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This trip is designed for kids of all ages! Our morning will be spent at the St Louis Zoo while it is cooler and the animals are more active and then we will move to the City Museum for our afternoon. Lunch will be on your own at the Zoo or you are welcome to bring a sack lunch to eat as we travel between them. A fast food dinner stop will be made on the way home.
FEATURES: St Louis Zoo - This world renowned, 90-acre zoo is home to more than 16,000 animals; many of them are rare and endangered. The Saint Louis Zoo is dedicated to connecting people to animals. At Michael and Quirsis Riney Primate Canopy Trails, take a journey from the forest floor, through a see-through tunnel, and up into the treetops on an elevated boardwalk to see monkeys and lemurs in their enriching and engaging state-of-the-art outdoor homes and play areas. Meet Huckleberry and Finley, two grizzly bear siblings at Centene Grizzly Ridge. At McDonnell Polar Bear Point, visitors can see polar bear Kali in this state-of-the-art habitat that includes underwater views. Penguin and Puffin Coast offers an underwater view of these oceanic birds. Judy and Jerry Kent Family Sea Lion Sound is a 1.5 acre exhibit right in the heart of the Zoo. Visitors can walk through an underwater tunnel into the seal and sea lions’ habitat to see the animals swimming all around them. The Sea Lion Show (in season) showcases sea lion behavior, animal fun facts and the need for conserving the sea lions’ ocean habitat. This is the perfect place for family fun. • City Museum - Housed in the 600,000 sq. ft. former International Shoe Company, the museum is an eclectic mixture of children’s playground, fun house, surrealistic pavilion and architectural marvel made out of unique, found objects. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed artist Bob Cassilly, a classically trained sculptor and serial entrepreneur, the museum opened for visitors in 1997 to the riotous approval of young and old alike. Cassilly and his longtime crew of 20 artisans have constructed the museum from the very stuff of the city and, as a result, it has urban roots deeper than any other institutions’. Reaching no farther than municipal borders for its reclaimed building materials, City Museum boasts features such as old chimneys, salvaged bridges, construction cranes, miles of tile and even two abandoned planes!
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