Busy Mom Chronicles: Family Adventure Saturday at City Museum St Louis

Weekends are always a hectic time for our household, but whenever the moment presents itself, I do my best to find ways to combine scheduled events with something fun.

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Case in point, my oldest son was scheduled to perform at City Museum St Louis a few Saturdays ago, and since all other family events had to be postponed due to a last-minute change in my husband’s schedule, I decided to make the most of our time at the Museum with the kids.

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First up was taking in my son’s band performance. In the spirit of Halloween, they performed one of my all-time favorites:

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After the performance was over, we were all set to head indoors for our Saturday adventure!

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There are a ton of things to do at City Museum St Louis—both inside and out. It has many levels of activities—there’s even an operable ferris wheel on the rooftop!

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There is also a plane suspended in the air to explore as well as a school bus dangling off the edge of the roof, but we stayed away from those (for now)!

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One inside, the design is spectacular:

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The ceiling of the museum–gorgeous! 

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As awesome as everything looks, my youngest was apprehensive at first!

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We checked out some of the sculptures of creatures there

 

Very beautiful!  

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The youngest was a little afraid of some of the creatures!

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And then, for the real adventure: exploring the caves and tunnels.

 

The tunnels started off bright, colorful…and suspended in the air throughout the museum!

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…But then, we reached the ‘caves’ and other tunnels of the museum (this sign was waiting for us there–maybe we should have turned around!)

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That’s my leg in the shot — yes, we 1st had to go…..down THERE (Heaven help us!!) LOL

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It was super dark in the caves — Lady T said it reminded her of the movie National Treasure! LOL

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.Then, we had to crawl through lots of tunnels like this

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…and this

 

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…and this!! (!!!)
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We were beginning to wonder if we were ever going to make it out! LOL
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We made it out — Yay!

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We all had a really great time—and we made it out of the day without any bumps or bruises (or in my case, aches and pains! LOL).  I love that the activities at City Museum St Louis are ones that parents can take part in and enjoy just as much (if not more) than the kids. I must admit that we don’t get a chance to visit there often, but when we do, it is always a memorable experience for everyone!

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