I'm rather excited about our plans for
Independence Day tomorrow. We'll be getting
up early in the morning to go to the USAF
Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
where they'll open the gates at 9AM and start
letting people in. I have a feeling that there will
be quite a wait in traffic just to get to the gate
tomorrow. Why?

The President is coming to town, and we have
tickets!

President Bush is going to be giving a speech
at approximately noon tomorrow to dedicate a
new wing of the museum. It was announced
in the paper on Tuesday that they'd be giving
away free tickets starting at 10am, so I hopped
in a car with one of my coworkers and we
were among the first ones there to get them.

So we're going to sit or stand, I'm not sure
which, in the hot sun for three hours tomorrow,
all the while doing our best to keep a
three-year old entertained, to hear our nation's
leader speak for less than an hour in person.
Needless to say, I'm excited about it. This will
be the first time I've been to an event like this.
It'd be really cool if we got to shake the
President's hand like Sam did, but I shouldn't
count on it, not with a rumored 25,000
attending. Still... this is going to be cool.

Gri"and then of course a cookout and
fireworks in the evening"shny