Day 4 – Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The first location on Tuesday’s agenda was the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower. The Willis Tower is the tallest building in the western hemisphere. It was called the Sears Tower until a year ago. I still want to call it the Sears Tower, mostly because that’s the most popular and recognized name of the tower.
A relatively new feature of the Willis Tower Skydeck is The Ledge. One side of the building’s skydeck has 4 sets of plexiglas boxes protrude out from the building. You can stand on the ledges and find yourself essentially standing over 103 floors of air. I didn’t experience The Ledge. My sisters & mom did, though.
After we left the Willis Tower, we took a taxi down to Chinatown. I’ve never been to NYC or anywhere with a Chinatown so I had no idea what to expect. The ones that had were pretty disappointed. They expected some good deals but over half of the shops were groceries and/or restaurants. All I know is that it was HOT. Some of the shops we went into weren’t even air conditioned.
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