Chicago Day 3:

Our last day in Chicago, we decided that we wanted to take the kids up in the Willis(Sears)Tower. So we went and got our ticket for the" L" and rode that over to the Tower. The kids had a lot of fun riding on different modes of transportation that weekend.
Once we got there it took us riding in 4 elevators till we finally reached the 103rd floor. The kids loved being up so high and looking at all the Sky Scrappers and trying to find different things out each of the windows. Besides the name changing at the Tower. Other things have changed too,since me and James had been there 12 years ago. You now go up 4 floors higher and they have the glass ledge's where you can walk out and look down and all around you. I thought i wouldn't have problem with it, but i soon found out i was wrong. Once i looked down and tried to take that first step, it was not happening. Zane on the other hand had no problem, just like his easy, happy go lucky, self he walked right out there and was walking and looking around on it. James was the next one out there and he was having a little difficulty to with that first step.But nothing like me,Landon and Ariel. I did how ever decided that i needed to buck up and go out there. So i turned around and backed out onto it. I did not look down or around or anything. I just looked straight at the camera and nothing else. I did manage to get Landon out there and he did the same thing as me. However Ariel was different she just sat there playing with Tori her American girl doll and was not having anything to do with it. It was fun and excitingly scary all at one time.
But as we were getting ready to end our time there, i first had to make a quick restroom run before we left. When i got back I saw the boys,but no James or Ariel. So i was just getting ready to ask the boys where they were. when i noticed James with the camera over by one of the ledges. Wouldn't you know it. There Ariel was with Tori sitting down on the Ledge. So even though in all the excitement we did not get a family picture out on one of the Ledges, we did manage all to over come our fear and go out onto them. We did get some pictures just not the family one. Who knows maybe next time i might even look down.
So after our exhilarating ride to the top of the Tower we decided to catch a Tac-ski as Zane calls it and go down to our final stop before home The Museum of Science and Industry. We had a great time there brief but great we are thinking that we may go back up for the day just to go to the Museum and then come back home.Because of not spending a lot of time there. But the kids did like what they saw and were able to do.
After the fun there we went down and grabbed some subs from subway and went and waited at the train station for our ride back to the airport. When the train finally came we ended up standing for most of the trip home, the kids were troopers though and Zane ended up sitting and falling asleep on the floor. He was just plum tuckered out:) But we finally made it back to the airport and to our car and we then made our way back home. The kids are already asking when we can go back. It was a great time spent as a family and it was just nice to get away.