I Can See For Miles...

We are now a thousand feet over Manhattan. The sun is finally visible now that there are no other buildings hiding us in shadows. If anything the streets are more impressive from this height since you still cannot see their full length through the city.

Oddly enough the tower doesn't sway. You can get sea sick on the top of the Sears Tower, but the Empire States Building is rock solid. We were also outside walking around the ESB instead of in a glass enclosure. Ultimately, the ESB was the better experience.

The return trip down is a bit rough. They have multiple elevators going up to the observation deck, but only 1 going down. There is a 30 minute wait to go down 6 floors where you meet up with the more efficient express elevators. Normally we would have had to wait, but we had the sleeping baby.

To our personal elevator!