Wednesday at the convention

By Sarah Henderson – Late Tuesday night several delegates and I had the opportunity to attend the AgNite reception, despite the chilly temperatures, it was a great event and we enjoyed the live entertainment of Styx. We were up pretty late, but it was worth no sleep to get up early for the Iowa delegation breakfast at 8:00 AM today.

If anyone was thinking they were tired at the meeting, the “Power Hour” program was sure to pump everyone up. We were blessed with the opening remarks from John McCain’s mother. For me, the highlight was being in the presence of two Medal of Honor recipients and the wisdom shared by John Bolton.

At mid-week and the first big TV night, I started to take note of some interesting attire. A few state delegations wear complete matching outfits such as Texas all with white cowboy hats. Several other delegations have coordinating blazers and golf shirts. But the highlight was a woman in elephant-head house slippers. She told me her feet hurt so bad and they were matching with the convention so she just never took them off from the afternoon at the hotel. Given the state of my own feet I thought it was a great idea.

Today I put on my tennis shoes to participate in our service project preparing snack bags for the Gulf Coast. The Iowa delegation joined other states this afternoon to stuff bags and package snacks to be shipped south. It was a great experience to see how much could be assembled with everyone working together. It has special meaning being from Cedar Rapids to pay it forward to other people dealing with the immediate evacuation from a natural disaster.

This afternoon we were able to attend a reception for Mitt Romney and his family prior to the start of the evening program. I hope to see more of Mitt Romney in the future in some capacity in American politics. I feel he brought forward a great campaign and offered a lot to the Republican party.

More on this evenings program in my next entry.

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