Tuesday, September 2, 2008

and..... cut!

The DNC is over and the city has settled back into normalcy. We had a fantastic time just being in the center of it all. Paparazzi were everywhere and for a short time Denver was very starstruck. I have to admit I was even strolling the streets with my eyes peeled for someone famous. Annette Benning, John Turturro, and others were reported at a restaurant I frequent for happy hour. Hillary and friends were staying at the hotel next to my office. Spike Lee was hanging out at a local Mexican restaurant my friend's boyfriend works. My coworker was making a phone call in the lobby of our building and Sean Penn walked right by with no entourage and a single cigarette. Ohhh, it was all so cool!
I really enjoyed all the merchandise being sold along the streets. There were Barack action figures, a medley of pins, and shirts of all sorts. Drake and I couldn't help ourselves and bought the Obama, "That's my DJ" shirt.
The Civic Center was used exactly for its purpose. Activists took turns on the stage chanting their messages while others set up in the grass. Someone's slight attempt to recreate the Boston Tea party made me laugh as the tea didn't even color the entire fountain.
One night we went to the park next to our house for a Young Dems party. The chance to see JJ Abrams was our real reason for going as he was on the agenda. We didn't see him but stayed through to hear Joey Pants (from Sopranos) struggle to relate his diagnoses of chronic depression to the importance of health care (uhhh.. vote Demorcrat right?).
I've uploaded our DNC photos. I know there's tons of cop photos but as Drake pointed out to me, "people take pictures of what is out of the ordinary."

As a side note, I also uploaded some photos we took during our visit to Charlotte, NC to visit Drake's parents.