Obama in Española
Today we went to the Obama rally in Española, 20 miles north of Santa Fe. I am on the Obama mailing list, so received an email about the event on Monday. I got my ticket online, signed up Steve and got a ticket for him. On Tuesday they announced the event in the local paper, the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Our ticket said the gates opened at 10:30, but the newspaper said the event began at 12:30, so we left home just after 11:00am. Española is the town we drive through on the way to Taos or up to Durango and we don’t know it well. The event was in the plaza and I didn’t know Española had a main plaza (duh!).
We spent about 15 minutes driving around Española looking for the plaza and finally came upon the crowds of cars. The newspaper said 7,500 people were expected. At first I thought “yikes - too many people” then I remembered a friend telling me that 50,000 people go to the weekend football games in Boulder (and we should think about that when considering moving there) - so 7,500 is nothing.
We parked along the highway about two blocks from the plaza (and a very nice plaza it is with a historic church and a big grassy area) and walked with a lot of other people arriving the same time as us. There was a long line, so we walked some more - about two blocks up a hill to what we thought was the end, but then it turned and there was another block and then it turned (heading back to the highway) but it ended there. We joined the line.
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