Jennifer's 365 Project

I'm having a harder time walking for any length of time. So I barely made it to the Delos Place in the skywalk. Pregnancy can be done now.

I've been watching them slowly re-design the 3rd floor of the Hannon McKendry building, which is the floor that leads to the Skywalk.
Today I see they have walls put up with little stars, basically. It's an interesting look. It will look very modern for a few years, and then it will probably start to look dated and have to be redone again. But for now, it is interesting.

Rainy. Bleh.

I've been staying warm this winter by walking through the skywalk. Usually in the winter I head over to the Grand Rapids Public Library and read at lunch, but I just haven't felt much like it lately. So instead I've been catching up on a bunch of podcasts and enjoying the journey through buildings in the skywalk.

I spent most of the day sitting at my desk...by the time lunch rolled around I was ready to get up on my feet and move around.  Rather than heading over to the library to do some ready I thought I'd finally explore the whole skywalk.

I took several photos throughout the skywalk, though not of every section (like between the Mariott and Skywalk Deli, or between the Van Andel and the building across the street).  It's an and each section looks a little different.  It's not a very long walk if you're doing it for exercise (under a mile) unless you're walking back and forth from end to end - which I did see several groups of people doing.

So here's just a little slideshow, for the sake of a slide show, of the Skywalk. Of course I forgot to take a photo of the maps, so this PDF I found online will have to make do. The slideshow is essentially Devos place working back toward Van Andel Arena.

Apparently there is a Skywalk throughout part of downtown Grand Rapids. And, apparently, I'm the only one that didn't know that.  I never really noticed that the skywalk connected more than the Marriott to an office building.  Partly because I never walk by it...and partly because I apparently don't look up.

Lori and I met up for lunch at the Skywalk Deli.  It's a small little sandwich shop on the 2nd floor of the Comerica building.  I had a pretty easy time finding it; easier than I had anticipated.

Leaving via skywalk (I originally just walked over to the Comerica building) proved a littly trickier because of the construction just outside of the Van Andel.  Still, I managed to avoid the first snow flurries for the year and I did make it back to the office.

I'll definitely have to walk the length of it sometime just to do it.  Skywalks like that always make me think of airports and Summerset Mall.