Murdoch Memories: Day 13--St. Louis, Missouri

Today we experienced the City Museum in St. Louis. It is basically a huge jungle gym made out of recycled wire, stairs, statues, etc. from around the city. It is kind of hard to explain. We immediately went to the roof -top to play, since it was about to rain, again. The roof-top is up 11 stories! (If it rains, they shut down the roof.) Dan and the kids decided to climb up the inside of a dome type structure. It was really high up! Then it started to rain, so we went inside to explore. In order to get down to the ground floor, we took a slide! (It actually was very twisty, and you didn’t go very fast.) The kids then played for a long time, while Dan and Wendy did the easier pace (using real stairs, instead of climbing in small spaces). It was a neat experience. Unfortunately due to the continuing rain, we didn’t get to go to any of the outside structures. You need to go online and see more about what this is all about.

Tonight we went to the Arch. We watched a movie about how they built it, which was incredible to watch. (The workers didn’t use any safety harnesses—crazy!) It was a good view of the city, and luckily it wasn’t raining anymore, so we could see pretty far. We went at sunset, so it was nice to see the city lights coming on below us.