
Another pretty cool thing that has developed since making the journey to the Temple each month (see previous blog entry) is the newly found opportunity to actually see bits of Chicago again. As mentioned earlier, the missus and I have not exactly been huge fans of the densely populated metropolis. When we were a bit younger (okay, maybe MORE than a bit...), we would take many a weekend journey out that way to pick up a live concert or comedy show. And there was actually a time when MY own band played out in that general direction. We didn't think much about how irritating the drive was back then. Either the traffic has worsened considerably over the last 20 years or we've just become less tolerant. Or both. I vote for "both."

The Sears Tower
With the exception of about 5-1/2 years, my entire lifetime has been spent 20-40 miles outside of Chicago. And not once in all of that time had I ever ventured into the Tower. And it's been there for quite a while now. But now we're feeling the desire to show these wonderful iconic locations to Su -- and, in the process, also experiencing some of this for the first time. Good fun.

So in we went. After paying an almost criminal amount of money to take the tour, we boarded the elevator and found ourselves at the top of the 110-floor building in seemingly no time at all. Not at all what I expected. Remember the elevator scene in the Blues Brothers movie? The agonizingly slow elevator ride accompanied by "Girl from Ipanema" muzak? Sort of what I was expecting. I'm not sure we were on this thing for more than a minute. Just remarkable.

Anyway, enough about that. Most of you reading have probably already been up in the tower -- perhaps even more than once. So consider us just a little late for the party. The building was completed in 1973. I just wanted to give it about 35 years for the crowds to die down a bit...
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