The OBerks see Obama

Jeanne and I were lucky enough to get tickets (along with 84,000 other people, according to news reports), to see Barack Obama accept the Democratic nomination for President of the United States of America. I put together a short video of our day - which is below.

In short, we left our house at 10am, caught a 10:20 bus from Boulder to Denver, entered the Stadium about 1:30, Obama went on at about 8pm, and we were home by midnight. It was, in short, amazing. The energy of the crowd, the diversity of people we saw there, and the sheer spectacle of it was something I've never seen. It was like a Pink Floyd concert, with more secret service sharpshooters and less weed.

Unfortunately, the lighting was either intense sunlight or really bright spotlights, so the video is a bit washed out looking, but it's got some good shots in there. Here's the short video of our day:

We got the golden ticket!

Jeanne and I scored the hottest ticket in town right now - two seats to Barack Obama's acceptance speech on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention. Regardless to how you stand politically, you can agree that this will be a historic event. We just found out that Al Gore will be a speaker, so that's exciting as well. So Jeanne, myself, and 70,000 others will pack into Invesco Field next Thursday. We'll post photos and videos afterward.