I never reported on election night. Someone told me that they were sorry Obama lost Indiana, but I was actually thrilled with the results. We came within 2% and surprised everyone. My town went about 65-35 for Obama. After the victory party, I got to hang out with my friend Pam at the city clerk's office while they counted all the absentee ballots, until about 1 a.m. We were the second-to-last county to give final results. Pam was in charge of calling in results to the national campaign so they could determine delegate allocation. It was very exciting to be there and see everything happening first-hand. And that was the night that changed everything - Tim Russert and the rest of the media declared that Obama would be the nominee. It felt great.
(I wish it would hurry up and be official though! Hopefully it will be tomorrow night.)
One of our weekends involved the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra picnic at Thompson Park. We brought Lenny and we all had a great time.
The president of the board presented Chuck with a surprise check - the orchestra had collected a "summer social activity fund" that was really to sponsor Chuck's trip to Spain for the competition. It was so nice.
Dan, who works in the physics department at IU, showed us all how to make our own ice cream in a ziploc baggie. That was a lot of fun.
Lenny was paying very close attention, but did not get his own ice cream. He got plenty of treats that day though.
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Poor Chuck! I hope he gets where he needs to be soon! I have never heard of making ice cream in a ziploc baggie! Interesting!
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