Shawn has a few things on a list that he wants to do in Chicago...now that we're moving in a couple of months we decided we better start doing those things. One of those things was to go up to the observation deck in the Sears Tower (which is now known as the Willis Tower). Thursday we decided to head downtown for the afternoon. It was a beautiful day! We walked around looking up at all the tall buildings like total tourists! The observation deck in on the 103rd floor of the building, but you start 2 floors below the ground floor, so the elevator ride was really up 105 floors in 60 seconds! My ears were crazy popping! The have a relatively new thing in the observation deck with full glass boxes that extend from the building so you are able to look straight down below your feet at the river and buildings below.
Shawn got a video of me when I was first walking out on the ledge...it is a pretty strange feeling to stand on a piece of glass when you know you're 103 stories above the ground! I commented that Mimi would be having a heart attack, which is the truth! There were a bunch of small kids there with a school trip and they weren't afraid at all! They were jumping on the glass and laying on it. Kids aren't afraid of anything these days!
After we left the Willis Tower, we walked a bit to find a Lou Malnati's Pizzaria. Our favorite pizza in Chicago! We are both going to miss Lou's, but luckily you can have froze Lou's shipped anywhere in the country. I don't think it's exactly the same, but we'll just have to make sure we eat Lou's everytime we come to visit Dad. So Dad, at least you know we'll be coming to visit you ;)
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