We spent long enough drive-by sightseeing that I know this much: we could live in St. Louis. What a beautiful city. Let's hit the highlights of our time in St. Louis, shall we?
We happened to be in St. Louis on the 4th of July. With everything canceled, we decided to make the most of our hotel-bound July 4. We supplied our hotel room with a bunch of sandwiches from Panera Bread, a variety of different sodas, and pretty much all the cheesecake that The Cheesecake Factory had to offer. Then, we packed ourselves around a TV to, for the first time in our history as a family, watch a fireworks show on TV rather than in person. At one point, our 11-year-old grabbed the iPad and created a pretty fantastic fireworks show for all of us to watch, complete with sound effects (turn on your sound when viewing the masterpiece below). Love that kid.
"Thanks for coming. Good news: you've pretty much got the whole place to yourselves today."
Those words were music to our ears as we arrived, because we we knew that even the slightest crowd would likely keep us from entering.
I'll say this about City Museum: we've traveled quite a few weird places in our life, sometimes purposefully, sometimes not; and, I can confidently say that City Museum is near the top of the list of weirdest places we've visited. And, we loved it. Take the art below for example. How does this even happen? My mind simply does not work this way, but I love that someone else's does.
"Let's see here....what art supplies to I have laying around? Well, I've got a bunch of industrial screws, a couple zippers, a bunch of old watch bands, and a couple cool looking rocks. This will make a cool looking bat!"
Bravo, Mr. or Ms. eccentric artist. I would've thrown this stuff in the garbage. In fact, I probably have at some point.
The entire place was full of art like this.
If you have the chance to visit St. Louis, you simply must visit the City Museum along with the Gateway Arch and Museum. Fantastic. Oh, and I did manage to drop off some Struggle Bus books at a couple local bookstores. I hope you enjoy my book, St. Louis.
On to the next stop: Springfield, MO.