A peek into the life of Addison Rose: Political Addy: Shaking hands

On Friday morning, we set out to see Barack Obama. He was to speak at Key Arena. We were told that the doors would open at 11:00am. Not really wanting to stand out in the cold with Addy for too long, we decided to arrive at 10:30. Key Arena holds close to 18,000 people so we didn't think that we'd have a problem getting in. Little did we know. We got downtown about 10:15 and were met with crazy, mad traffic. We inched. We creeped. We crawled. We finally foud a parking space about 11:30 and rushed to the arena. We were shut out - along with about 3,000 others. It turned out that the arena was filled (or at least had all of its seats spoken for) 15 minutes before the doors even opened.

We decided to head to lunch at a nearby food court so that we could wander back by after lunch - around 1:00 (the time that Obama was to start speaking) and see if there was any possibilty of getting in once everyone was settled inside.

As we were eating, a big screen TV was set up and we realized that the Obama speech would be broadcast live there. There was quite a crowd gathering, so we decided to stay put and watch on TV. The crowd still got into the speech, so it was still fun.

Obama spoke for about an hour. Addy didn't seem too interested in the speech. She was much more interested in trying to take my glasses off my face. But she was still very good, and I'm sure that she absorbed the content of the speech in the deepest part of her brain.