Presidential Sighting

This past weekend brought perfect weather to New York. Saturday morning was lost to waiting for cable and a delivery, but we headed out in the afternoon to take the ferry to Ikea in Red Hook. The trip took a lot longer than it should have, but for a pretty good reason. All water traffic, including the Ikea ferry was stopped so that a very important person could 'copter in and land on the helicopter pad one pier over. At first we thought that said important person was Prince Harry. He's been in New York for the last few days and was spending Saturday playing polo at Governor's Island. It seemed to make perfect sense that he'd be coming back over the water at about that time.

As it turned out, it was President Obama who was landing that afternoon. We didn't get an up-close look, but it was very cool to see two huey helicopters swoop in and the president exit one of them. There were a bunch of people with him, naturally, and it was really interesting to see how quickly they exited and blended in to the convoy; there were several identical looking limos so any potential snipers wouldn't know which one to shoot at.

It was the kind of viewing that I would never have gone out of my way to see, but I'm glad I got to anyway.