Famous People I Have Met

OK, I am in some ways ripping off Dad's theme, but he took the hugs video, so I guess turn about is fair play. I also thought about titling this "42 on my 42nd," but didn't want to tell everyone how old I was. Oopps.

Today we went to the Silent Wings Museum again. Derrel and Kay are in town and he wanted to see some of their displays, so he and Luke and I went. While in there, we saw a couple of American Airlines jets parked next to the museum. We were told that President Clinton was coming to town for a speech and they were sweeping the airport, thus holding up the jets. (I heard later this was a result of weather in Dallas, but you never know.)

Clinton was supposed to speak at 5:15 - or so we thought - and since we were leaving about 4:45, we thought we might check it out. There were 11ty-11 billion police cars, so we knew SOMETHING was about to happen.

Come to find, Clinton was to speak at 5:45 and we had to wait longer than we thought, but we did. And when the small crowd (12 or so) got cold, the security guard said we could go inside of Lubbock Aero. We got to visit with OU's pilots, who could not leave with the basketball team with Clinton there. We all visited inside and then watched Clinton's plane land, pull up near the building and then after making sure everything was secure -- including using a helicopter, no less -- Clinton left the plane to go to his big, black Suburban. Except he didn't get into his car, he went and said "Hi' to the Lubbock Aero guys.

So then, he gets into his caravan and we rush to the exit. He comes zooming out of the gate and waves to us as he goes by. Trust me, the picture of him is him waving.



So then, about 10 feet from where he is in this picture, he screeches to a halt. (I can imagine the guy in the passenger seat of the above picture saying, "You want to do what?!") He rolls down the window and then just jumps out, walks straight over to us and starts shaking hands. We were all sort of in shock.

Luke is still sort of in shock and will have quite a story to tell when he gets to school Tuesday. I just think it is wild that in the past four months I have met and shook the hand of Colin Powell and Bill Clinton.