Day 3 - St. Louis City Museum

Today we went to the amazing City Museum in St. Louis.  It is hard to describe and is mostly made from salvaged architectural pieces and "junk" from around St. Louis.  Everything is designed to be touched, climbed over and crawled through.




Our first stop was an area known as "the caves" which was full of concrete tunnels.  I really regret not putting Sweet Pea in long pants though, because the ground was really rough on her tender knees.






We walked into the mouth of a giant whale.

There were ladders and stairs and hanging crawl spaces _everywhere_.  I knew that the City Museum was going to be fun, but it was even better than I expected.  It was mind blowing.





We found a slide that warned "The heavier you are, the faster you will go!" But Mimi was not to be deterred.  She went very fast.  lol.  And hurt her back a little bit.

We spent a bit of time in the "toddler" room, where Sweet Pea was able to play in a huge cage full of balls and Mimi was able to lay on a rubber ABC mat to do her back exercises, which luckily seemed to do the trick so we could get back to exploring.

We passed by an "Old Curiosity Shop" looking room where we met the "Snowflake Lady".  She showed us how to cut folded paper to make snowflakes that contained animals and objects hidden in their designs.  Sweet Pea made a dragonfly snowflake.  I cut out a "very hard" swallowtail butterfly snowflake and Mimi made the most beautiful of them all, which was a "very hard" fairy snowflake.  

We chose the "very hard" designs because she told us that she would laminate them for free if we were able to complete them.  Of course, we were up for the challenge and got our snowflakes laminated.  We had so much fun with her, that the Snowflake Lady invited us to come back after lunch to make Amish rag dolls with her.

We had some very tasty sandwiches for lunch at the Samwiches in the City restaurant.  Sweet Pea was crazy about her pretzel bread grilled cheese, which she unfortunately dropped on the floor before she finished.  There was a lot of crying.

After lunch, we returned for our lesson in making the Amish rag dolls.  You could choose to make a regular doll, a princess, a fairy, a ninja or a pirate.  We all chose to make fairies.  The lesson went very fast and was extremely stressful.  The Snowflake Lady turned out to be quite a taskmaster, but we were thrilled with the results.





Mimi's fairy "Marigold" is the redhead on the left.  Sweet Pea made the blond in the middle and named her "Clover".  My doll, "Lily", is the one with the red face and white hair on the right.   We have become surprisingly attached to them.  Aren't they beautiful?




Sweet Pea finished up the day at the City Museum by going down a 2 story slide, 3 times in a row.  We reluctantly left a truly magical place, with promises to return.








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