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Finally got a chance to go there, what an incredibly awesome place that is. I wore myself out, today I'm still feeling it. I went out for a run when I got back home and I couldn't figure out what the hell I was so sore from. Then I remembered - oh yeah.

First thing we did when we got there was to here some guy putting our bands on telling us to have fun, try stuff, but stay away from the 10 story slide because you have to climb and crawl and what not through placed to get there. That was the first place we went. We climbed and crawled and slid our way all through that place.

I'm 51 in my body, I'm still only 10 in my brain. It was a freaking blast.

Who thinks of stuff like this?

My daughter and I go there at least once a year, just the two of us. I can barely keep up. Adults are at a severe disadvantage there. I've gotten a few good knocks on the noggin in those caves. A good test of clausterphobia on the inside stuff. The cages are not bad though. I've taken all of the out of town nephews/nieces over the years.

You must have hit it at a good time -when it's overcrowded, or lousy with day camp armies and their panicked parents or volunteers - it can suck.

Did you get to the roof?

You may have heard us mention Cassilly who built the place and died while working on his next project CementLand

It is more or less the coolest thing I've seen anywhere in the world so far.

Roof was closed. When we got there (2:30) there were way too many children. I wish there weren't so many children in the place. But by 3:30 it cleared out quite a bit. I did hit my head several times, did get a little claustrophobic at a spot or two, and pulled a glute climbing through that tunnel that goes from the plane to some other part. I'll be honest - I panicked a little bit. It started swaying, I've got a slight issue with heights, and I realized just how [expletive] high up in the air I was and that tunnel was pretty small. At the apex I decided to switch from crawling to going feet first, and did something to my leg. I realized what the knee pads were all about up there, I didn't have any and tore my knees up.

jim wrote: Who thinks of stuff like this?

Bob Cassilly.

among other things, stopped a mentally ill man from completely destroying Michelangelo's Pieta


also, didn't believe in wearing hard hat or seatbelt while zipping around on his bulldozer.Thus, he is dead.

I'm glad I wasn't aware of his issues on safety as I was climbing through that tunnel suspended 5 stories above the ground.

City Museum rocks. I've taken our kids there 2 or 3 times over the past 10 years. They love it. I love it. Wonderful attraction.

jim wrote:I'm glad I wasn't aware of his issues on safety as I was climbing through that tunnel suspended 5 stories above the ground.

I love the place as well though don't go like I once did since the kid is now 13. But he believed in safety like the foreman of a third world demolition crew believes in safety. Neighbor of mine who worked at City Museum was doing demo work for him at Cementland as a side gig. Her attire was Chuck Taylor's, skinny black jeans and a doo rag. She told me that on a couple of occasions her co workers fell through holes in roof of abandoned plant building landing a floor below. Of course no one reported anything because they worshipped the guy.

We took the kids last summer. Loved it. I want to go back without the kids, because there's tons of cool stuff there that the kids weren't patient enough to partake in.