Zachary Earl Smith

Hello all, started this blog from an altitude of 36,000 feet and about an hour behind schedule (I love airports, sense my sarcasm). Got up at 2am EDT and drove from Presque Isle to Bangor with enough time to grab breakfast. Checked in around 5:30am and took off on time and arrived in Newark airport for my connecting flight a little after 8am. Boarded the plane to Minneapolis and spent nearly an hour taxiing in line to take off. Oh well, so far so good, met an alternate delegate from Massachusetts on the flight and can tell the flight is full of other convention goers including protesters. The plane only seems to have two temperature settings, roast and icicle, which also changes depending on which end of the plane you’re on and which end complains the most. On a good note the stewardess gave everyone raisins (which I do love), also lucky me which no one else seems to, so here I am typing away at 30 plus thousand feet with half a dozen boxes of raisins, not bad.

I have been thinking about how truly historic this election is going to be, and how excited I am that the first woman Vice President is going to be a Republican. I am very fortunate to be a part of it and in the middle of the action no less.

Finally arrived at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport, and took advantage of the cities’ public transit system. Basically while everyone else was spending $30 or more on a taxi to get to the hotel I spent $1.50. I really do love trains, and the hotel was a fairly short walk from the station.

Got all checked in and caught up with my roommates for the week, including our fearless leader of the Maine College Republicans, Alex Willette. We spent most of the day getting situated in the hotel, although we did check out Civic Fest a display of historical trinkets and such from presidential elections going back to our first. By the time we got back to the hotel we were very surprised to learn we had spent over three hours there. We had a late dinner with a good chunk of the delegation and had a chance to meet the RNC chairman, Michael Duncan. There we also found out that this apparently is the hotel where all the big whigs are staying at, Maine lucked out, and also staying here will be Laura Bush. Pretty sweet eh, also met some very nice ladies from the Idaho delegation who where very kind, and enjoyed teasing us young people.

It is shaping up to be a fun week, I will continue to post regularly as possible, and hopefully later will have something more exciting to actually post.

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