The Ledge

As an employee working in the Sears Tower (I refuse to call it by the newly changed name, "Willis Tower") we were offered an opportunity to visit the new attraction on the Observation Deck free of charge.

The Ledge is a series of glass bays that extend just more than 4 feet outward from the Sears Tower and let you look 1,353 feet straight down over the city. Here's a picture.

I've always had a slight fear of heights but I just had to put my fears aside and take advantage of this. It was truly a rush taking that first step over the side of the building and onto the glass platform. A journalist in the Tribune captured the emotion perfectly, "being suspended a quarter of a mile in the air with nothing more than three layers of half-inch-thick glass standing between you and a date with your funeral director." Pretty crazy, huh!

Here I am, trying not to freak out!