Day 6 (Evening) City Museum!

We spent a total of 7 hours here at the City Museum friday night! From 5 to midnight, we had a blast! The City Museum is an old 16 story building that was turned into a giant playground for all ages. There are caves, 10 story slides, a vintage clothing shop with a built in cafe/bar, an aquarium, an old schoolbus that sits on the edge of the building, old airplanes to climb and explore, an old ferris wheel on the roof and so much more!

We started with the caves. There are hundreds of random tunnels and dark caves everywhere imaginable. We found so many *new* tunnels that we didn't see last year when we went. Everywhere you turn there is something fun to explore.

The girls loved the caves. You could climb giant indoor trees connected to tunnels that led you to random caves, there was no end!

Jonathan in one of the tunnels. We were always so surprised when Jonathan fit in all the tunnels. Some were so tight that the *girls* had a hard time squeezing through, let alone a full grown Jonathan! He did it though, every single one.

In the middle of the caves, is a giant pond/pool with about fifty live turtles. Emma and Sophia absolutely LOVE turtles so they spent a lot of time just gazing at how cute they were.

In the turtle cove where you could see them real close.

One of the underground passageways

Emma at the mouth of the giant tree tunnel connected to an elephant.

One of the metal tunnels on the ceiling

There were random rooms like this one that made us feel like we were in the "Department of Mysteries"

Or the "Chamber of Secrets"

Rooms and rooms filled with strange objects

Sophia helping Emma squeeze through a passageway

Sliding out from under a cave tunnel

We made it!

Outdoors was intense because you were climbing giant metal tunnels that led you to slides and planes so high above the ground.

Sophia in one of these tunnels.

That led us to this 10 story slide

another sky tunnel

Jonathan making his way

Another "Sharp Turn" slide

A small glimpse of the museum from the outside. Notice the school bus atop the building.

The "Astronomy Tower"

A steep slide on the roof.

The girls with Jonathan inside the school bus!...

... almost tipping over the building top!

On the rooftop, there was a ferris wheel, and these two giant slides...among many other things. The people climbing up the slide, then just turn around and slide below the area they just hiked.

The view from the rooftop

A giant praying-mantis right before going down the giant slide.

Jonathan and the girls hiking the slide

This is the view from inside the ferris wheel cart

It was an old rickety ferris wheel that went super fast. It was scary at first but we went on several times because it was such a thrill.

On the ferris wheel!

Underneath the giant metal praying-mantis was this huge rope swing...

And of course, seeing as how there is absolutely no unused space at the city museum, you could climb the inside of the dome ceiling! This was the scariest thing for me because you could do nothing but look down at how high you were!

Going down the giant roof slide, for the ... millionth time :)

On the ferris wheel...again. Jonathan and Emma would play like Garth and Wayne (when they wait for the planes to fly over them in the parking lot) in the cart every time it would circle around. They would cry out just like Garth and Wayne every cycle, it was funny. And Emma told me later it helped the ride not be so scary.

Climbing atop giant cellars...

(Through another tunnel) The next morning, we all woke up to find all these tiny bruises on our knees and elbows. It was well worth it! We just wore long skirts the following day :) Including Jonathan.