So yesterday might have been President's Day for everyone else but today was President's Day for me! Why you might ask? Well because I saw the President of the United States arriving on Air Force One! How did that happen you ask? Well, as you all know I flew back to Phoenix today and Mica came to pick me up and apologized for being a little late because she was stopped by police to have her car searched and also sniffed with a police dog because of President Obama arriving today. I had no idea he was coming to Phoenix, in fact I saw on the news at the SLC airport that he was in Denver. So anyway as we were leaving we decided to stop in the Park & Wait lot which is right across the street from the Executive terminal and there was all kinds of news vans parked there are police all over the place. Anyway, I was talking to my new friend Jed and asked him if he knew when he was arriving. Turns out Jed is a pilot and he had all kinds of info for us. Obama was supposed to arrive at 4:20pm only they weren't restricting airspace until 5:01pm and they restrict it 30 mins before arrival. How did he know this? Well his friend over in the next car is also a pilot and he had a radio and could hear the control tower! So we decided to stick around and see what happens. So about 4:45pm our friend Jed said the tower just heard from Air Force One and they were within range at 8,000 feet. So we got out of the car and went over to the fence just in time to watch it taxi to the Executive terminal. Then after a few minutes the door opened and a few minutes later President Obama came out and waved and went down the steps to his waiting limo. Then about 10 mins later his motorcade left and they drove right past us! Luckily I had my camera and captured a few pictures and video. But the bad thing, as I was waiting for him to come off the plane my camera went into sleep mode and I didn't get a picture of him deplaning! Still pretty exciting!
Here is Air Force One arriving
Here it is parked.Here is the motorcade leaving the airport. The President is in the second limo.
Here is President Obama in his limo.
4 comments:
Wow, that's pretty cool - good timing!
gary would be jealous. Just think of all his questions he will have for you. Exciting!!!!
We also want to know about Jed! You don't like visiting with strangers I thought!!!!
Kari is glad you got the background figured out. That is really cool you got to see the Pres.
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