Wrong Museum, but got it figured out.

 So, as I am "Mother of the Year" I decided to take my kids to the much talked about St. Louis' children's museum. Ms. Music Teacher and I have been talking about taking  the boys there since our trip to Sturgis. She thought the boys would love it. My Wichita BF went to the Magic House, Children's Museum, St. Louis over spring break before she came to my house. I put the two together and thought I just HAD to take my boys....so we get out of school on Friday and head straight to the Magic House in St. Louis. The website says it is open until midnight. Due to the time change we are going to make it by 5 and have SIX hours of pure joy. We pull up to the Magic House and I realize due to the traffic something is going on---on the entrance door it says " No remittance on Family Free Nights." OH NO. Every brother and their kid is here....ahhhhhhh.

I asked at the front desk where their ball pit and outdoor slides are. They tell me the website shows old pictures. Their slides are inside now. (WHAT? Ms. Music Teacher told me there was a 10 story slide? The one in here is like not even a story??!?!?)We stayed for all of 1.5 hours and we were out.
We have been to seven children's museums across the nation, and my boys were totally over the seen of rude children and parents on cell phones. We left ONLY to discover we were at the WRONG PLACE. We showed up to the hotel to find Ms. Music Teacher (she is the reason we went to St. Louis--her choir kids were having a choir weekend and we were her groupies!) and she asked me what is this Magic House you speak of? I thought you were going to go to City Museum. Arg. So, the boys and I grab a quick bite, say hello to Ms. Music Teacher and hop back into the car to go to this 'City Museum.' WELL WORTH IT. OMG! City Museum, St. Louis, MO is AH-mazing! We had such a good time.

It is only $10 after 9 p.m. Kids have to be with an 18 year old as it turns into a social date scene for adults. It is like a McDonald's Play PLACE ON CRACK. There are tunnels and wire cages and stuff everywhere. There were places I was pretty sure my buns were going to get stuck and the boys were going to push me through. I felt kinda like this....

It was so cool. I'm glad we went Friday Night. Since I had already won the 'Mother of the Year' award once this evening, I went for twice! I looked at my watch and it said 11:45. They close at midnight and I was hot, tired, sweaty and ready to be done with the tunnels. I told the boys it was time to go. I no more than sit my chubby buns in the car than I look at the dash and realize we left an HOUR before we needed to. Sigh. I asked the boys if they wanted to go back in, but after looking at how tired they were (IT WAS 11:45 our time....) it was okay to leave. J-Bird was asleep within 10 minutes and I had to carry him into the hotel.

We went from LAME-O Magic House to this!

A straight 2 story drop. Yep, I did it too!

Wire tunnels connecting the airplanes.
We are every bit of 5 stories in MID freakin'
air. Obe Wan and I did as much as we could without
wetting our pants. J-Bird did it all!

Huge Ball pit. I watched.

He was LOVING this place. Half monkey this
kid is.

I will probably have to post more pictures as we had such a good time. These are the few pictures I took with my cell phone.