President Obama flew in to Springfield tonight to attend the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Birthday banquet at the Crowne Plaza. I, along with thousands of other Springfield residents who were not lucky enough (or wealthy enough!) to get a ticket to the banquet, thought it would be fun to head out to the airport to watch Air Force One land. Good idea...but due to some confusion on the best place to park the van and the fact that he landed 15 minutes earlier than was reported, we missed seeing the plane fly in. However as we were driving away, we were able to get a pretty good glimpse of it on the runway. VERY COOL! Then as we headed home, they had just shut down Veteran's Parkway so that would be the route he was going to take to the Crowne Plaza. We ended up in the parking lot of Soccer World at the intersection of Veteran's and Lawrence (again...we were not the only ones with this idea!) and waited for about 10 minutes until finally the motorcade drove by. Again, VERY COOL! So many police cars, flashing lights, sirens and white SUV's. But the black sedan in front with 2 American flags on it was an unbelievable sight! I know the kids will remember this for a long time.
Waiting for the motorcade....
I wish I had gotten better pictures, but this was the best I could do in the dark!
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