Home again home again, jiggity jig!

Were back from the Far reaches of the Midwest! (where we went to visit my folks and my sister, and BiL and Adorable Nephew.)

This time we actually went *into* St Louis to see some sights. One of the things that we went too was the really really really cool St. Louis City Museum" It really made me want to be 10 years old and 4' feet tall. Really. see the pictures!

A flickr pool of still *more* photos of this place

If i had been me at 10, I would have gone insane here, and my folks would have had to troll the whole huge place for *hours* to find me, because i would not have wanted to come out.

Partly kids playground, partly arts & performance space, partly aquarium, and all just a bit weird. Fab.

Sadly we got kicked out by a false fire alarm (a sensor got wet) about 2 hours into roaming about the joint, at which time the Adorable nephew & his Grand parents had had their fill, so they went back to the house, and J & I went with my sister to the st. Louis science museum to check out an exhibit on animatrionic special effects, which was also nifty. We also drove around the very large park, which hand many many fine facilitates including a large art museum.

All in all a fine time was had ....

Faire stuff alert

As we're trying to slim down the sheer amounts of worldly goods we don't use...

anyone with a hankering to acquire commemorative MDRF mugs should be certain to attend the Prepare for faire Sale, as 3ravensringo & i are donating almost a dozen mugs to the sale, some of them so old they have *no* year markings, (IE: pre 1990) and some are the numbered limited edition mugs that are so large, you'll have to do some fancy talking to get the barkeeps to sell you enough adult beverage to fill'em. *G*

Other things will likely be headed that way as i get time to sift thru 20 years of accumulated faire stuff...