The City Museum in STL

The City Museum has one of the most misleading names ever. This place is nothing close to being a museum, and I think that Paige's co-workers that recommended it to us owe us our $10 back. It definitely had the potential to be cool, if you removed all the kids and tweens running around, climbing through the walls and "hiding" in the caves and dark places. Awkward. It was really like a big play place in a huge old factory. The very first thing we came to was a tree slide made of the chair backs of old wooden school desks, potentially greased with the "new noncaloric silicone-based kitchen lubricant" that Clark Griswold used on his metal saucer in Christmas Vacation. Sooze - the one that always falls - decided to go first, clearly not her best idea. But the fact that Paige decided to try it after watching Sooze may be the best part of it all. She may have given herself a concussion, and we were all nervous to let her go to sleep that night.

Kim and I were clearly the smart ones that decided to be done with the slide, but don't worry we managed to hurt ourselves on another random item in this place. There was a massive hamster wheel type thing that we decided we could handle. Wrong. Here is the short slideshow of how this one went down.

I believe this is when Kim started yelling at me to make it stop. How am I supposed to know how to work a hamster wheel?

Then we just collapsed because we didn't know how to make it stop.

And then we laid there laughing and in so much pain. I just remember later saying that I was pretty sure my knee was split open and bleeding. But don't worry I still had my little flashlight in hand. Thank God!

WHAT a bad idea!