We left the motel mid morning and drove through a few interesting small towns on the way to our first major stop of the day: Maramec Caverns. It was nice and cool inside the caverns, so we signed up for an hour long tour. Of course, I took a bunch of pictures inside the caverns! The formations were fascinating. By the time we left the caverns, it was early afternoon, and very hot and humid outside. If the weather had been cooler, we would have considered camping near the caverns. Instead we got back in our car and headed to St. Louis.
In St. Louis (on the Missouri side) we drove around town, hitting the city at the same time as the baseball traffic. We looked at the arch and admired many of the old historic buildings in town. We ended up at the City Museum, probably the most fascinating hands-on museum I have ever seen! It was constructed inside and out of an old warehouse. The museum had tubes of wire and steel along with steps connescted to old airplanes that people would climb to. Inside it was like a never ending maize of tunnels and contraptions leading from one area to the next. Some of the sections were much too small for Rainy and I to climb through. How I wish this museum had been built when Rainy was young and we lived in Illinois, we would have traveled to spend the day there!
The museum even stayed open late into the night so as the sun started to set there were fewer young kids and more young adults climbing around and having fun. The experienced City Museum goers came equipped with knee pads and climbing gloves! It was one of the few museums I have seen where you could purchase beer and candy from the same vendor. It was evening when we left, so we found a somewhat questionable motel on the Illinois side of St. Louis to spend the night. At least we had a bed and shelter.
In St. Louis (on the Missouri side) we drove around town, hitting the city at the same time as the baseball traffic. We looked at the arch and admired many of the old historic buildings in town. We ended up at the City Museum, probably the most fascinating hands-on museum I have ever seen! It was constructed inside and out of an old warehouse. The museum had tubes of wire and steel along with steps connescted to old airplanes that people would climb to. Inside it was like a never ending maize of tunnels and contraptions leading from one area to the next. Some of the sections were much too small for Rainy and I to climb through. How I wish this museum had been built when Rainy was young and we lived in Illinois, we would have traveled to spend the day there!
The museum even stayed open late into the night so as the sun started to set there were fewer young kids and more young adults climbing around and having fun. The experienced City Museum goers came equipped with knee pads and climbing gloves! It was one of the few museums I have seen where you could purchase beer and candy from the same vendor. It was evening when we left, so we found a somewhat questionable motel on the Illinois side of St. Louis to spend the night. At least we had a bed and shelter.
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