3rd Tallest Tower in the World

Sears Tower
This pictures has been too long overdue.. we went to downtown Chicago about 2 weeks back, just before Padma leave to Europe on that Saturday evening. We rushed to downtown to catch the glimpse of the 3rd tallest building in the world - the SEARS TOWER.

Three of us (Padma, Sumeet, and myself) left about 12 noon from the Country Inn hotel, and went straight via I55 into town. I've assigned Sumeet as our official navigator - and you know what, my navigator says.. I just don't know how to read maps.. we can ask people, and since we're going to the tallest tower, can't we just look at the Tower and drive towards it??

That's exactly what we did. I drove the car towards to Tower. Everytime we're not heading towards it, we make sure we take the street turns going nearer it.
Interestingly, in town, there's some really nice sight, and whenever we past some really nice garden, Padma would say.. STOP here.. i want to take pictures of that nice tulips!

Anyway, we found the Tower, park our car just about 5 mins down the road, and took lotsa pictures of the streets.

We decided to go up the tower to view the entire Chicago city.

Here's me with Padma up on the Skydeck. Nice big picture of the Tower.
The lines was quite long up the deck, overall it was nice. Costed us US11.95 each.
The Petronas Twin Tower should charge people going up the bridge.




Below pic, yet again is Sumeet, standing as tall as the Tower.


I wanted to put Padma's pic here, but he had deleted it from his laptop. So Padma, you can upload yours yourself I guess.

Time was really short, Padma need to catch a flight to Germany later in the evening, and we've planned to leave the city by 4pm. I remembered looking at the watch, we left about 4:05pm from the roadside, but we got lost in town trying to get into the I55 highway (we finally got on it at 4:50pm - Padma was furious at us!). Straight zoom back to Country Inn.

Bye-bye to Padma.