First Contact

We decided we wanted to go to the inauguration of Barack Obama around the beginning of December so we emailed our congressman Tim Walz and senator Amy Klobuchar to see if they had tickets figuring the tickets were already spoken for.  Both wrote back saying essentially that there were lots of requests for tickets but not many tickets.  We went ahead and made plans anyway, figuring we'd be without tickets but wanted to have the experience of being there with all the excitement and energy.