After hours of tracking and waiting and blending in with all the liberals, Shannon and I saw the elusive Bama (Barack Obama that is). I didn’t end up getting a picture of me with him…but I did take a video with my camera that shows that I was in the same room with him (I’ll post that later).

The morning started early with a stop to our favorite local coffee shop. You might have heard of it…Starbucks. Shannon got her grande-half-calf-non-fat-no-wip-white-chocolate mocha, and I got a grande peppermint mocha. The morning started off in the right direction. After getting our “nectar from the god’s,” we headed off to the Kiva Auditorium to get in line. The doors didn’t open until 11:30 am, but we got there at around 8:30 am and the line was just starting. We only had about 20 people in front of us.

The time spent waiting was pretty enjoyable. Except for the typical crazy freak who gets pissed off every time someone’s friends join them in line in front of him (I’ve experienced these people at concert’s before). Seriously do you really think security is going to do anything when you go whine to them every 15 minutes.

At 11:30 the doors where opened and we were all quickly frisked…I mean whisked into the auditorium where we waited for another hour-and-forty-five minutes. At least at this point we weren’t sitting on hard concrete anymore. We got some pretty sweet seats. Not only was I close enough to see Obama…I could have thrown something at him if I wanted to (and I throw like a girl…so that’s pretty darn close).

I have to say, I went into this with only the hopes of getting a picture, but I came out of the event really liking Obama. He has some really good, practical ideas to change our country. I like him (not as much as Ron Paul though). If the dude ends up getting the Dem. nom I think I might toss a vote his way (unless Ron Paul runs as a third-party candidate…then I’m voting for both Ron Paul and Obama…think about it and it will come to you).

So that is the short version on our trip to see the Bama. If you are a registered Democrat…I recommend giving the guy a look before you vote in the primary. And if you haven’t registered to vote yet…well you can click on the Rock the Vote graphic in the right column of my site….it’s fun for the whole family.