UK time & The City Museum

Cheryl was definitely still on UK time - I was awoken at about 3:30am which would have been great, except for the fact that I also had hardly any sleep the night before as I was tidying up & decorating in preparation for Cheryl & Beth's arrival. Still, I could hardly complain as it was so nice to see them & to know that this time it wouldn't only be for a week or two!

After trying to get a social number for Cheryl & Beth, I took them to the city museum which is across the road from the social office. It is a 10-storey high building that looks pretty mad from the outside with gutted airplanes, platforms, wire tubes, & a fire engine all three to four storeys up in the air. Cheryl & I both (quite reasonably) though that it would have information about St Louis, but other than some architectural pieces there was nothing. It was just about playing, but there were alot of open spaces with nothing in.

We also went to the aquarium at the museum. This had a clear tube running across the ceiling with an animal in (bit like a small dog, even though it was an aquarium - go figure!). This wasn't particularly pleasant as it looked like there wasn't much space & this animal was just pacing backwards & forwards continually. The aquarium was probably really good when it opened but now it looks a bit 'tired'.

There was a really good art section upstairs where Beth made a really cool tie dyed t-shirt - yes it did have pink in it!. We also made some clay models & cut out some paper snowflakes. These were really cool with the lady showing us how to do it saying how she had been watching a program about this & thought that any shape could be used. Mine was a dragon & it took about 20 minutes to cut out due to all the details - they all looked really cool when they were finished.

The art section was free (except for the t-shirt), & although we had a fun time it cost us neally $60 to get in, which I thought was a bit overpriced for what you got. Apparently, next year there will be a water park on the roof & they are changing the exhibits at the moment, so perhaps it will get better.