Burnham help to design the city of Chicago. This started in 1906 and of course is now one of the biggest and most important cities of the United States, that is currently trending to become a megacity. I really like this and think that the importance of starting from the lake front and working out from there. While I have never actually been to Chicago I have always really wanted to. 

In Niagara Falls (Canada side) there is a building called the Skyline tower that resembles the Seattle space needle. While this isn’t quite exactly that this is incredibly tall, and provides one of the best views I have ever got to experience in my life. While the base is nothing impressive you get in the elevator and ride it up and it is facing the Niagara Falls and then whenever you get up top you can see the beautiful falls from the restaurant. While this tower helps show off an amazing view itself is an impressive building and I truly find fascinating. As a young kid when I came, I was terribly afraid of heights and I still couldn’t tell you why but that elevator ride helped me get over my fear. I still like the building and if I could relive one of my trips and see something over again, it would be this.

While it definitely doesn’t look like a whole lot this building has influenced me a lot. When driving in Kansas City any time make sure you try out Oklahoma Joe’s or now as it is called just Joe’s. Like stated earlier in a blog I traveled a lot with my grandparents and while driving through the KC area we were told to go to this great BBQ place and so we did and in doing so we waited for an hour and half to get our food. After we got through the door we looked around and could see the proof on the walls that we were getting good food, there was so many articles stating how many people had come and been blown away by this food. After trying this food from this building I had become obsessed with grilling out and trying to meet the same type of standard of food that many expected of this place. Little did I know that the BBQ from that would lead to so many more days of me trying to duplicate. To this day I can still see it in my mind and thinking how it wasn’t gonna be that good but coming to realize how to not judge the inside and what could come from a building that wasn’t up to my standards.

Whenever I was younger and had more time, my grandparents took me on various trips with them and one of them was through Colorado Springs and I was able to see this chapel. While I am not a very religious man, I can remember when I first saw it and how blown away I was. My grandfather was in the Air Force and had talked it up a decent amount, but when I walked up to it I was still shocked and whenever I walked in it didn’t fade away. This building is massive and beautiful and I can still remember the shock I had felt when walking up and to it.

While to many people this is just a place of entertainment, since March in 2018 this has also been my workplace. I work in the southwest part of the building and since I have started work here I have been here almost everyday. When I first came through the gates though I was just a fan and I still am, though the feeling of first coming through those doors has changed I will never forget how exactly I felt. When I first walk through those doors I was nervous and excited all at the same time, but as I have worked there for awhile I have come to acknowledge and appreciate how lucky I am to work in a nice building. Obviously such as any work there are days I complain and days I don’t mind, but for all it is worth this place has been a fantastic building that I have built up many memories in with close friends.