The Empire...

… State Building is where we went yesterday. We had the day off for the Jom Kippur weekend and the weather was once more beautiful for early October. So we lined up at 9:30 am at the tallest building in New York. Built in 1930 in just 14 months, the skyscraper consists of 10 million bricks, 500 miles of steel and 1,100 miles of telephone cables. The organizational flow was organized such that the steel came directly from the mill and was placed at its destiny while it was still warm. 73 elevators transport the 18,000 daily workers and 3.8 million annual tourists up the building. A weird feeling to go the first 80 floors in just one minute. It feels like a plane is starting. It takes three months for a team to clean all the windows. Though there was no students rebate, the 16 dollars were well invested! The view is amazing and all of a sudden New York seems to be much more under- standable and much smaller. We spent more than an hour up there and just then the wind started to get a little bit chilly and we started our descent. I wonder whether there is a seven summit club for the worlds highest buildings? ;-)