I love it! I went to check out if they changed around BarackObama.com since I was there last (yesterday), and they have! The website has all sorts of neat social features. Blogs, event planning, even links to YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr!!! I can't wait to add my pictures from today's event to my Flickr page now :) More importantly I can't wait to see everybody else's because I couldn't see the stage at all...
It was awesome to be there, despite not being able to see much. The energy from the crowd was absolutely amazing. We got there at 9:00 am and the place was already packed...an hour before the speech was to start! I just couldn't believe how amazing everybody was though.
My feet were sufficiently frozen by the end of the event and we found a tiny Mexican cafe near our parking garage where we went to wait for Alex's parents (and warm up with some coffee, food was excellently cheap and good too!) There was limited seating and of course a lot of people coming in and out of the parking garage, I noticed a lot of other people had the same idea. What I loved was one particular table where one man had been seated he had invited another couple to come sit too. By the time we left there was yet another couple there that hadn't been there before. I don't think any of these people knew each other prior to this so it really made me happy to see that we do have a community spirit left...people in the community who weren't there were genuinely happy too (at the restaurant and the museum). I think everybody was just a little bit happier today!
After our lunch Alex and I went strolling back by the old state capital where they were now tearing down the stage. I took some pictures of some Lincoln landmarks and then we walked down to the library and museum. I went into the library this time (we didn't get a chance to go in before) and then we visited the museum again. The exhibits didn't change at all but it was good to see them again. I felt like I saw everything differently than I did over a year ago when I went. I also knew a little bit more about Lincoln since I had read Team of Rivals (a long but awesome book if you like Lincoln and history) this past summer. It was a perfect way to end our visit in Springfield today.
Now we're at Alex's parents for the night and I should be conentrating on my DRM research and getting a list of articles to assign to my copyright classmates on Monday...
