Inauguration day...

DESPITE the fact that my candidate did not win the presidency, it was neat to see history in the making this morning. I do hope for the best for our nation and for our families and our future...only time will tell!

I also wanted to share a bit about my inauguration experience since I was not blogging at that time and it was a once in a life time experience for me. In January 2005 I attended President Bush's inauguration with my friend Traci and her friend Katie. It was an amazing experience and one that I will not forget (including how cold it was for this California girl!).

After going through massive security checks, somehow we were able to walk right up to the 7th row of seats in the inauguration. People didn't question 3 innocent looking ladies who were walking with a purpose to the front...Because of our confident walks we were able to get some of the best seats in the house (where our tickets had us backing in the standing room area) and watch President Bush's inauguration from the 7th (or maybe it was 8th) row (you can count the rows in front of us). What a view and an experience and a memory for history!

Here we are about an hour before the inauguration, the seats around us were empty because they were for the families of the senators, etc who were still at breakfast with the Bushes...when they got to their seats shortly before the ceremony was about to begin, a few people questioned who we were and how we got such great seats (since we were not elected officials or family of such) and I told them I worked for the Bush's California campaign (which I did) so they didn't report us to security...

Here is President Bush making his inauguration speech. I have some of it on video as well, he could have spit on us from his distance!

Here's me at one of the inauguration balls afterwards. We were able to bounce around to a few of the different Inauguration balls that night and had a lot of fun! The security lines were so long that day that we did not want to wait in the cold to watch the inauguration parade, but we enjoyed the many festivities including a concert with one of my favorite performers Andrea Bocelli.