Yesterday was an unusual amazing fall day, no clouds, no rain, no plans for the afternoon.
this week , my more face book active spouse stumbled on another Obama speech to be held in Cleveland and we signed up. I cannot vote as you may know but Alla can, though she is leaning for the other guy, but we both wanted to see and sense a speech atmosphere.
doors opening at 5:30 the invite said, you would assume that the event would begin around 6:30. No. but before that we needed to fuel ourselves, unfortunately the road we took does not go through normal areas, we had a choice of mystery pizza and a Chinese place.
we deiced to eat Chinese before the speech that will badmouth them. a mistake (not Chinese in general, but this place). Mongolians would not eat this Mongolian beef and Alla's chicken was worse, they even messed up the rice!, shame, the place looked normal. well slightly less hungry but not satisfied we parked at the museum and join the long line. this line was long but fast moving and on the way we see button pushers, you know the people that want to sell you Obama buttons, hats, shirts and such. one of the guys on the side asks me if I decided who to vote, i say I cant, but my spouse who i was on the phone at that moment, can, I took his card, and he said he was running for president! this was in the line to see Obama. I checked later, the guy is legit, he received 3902 votes nation wide in the previous elections, lucky I took a photo with him (his highlight of the day? ). i should have asked why he is running, since he obviously has no chance, but the line was moving fast, missed it. we were told to keep our phones open, Alla went to check her phone, but i told her it is always open, even when we go to the cinema!!
we had to wear our warmer clothes (not carry anything for security), but then, no one checked the tickets (why did we sign up, now we get more junk mail). we got in and Obama wasn't there, and we learned that he would not come till 8 +, almost 2 hours wait. you couldn't enter food or drinks or umbrellas , weapons and other necessities, but they did give us water bottle, but they took the cap away. we didn't feel like waiting and we walked back towards down town. we started to feel hungry (from the less then half finished Chinese) and found a new place, and quickly devoured some chicken sandwich, which i would not have eaten had Obama came earlier!!! this is why he is to blame. we walked back to the venue, now there was no line, but we couldn't get close to the show.
and then it started, the plain landed, air force one, this was at the airport, the plan approached and the crowd got a buzz from excitement, the plane stopped right next to us, its very impressive to see it, probably the only famous plane, a real movie star. few moments later, Obama got off the plane while hundreds of cameras are clicking, ours included. the speech was nice, nothing real new which was expected, but we still focused on getting the optimal photo since we were not close enough (or tall enough). people started leaving during the speech to avoid traffic, this is strange to me, you wait 3 hours, then leave during, makes no sense, but this allowed us to come closer and closer and we managed to get real close after the speech and reached the front after he passed this specific point for hand shaking. i saw him from 10 meters away, but the only hand i shook was that other candidate. we lingered for a while , trading photos with some other people and hoping he would make a 2nd pass for hand shakes , he didn't and by the time we headed home, the majority of people already left so we had little traffic.
so, don't forget to vote, for whom, your call
cheers
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