St. Louis Sights

We stopped by St.Louis on our way to visit my Missouri (formerly Chicago) niece. I knew St. Louis had an arch but I didn’t know anything about it so I was surprised to find out it was designed by Saarinen, the tulip table guy, and that Alexander Girard was part of the design team.

Our main reason for stopping in St. Louis was to go to the amazing City Museum. It is hard to even describe how much is going on there – incredible climbing structures, salvaged building elements, artistic creations, and even the largest pencil in the world. Of course, I took pictures of some of the mermaids.

I didn’t take any pictures of the architectural elements, but I had to snap a picture of Big Boy since I used to work at a Big Boy restaurant and even dressed up as him for Halloween once.

The room with the largest pencil also included a pencil collection.

I didn’t do much climbing, but I did venture into the school bus that was sticking out of the top of the building.

We also found ourselves at Union Station where there were some hungry koi fish and a heron.

There are many more sights in St. Louis that I’d like to see, so I think we need to plan another trip.