Gala Birthday weekend 2008 - Part ONE - My Special Birthday Visitor!!

Because Ashley is a direct, personal friend of Barack Obama, he emailed her to invite her to Greensboro to hear him speak on MY birthday. So she invited Jessica & me to go along with her (and about 20,000 of our closest buddies). So off we went!

We waited in line about two hours... can you tell we were EXCITED to be there to hear the next President of the United States of America!!

Ashley with new t-shirt ready to go through security check... that's one of our "standing in line" friends in front of her.

Here we've made it through the line, through security and are waiting for the Stars of the Show to arrive. Notice the police snipers atop building roofs - they were everywhere...

Waiting...

Jes' new shirt...

Finally, Senator Joe Biden and Senator Barack Obama!!! We went CRAZY! We could hardly believe we were actually there - we were THERE with the NEXT PRESIDENT!!!

Jessica used her "flip" to record part of the speech...

Of course, his speech was passionate and intelligent and inspiring. So GLAD he decided to come see me on my Birthday!