Words from WickedZ

Last week a friend of mine and I got the opportunity to see Obama speak live (http://www.wickedz.com/photos/obama).  He was in Westminster Colorado for a couple hours and was scheduled to appear at a local high school.  It all started with a 2 hour wait in line.  Almost 2 hours just to get through security and into the building and another 30 minutes of no movement of the line inside to get into the gym.  Security opened up a second set of doors to the gym and were slowing finding seats for people one at a time.  Mike and I headed to that door and squeezed in.  A guy started yelling at us, well not yelling out of anger,it was just loud in there. “Hey you guys, media behind the rope!  Hey media on the other side please!”  You see, Mike and I had our giant cameras with us and I guess we looked like media… wow!  Ok Mr… we’ll get right in there.  So Mike and I got to sit about 65 feet from the podium in the media section instead of crammed in the bleachers!!! Yes!!!  I was so excited to get a great spot to get some pictures that my hands were shaking.  Add the fact that I just knew we were going to get kicked out of the media box once someone wised up on us that I was almost in a panic attack.  It really was an exciting day all-in-all.  No one ever wised up on us and we just bounced around in the media box getting different angles and watching/acting like the other press folks…  It was actually quite humorous.