Team Walsh

Conor was wanting to fit in so he put his "Hollywood's"on! Then my favorite...Rodney Atkins came and sang "These are my people, "Watching you" and "Its America". I have to say that performance was my favorite.

About this time Conor fell asleep...it was way time!!The MC gets on the mike and says that George wants to see the crowd and they have routed the plane to fly over us and to give him a Big Texas welcome home. It was such a surreal moment seeing that big ol' bird fly over us, it seemed like it was just inches above the buildings. WE all had "W" and we waved those and waved our flags. It was really pretty neat, it gave me chills. So then we waited while they landed and drove over to our little plaza where 30,000 had crammed in to await the arrival of "Midland's rising son". And then they finally made it home....Then he started his speech...

You know, being an American is something I sometimes take for granted. Standing there in that plaza with those thousands of people I was so happy to be called an American. There are going to be many presidents in the White House...there are going to be many times we don't agree with what they do and say. But standing there in the presence of the man George W Bush I was overwhelmed with the amount of pressure he had to deal with, the attacks on 9/11, the Katrina Hurricane in New Orleans, the war in Iraq, the state of the economy. Wow! What pressure for on man to try and fix. He said he was going to wake up the next morning and make coffee for Laura, read the paper, feed and walk the dogs, and that would all happen before 7am. He said he made it through the last eight years witht he support of his family. He said he was going to write a book to try and let people understand what it is like in the oval office. They have some good ideas for some charity work they are looking at.

One thing is for sure....I walked away from there with a new respect of the man George W. Bush.