Sarah Palin

So yesterday was something new for us. We loaded up the minivan and headed to Noblesville, Indiana for a Republican rally that VP candidate Sarah Palin was speaking at. The kids weren't to excited initially but when we explained that if McCain and Palin are elected she will be the first woman Vice President ever they were a little bit more impressed.

Leave it to Jessica to paint her nails red, white, and blue. Then spell out the letters for Sarah on one hand and Palin on the other.

Standing in line for almost 2 hours. 25,000 tickets were given away for the event. I think we were numbers 11,023, 11,024, 11,025, and 11026 (just kidding ... who knows! But there were a bunch of people in front of us and a bunch behind us)

We weren't super-close but close enough to see. This is zoomed at one-click.

Afterwards we tried to sneak our way a little closer to maybe get a handshake. Umm ... yes we did jump a railing and step over a couple of chairs (the Secret Service can't stop the Purdy family) ... but this was the closest we could get. Actually this is as close as Jessica and Kyle could get (they took the camera and got farther than Leanne and I ... I guess their is an advantage to being smaller).

Waiting in line.

When they announced Palin.