McCain-Palin 08

Today, we had the opportunity to go to a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids for John McCain and Sarah Palin. The only glitch in the day was sitting in a traffic jam for over an hour trying to move a mile along with the 1000-1500 other people attempting to go to the rally!

Here we are just after going thru security and walking up the hangar for the rally.

In the distance, that is Sen. McCain's airplane getting ready to land.....and yes Carter was in heaven with all of the airplanes around!

Time for the "Straight Talk Express" to pull in to town. We got right up near the barracade, but you had to hold the camera above your head to get photos taken , so some may be a bit crooked!

A view of just part of the crowd waiting for the Future President and Vice-President to get off of their plane.

Carter and Mommy posing for a photo...he is doing so good for being up since 5:30am!

This photo fo the 2 of them is a bit blurry because we had the camera on extreme zoom...I need a new camera so bad!! John McCain is to the left of Sarah Palin, and her husband Todd is to the right.

Not the greatest photo of her, but again, the camera was held above my head.

Another view of their airplane.

Gov. Palin as she gave her speech to the crowd.

The whole family waiting to shake hands with McCain after his speech.

Time for Sen McCain to give his speech...again the camera was on extreme zoom which is why it is so fuzzy.

Looks like we are in luck and will get to shake his hand!! Although Kayla commented that she wanted to shake Sarah's hand instead..

Getting a bit closer to us.....

That is Adam's hand at the bottom that he is shaking, and after that he shook Carter and I's hands.

Time to head to their vehicles to tour the flood damage from earlier this summer.

All in all, it was a great day and I am so glad we had the opportunity to attend! It was great to see the candidates and get to hear their whole speeches, not just the snippets that the news media give you. If you have never attended a campaign rally before, I highly suggest you try to!