geocaches, so dad took off to find them why the rest of the group hikes around.

We headed home late making it home just after midnight. What a great time we had.