One More Day Can you believe it?

Wow...today, which is technically tomorrow at this point was so jammed packed it felt like three days in one. Yesterday went pretty smoothly, as we finally had success with all of the technical problems and got our deadline completed on time. Each day the DNC seems to get more and more crazy, which gives us a new challenge each day. But hey this is all a learning experience right? And what an experience it has been.



Today began very early as we got up around six am to make it to the Curtis Hotel to meet and have breakfast with the Ohio Delegates. And when I say meet and have breakfast with the delegates what I really mean is watch them eat a good a breakfast and wait to meet and get an interview with them. But with no breakfast we still managed to get an interview with the mayor of Akron, Don Plusquellic, Sherrod Brown and got great footage of Ted Strickland's speech. We were very excited after we got all of this footage and didn't even seem to mind that we had nothing to do with the FREE delicious breakfast that everyone else was able to enjoy.



As for the rest of the day our focus was to meet our deadline for PBS with 2 mins of video. It went very smoothly, but if you know me I have nothing but horrible luck. So of course when it ended up taking our computer one whole hour to transfer our video over to PBS I wasn't surprised. After meeting our deadline we had some spare time before the main speakers would begin so myself and Jamie decided to treat ourselves to some dinner. Well on our way to the car no other then a riot broke out. Not just a few people gathered with signs....hundreds of anti-war protesters were determined to march into the Pepsi Center. Well because of this not only were there the hundreds of protesters but about dozens of police, some were on horses as the others were in complete swat team attire. So all in all we got to experience a protest first hand, but with the parking deck now being blocked off because of this that meant no dinner for us. Now not only did we have a long walk back but a mile long line of people waiting to get through security as well as it looked like we were eating junk food for dinner again!



We forgot about having to eat junk food for dinner again when the evening of speakers began. The speakers were great with Bill Clinton and Joe Biden as the ones doing the talking. We were able to get pretty good footage of both of those as we tried to sneak in to get a good view...which we did the best we could. haha. We were able to then interview delegates on their way out of the Convention.



We had heard about a bunch of different parties happening around the city, so we went and found them! We found an outdoor concert promoting Obama with some of his speeches put to songs as the DJ shuffled them into a rap so to speak. There were all kinds of people who were all mostly in their 20s which was really cool to see. It was just like a concert that one of us would go with the same excitement and fun but instead it was promoting Obama. Then we crashed a VIP party at a club.....which was invitation only! ok so we didn't crash it but we stood outside with the other media to be ready for which ever artist would show up. And it paid off because we saw no other then Fat Joe himself! Don't Hate! haha



Well tomorrow is the final day of the DNC, and I can't believe it is over so soon. Time seems to fly in Denver, I don't know why....maybe the time thing? haha just kidding! Well until tomorrow America :)