Obama in our neighborhood

This morning, Sarah, Alaina, and I woke up early and went to a Barak Obama rally in north Philadelphia.  It was probably four or five blocks from Alaina/Jim/Teresa/Emily's house (which is a mile from our apartment), so we couldn't really miss it!  He had four rallies in Philly today in various parts of the city.  We got up at 6, then arrived in line for the event at 6:45AM.  The rally started at 8:15, but there already was a line several blocks long to get into the parking lot.  Our timing was amazing--just as we got through security, Mayor Nutter and Governer Rendell were providing the intoductory remarks.  His speech was succinct, reminicent of past speeches, and had some folk flair (a la Palin??).  Still, we agreed that we were impressed with his ability to inspire and connect to his audience. 

All in all, even though it made for an early Saturday morning, we were pretty honored to go see the next possible president stop by our neighborhood!  The NYTimes had a short synapsis of his speech that we heard and here are some pictures I snapped:

I had a fun time watching the secret service on the roofs around us.  They must get so nervous at these open air/inner city events!!!