Whatchu talkin about Willis Tower

On Friday, I did something that only I, the ~74,000 other people in line with me, and a few others will ever be able to do.

I looked straight down from the top of the Sears Tower.

Let me explain why this is so exceptional.

You see: the Sears Tower is about to change its name to the Willis Tower due to a change in ownership.

Before the name change, however, the tower has just this past week opened up a new tourist attraction which immediately got our attention. They've built these clear pods that stick out of the side of the building so that you can walk out into them and look straight down 1,300 feet to the street below.

You'll notice them in this photo just a little below the very top of the building. They look like little off-color growths:

And again here, you kind of want to ask your dermatologist to freeze them off.
They've done experiments with crawling infants to see if they will crawl off the edge of a table onto reinforced clear plastic to get to their mother.

The question with adults is not what it would take to lure them onto this ledge but what is the maximum price they would pay for the privilege to do so*.What I didn't think of until it was too late: I was wearing a skirt. Whoops!
Most people who venture out into these clear pods of near certain death will do so in the Willis Tower. We, and the thousands of others who went over this past weekend, will be the privileged few to have done so in the Sears Tower.

Also, we learned that the Sears-soon-to-be-Willis Tower is washed entirely by robots.

Afterward, in spite of having seen very clearly from the top of the tower that it was a scene of oppressive crowds and limited shade, we went to The Taste and stuffed our bellies with food.


*$15 if you want to wait 3-4 hours, $30 if you want the "Fast Pass" which whisks you to the top in a mere hour and a half.