In fact, Connor said that he wishes that we would move to St. Louis, so that we could go to the Magic House everyday. He proclaimed that St. Louis is the best city in the country, and that St. Louis is better than Washington D.C., and therefore St. Louis should be the capital. Bonus points for St. Louis.
But, back to the Magic House. We spent an entire day there, from open to close, and we didn't get to do or see everything there. The place is huge.
This photo was taken in the area for the littlest kids. Do you see the small black squares behind the boys? Those are actually little openings to tunnels that the boys were climbing around inside. It was some sort of little tunnel maze. I was way too big to go inside it, but the boys loved it.
Connor and Lex climbed to the top of Jack's Beanstalk. It was three stories high, and there was a twisting staircase that surrounded it that I used to follow them up to the top. Connor had no problems with it at all, and Lex climbed up really well. It wasn't until Lex got to the very top and then had to climb down about 4 leaves to get out that he had trouble. But, we talked him through it, and he made it out.
Mount Rushmore. Built from Legos.
We need to go see Mount Rushmore in real life, I've decided. Also, this thing was very solidly constructed, because the first thing Lex did when he saw it was try to pull off a nose. Thankfully he was unsuccessful. I imagine that someone glued it all together before putting it in a Children's Museum. I mean, right? My kid couldn't have been the first to try that.
At the construction site.
There was a full size construction site with all sorts of kid-friendly building materials and tools. We played in this area for probably an hour. We used the foam blocks to build some brick walls, we used tools to attach nuts and bolts to wheels, and we scooped up gravel and poured it out and carried it around in wheelbarrows.
Inside a replica of the Oval Office.
All the phones found inside the Magic House could call the other phones in different areas. It was neat because you would pick up the phone if it was ringing and another kid would be there talking to you.
Throughout the whole place there were these little mouse doors, and inside each one was a little mouse scene that related to the area that we were in. Connor was super excited each time he found another one.
Mouse Sized Oval Office
Replica of the Liberty Bell. We need to go see this in real life, too.
I thought that these flags were very interesting. They are from different points in our nation's history. The fact that the flag didn't always have 50 stars on it seemed to be a little abstract for the kids, though. Or maybe not abstract, but they just didn't seem to care much about it.
Connor's favorite area may have been the St. Louis Rams Training Center.
Replica of Locker Room
Virtual Field Goal Kicking Game
Lex is a little small for that jersey
Come to think of it, the jersey was a bit big on Connor, too.
There were so many other things there that we saw and did. There was an electrostatic generator that made our hair stand up. There was a super slide that twisted down three stories of the museum so that you didn't have to go down the stairs. The kids did that over and over. They climbed up three flights of stairs to get to the top, slid down, and then climbed back up again.
There was an entire little village there, with a grocery store, post office, hospital, library, pizza shop, bank, vet office and a bunch of other things. Connor worked in a car shop for a long time, doing repairs to a car per work orders that he found on the workbench in the shop. Lex fished in the pond and then took the fish upriver to release them again. There was a treehouse they could climb in. Lex loved the vet's office, and he took care of a ton of the little stuffed dogs and cats that were in the kennels there. My favorite was the bank, because they had safes that you could try to open by trying to crack the code. I got the three digit code one opened, and the four digit one, even though it took longer. I didn't get the five digit one open until I looked at the clues that eliminated a ton of possible combinations. But when I got each one opened, Connor was super impressed. Now he thinks his mom can crack any safe.
There aren't photos of all of these things because I was too busy playing with the kids to take photos of what we were up to. It was fun! I would definitely go back again.
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