Colleen & Aubrey Take STL Cont.

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St. Louis Part 2!

Saturday we checked out the city museum. I have to say, I'm not a big museum fan but Colleen really wanted to go and promised it would be fun. She kept her promise! It was a lot of fun. The city museum isn't some stuffy boring museum. It is pretty much a giant playground. Younger and smaller kids would have an absolute blast here! Being 5'9" it was very hard to crawl around and fit in a lot of things but it was still a lot of fun. It reminded me a lot of Impressions 5 in Lansing!  We ended up staying for about 3 hours. There is so much to see and do we didn't even do it all in 3 hours! 

The outside of the museum

Hall of mirrors

Hampster wheel

running in circles

It was very hot this day and the museum wasn't air conditioned. So we worked up a sweat! We went up a bunch of stairs to go down the 10 story slide, but the line was so long and it was so hot we decided to skip it and head to the roof top!

10 story slide

At the roof top, you can pretty much climb up the side of the building and end up in this bird cage like thing. We both made out way up, but it wasn't easy. I am usually not claustrophobic, but I have to say I got a little bit freaked out. Regardless, I made it!

Colleen climbing up

The bird cage!

The cage suspended from the ceiling

From the cage, you could go to the rooftop. There was lots to do and many things to climb!

There was even a ball pit!

stuck in the ball pit

I made it out alive!

After the museum, we were hot and exhausted, but we had tickets to go up in the arch at 3:10. So we headed off to get a little snack, then off to the arch!

Of course, we had to take pictures in front of the arch!

A lot of the area around the arch is under construction. It is supposed to be done by the end of next summer! They are making it wheelchair accessible and adding a museum.

Here are some pictures from the top!

Up top was very crowded and after about 5 minutes we had enough and were ready to go,
We headed off to Anehauser-Busch for a brewery tour! They offer free tours about every hour throughout the day, and we made it in time for the 5:30 tour. It was really interesting!

The famous Clydesdale horses

Beer Tanks

 After the tour, you could go to the Biergarten and have a free beer, but since we weren't 21 that wasn't an option. So we headed out! We went back to downtown and had some amazing Thai food and Sen Thai Bistro! I got Cashew Nut Noodles which was a lot like pad Thai. It made me want to go to Thailand even more!

It was a busy day with lots of walking! We walked over 8 miles!

Sunday:

We slept in then headed off to Forest Park to check out the zoo and hammock!
It was super hot Sunday more than 90! Because it was a holiday weekend the park was packed! The zoo was especially crowded and very hot. A lot of the animals were just as hot as us so they weren't very active. We only stayed at the zoo for a little bit and decided we should head out. So we found a place to set up out hammocks and relax for a bit!

Poor Hyena!

After a couple relaxing hours in our hammocks, we headed off towards "The Hill." The Hill is an Italian neighborhood in STL. We had been told we had to get toasted ravioli there, so we took the advice and man was it good! Since it was Sunday a lot of places were closed so we ended up at Mamas at the Hill. We ordered toasted ravioli and fettucini alfredo! Toasted ravioli supposedly was invented in St Louis when a chef accidently dumped ravioli in a deep fryer and discovered it was actually pretty delicious!

And you know we had to get some gelato!

And that pretty much sums out our St. Louis adventures! It was a great vacation! 
Summer school starts tomorrow and my online classes start on Sunday! And only 32 days until I am back home!
Aubrey :)