St. Louis - Trip day 4
After chatting with thatames last night, and discovering the St. Louis City Museum, we decided to press on out of Chicago right away and head down here to hit it on Saturday, when it's open till 1am.
Oh man, was it SO WORTH IT OMG.
First, check out their site. http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp
The caves are OMG SO FUCKING COOL. There's all sorts of crawly places, and sculptured bits, and wire pieces, and stuff that goes up and stuff that goes down, and stuff that's lit and stuff that's dark, and strobe lights and slides and OMG it's like a playground, but big people can go in there too! There were some spots I couldn't fit in, and more spots my mate couldn't fit in... I went first, and then I'd know if he could fit through. It turns out I can fit through much smaller spaces than I would have thought. I initially had some serious claustrophobia, but ended up crawling through leeeeetle itty bitty spaces in the dark. I took a bunch of pictures, a lot of which seem to have turned out okay, and several of which I figured out what the walls looked like by using the flash. A couple of rooms, it was too dark to tell what the walls looked like, but I took a flash picture, and lo and behold, there were sculptures! So the pictures don't entirely give you an idea how dark it was in there (really dark in most of it), but it gives some idea of the complexity and intrigue of the place.
Some of the museum was shut down for two wedding receptions, so we didn't get to see it all, but heck, the caves alone were SO WORTH THE MONEY AND EFFORT to get there. We spent over 3 hours there, and most of it was the caves.
We saw the Bob's Beatnik.. um... whatever it is, it's all set up like a carny area. That was kinda trippy, actually. There were random, made up sideshow type attractions, and some really old (WORKING) arcade machines. I was instructed to take pictures of these for my mate. Apparently he likes pinball way more than I knew. He played a few games with the quarters we had on us.
I even went into the outside climbing bit a little. It's way high off the ground in a way that the inside didn't feel like. (I'm sure I was just as high on the inside, but I couldn't TELL, and that's the important part.) I didn't climb through any of the little curly slinky pipe things, cause they were waaaayyy too high up there, I climbed through a few similar ones on the inside, but NOT on the outside. I got as high as the middle of the castle tower thing, but that was it. I took a couple pictures to prove I got up that high, and then made a retreat for the ground.
We made it back to the caves for some more crawling, picture taking (we found statues with boooobs), exploring, etc, before we left.
We're both sore and scraped in dozens of places, and he has bumps on his head, but it was SO WORTH IT.
It would be the coolest place ever for our Torchwood crew to go. Maybe if we all get out to Cardiff some day, on the way out to England, we can stop in St. Louis... Guys, seriously, it's so much fucking fun. And tons of your pups would love it.
It was fun for Jack and the Doctor, but it suffered from a decided lack of monsters. Don't let them ever tell you otherwise, they like that rush.
We had some serious trouble finding a place to stay. We stopped at four or five different hotels before we found a place with room. It's more expensive than we've been paying, at 110 bucks, but oh well. It's a bed. And it had to happen eventually. Still, did it have to happen on my turn? (We've been taking turns each day with who covers the room.) The lady at the front desk asked me about four hundred times if I was 21. I AM OVER TWENTY ONE THANK YOU. She also wanted to make a big deal out of "how far from home" we were. None of your business. Give me the damn room.
We ate at Jack in the Box. We don't have those in NY. They have bacon cheddar potato wedges, and they are gooood. They're like Friday's potato skins, only in a different shape. Slightly worried how my stomach's going to handle all this fast food... but I have Pepto Bismol in the car, at least...
Anyway, St. Louis City Museum: AWESOME. Stop there if you EVER can. OMG. THANK YOU thatames!!! I never would have known otherwise!
We're planning on hitting the zoo tomorrow. Especially since we didn't do the zoos in Chicago. I was feeling bad about that yesterday, but OMG SO WORTH IT. And it was exercise! That was nice.
Hopefully the rain won't continue to follow us tomorrow at the zoo. If anyone sees on the news rain in some unlikely western deserty place, that's where we are. Apparently we can't escape the rain.
Oh man, was it SO WORTH IT OMG.
First, check out their site. http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp
The caves are OMG SO FUCKING COOL. There's all sorts of crawly places, and sculptured bits, and wire pieces, and stuff that goes up and stuff that goes down, and stuff that's lit and stuff that's dark, and strobe lights and slides and OMG it's like a playground, but big people can go in there too! There were some spots I couldn't fit in, and more spots my mate couldn't fit in... I went first, and then I'd know if he could fit through. It turns out I can fit through much smaller spaces than I would have thought. I initially had some serious claustrophobia, but ended up crawling through leeeeetle itty bitty spaces in the dark. I took a bunch of pictures, a lot of which seem to have turned out okay, and several of which I figured out what the walls looked like by using the flash. A couple of rooms, it was too dark to tell what the walls looked like, but I took a flash picture, and lo and behold, there were sculptures! So the pictures don't entirely give you an idea how dark it was in there (really dark in most of it), but it gives some idea of the complexity and intrigue of the place.
Some of the museum was shut down for two wedding receptions, so we didn't get to see it all, but heck, the caves alone were SO WORTH THE MONEY AND EFFORT to get there. We spent over 3 hours there, and most of it was the caves.
We saw the Bob's Beatnik.. um... whatever it is, it's all set up like a carny area. That was kinda trippy, actually. There were random, made up sideshow type attractions, and some really old (WORKING) arcade machines. I was instructed to take pictures of these for my mate. Apparently he likes pinball way more than I knew. He played a few games with the quarters we had on us.
I even went into the outside climbing bit a little. It's way high off the ground in a way that the inside didn't feel like. (I'm sure I was just as high on the inside, but I couldn't TELL, and that's the important part.) I didn't climb through any of the little curly slinky pipe things, cause they were waaaayyy too high up there, I climbed through a few similar ones on the inside, but NOT on the outside. I got as high as the middle of the castle tower thing, but that was it. I took a couple pictures to prove I got up that high, and then made a retreat for the ground.
We made it back to the caves for some more crawling, picture taking (we found statues with boooobs), exploring, etc, before we left.
We're both sore and scraped in dozens of places, and he has bumps on his head, but it was SO WORTH IT.
It would be the coolest place ever for our Torchwood crew to go. Maybe if we all get out to Cardiff some day, on the way out to England, we can stop in St. Louis... Guys, seriously, it's so much fucking fun. And tons of your pups would love it.
It was fun for Jack and the Doctor, but it suffered from a decided lack of monsters. Don't let them ever tell you otherwise, they like that rush.
We had some serious trouble finding a place to stay. We stopped at four or five different hotels before we found a place with room. It's more expensive than we've been paying, at 110 bucks, but oh well. It's a bed. And it had to happen eventually. Still, did it have to happen on my turn? (We've been taking turns each day with who covers the room.) The lady at the front desk asked me about four hundred times if I was 21. I AM OVER TWENTY ONE THANK YOU. She also wanted to make a big deal out of "how far from home" we were. None of your business. Give me the damn room.
We ate at Jack in the Box. We don't have those in NY. They have bacon cheddar potato wedges, and they are gooood. They're like Friday's potato skins, only in a different shape. Slightly worried how my stomach's going to handle all this fast food... but I have Pepto Bismol in the car, at least...
Anyway, St. Louis City Museum: AWESOME. Stop there if you EVER can. OMG. THANK YOU thatames!!! I never would have known otherwise!
We're planning on hitting the zoo tomorrow. Especially since we didn't do the zoos in Chicago. I was feeling bad about that yesterday, but OMG SO WORTH IT. And it was exercise! That was nice.
Hopefully the rain won't continue to follow us tomorrow at the zoo. If anyone sees on the news rain in some unlikely western deserty place, that's where we are. Apparently we can't escape the rain.