St Louis discoveries...

St Louis has a strangely depressed feel about it, I have no idea if it was hit harder than any other city by the recession but at least 50% of the buildings and businesses on the drive from the freeway to downtown were either boarded up or derelict. We headed to City Museum because although hot, the city is stormy and it seemed like the best bet for a good day.

City Museum is an abstract, art filled, fully interactive, weird (in a good way), oversized play park. If Willy Wonka was designing a park, this would be it. Inside, a world of underground caves links the  spaces between floors, everywhere you look there's a small agile child popping out of a hole in the floor or an oversized, red faced adult trying to squeeze through a gap in the wall (we were the oversized adults at times so couldn't laugh too much!).

The top of the building is home to a Ferris wheel, a school bus (balanced 'precariously' on the edge of the building), fountains, death slides, a 10 storey slide...and lots, lots more....all this while adults either join in the fun or sit back, eat homemade nachos and drink beer - we did both! Great views too which I hope will give you a feel for the city.

On a professional note I would like to add there were few signs (slightly annoying), no obvious health and safely aka padded walls/warning signs/foam (liberating) and fair prices (unusual). Needless to say if a thrift store could be styled like City Museum I would want one!

 

 





 

More tomorrow, this time from Kansas City...