a little piece of history......really close to home

Wednesday night the first presidential debate of this race took place at Denver University near our house.  Incumbent Democrat Barack Obama is running against Republican Mitt Romney.  Ben will surely only remember these two from history books e-books, but we were able to walk nearby and get in on some of the debate action.  Ryan was forced to come home early by an unprecedented 5 hour closure of 1-25 and suggested we walk over to see what we could see.  We weren't able to get far because the police had the street blocked, but it was with awesome reason! Although the news was reporting that both candidates had already made their way into the debate hall, we arrived to our stopping point right before the presidential motorcade.  Groups from both sides were marching around and chanting and yelling with signs. We stood near a group of freshman fraternity brothers from DU.  Their perspective on the world and the election was quite entertaining and one day Ben-remind me to tell you about it!  Ben thought all the commotion was fantastic and joined in a few times from Dada's shoulders.  A quick moving storm also brought lots of wind and a steep temperature drop of nearly 40 degrees in just a couple of hours.  The weather just seemed to add to the commotion and excitement. You can watch the motorcade here.

The opposite side of the street was nearly all Romney supporters. The Obama supporters were more roving and on the move.

 

The plows were rolling out as we walked home-surely taking advantage of the shut-down highway to get where they needed to go.

This was the last defense swat team really close to our house.  Seeing them combined with no cars on Univeristy Blvd made the whole event very surreal.