The Tales Of Princess Mikkimoto

Posted By becky on November 5, 2009

As I mentioned in yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday, President Obama came to Madison to give a speech on education at Wright Middle School.

To say this was a big deal to Madison is a giant understatement. Not only have we not had a sitting President visit our fine city in 59 years (since TRUMAN!) but Madison has a huge love affair with Obama. WE LOVE YOU OBAMA! See? I can’t even help it. It’s like a political turrets.

So when Wednesday morning came along and my very conservative, very Republican office mate turned to me and said, “Over lunch wanna go see Obama’s motorcade?” Not only did I fall over in shock but I said, as fast as I could so he couldn’t change his mind, “SURE!”

And that, my friends is how Josh and I, stood together in fine bi-partisan form on the street corner waiting eagerly for the President’s motorcade to go by.

It was so exciting! As each minute passed more people came out and the police presence increased. Soon there was a security helicopter flying overhead and police barricading the roads.

I called my parents to tell them to “GET DOWN HERE!” They were only one minute from getting to us when the police shut down the street they were on and they were stuck. However because all the drama was for Obama (wow, I just made that up on my own. Maybe I should be his new PR person…) they both thought it was still pretty cool.

I was on the phone with Matt when all of a sudden we saw police motorcycles and cars cruising down the empty street. “Oh my god! This is it! I gotta go!” I exclaimed as I hung up.

Only to have nothing follow.

My new friends next to me thought we were duped. “You know,” one woman explained, “They have a lot of different routes so maybe he went another way.” And when my mom sent a text saying that the police were letting them turn around and go home, my heart broke. Would there be no Obama for this Mama? (Man, there I go again! Damn I’m good!)

Until out of the corner of my eye, I saw a flash. Seemingly out of no where came a flood of black cars with lights flashing. “THIS IS IT!”

Honestly the cars, limos with flags (there were two) motorcycles, SUV’s, vans and an ambulance came so fast I sort of lost my mind. I became that crazy lady who was waving her arms at all the cars at once and yet not seeing a thing.

After they passed as I was still standing there mouth agape and dumb struck, the woman next to me said, “Wow! HE WAVED! Obama waved at us!”

Wha? He did? Um, what? You saw him? Oh yeah, ah, I mean me too.

Josh didn’t see him either but we both decided on our way back to the office that we were close enough and even if we didn’t see him wave at us, he still did. You know, the whole tree in the forest thing…

And that, second to being a 6th grader at Wright, was good enough for me.

(pictures courtesy of Josh’s camera…)

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