Election Day 2008

The day started early, we needed to go to a neighboring precinct to hand out materials for our congressman. We needed to be there by 6 a.m. and we had about a 30 minute drive. We left a little after 5 a.m. so we would have plenty of time to get there.....

Isaac and Hannah were great, smiling faces at 5 a.m.

We arrived to our polling station almost an hour late. I had bad directions, it was dark, I'd never been to Suffolk and it was raining. Did I mention it was dark? To make a long story short, when I felt that I was going the wrong way I decided to make a U-turn and didn't see a ditch on the side of the road. I almost went in, thank God I stopped before we went in all the way but now my front tires were stuck. God provided by bringing us an E.M.T. who let us sit in her ambulance out of the rain until a police car and tow truck could get there.... So after about an hour wait and $75 later we arrived at the polls. (Sorry, no pics I didn't grab my purse when the E.M.T. had us get out of the car:(
The Eakes joined us later in the morning with hot chocolate and coffee. The boys were having a contest on how many fliers they could hand out before they were rejected. Isaac won with 6!



After working at the polls we went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel:)

At 7 p.m. we met as a co-op to watch the election results. We presented our reports on presidents, states, and history of the political parties . We also displayed our reports from earlier in the unit study. (Sorry, everyone, it didn't seem like a lot of work when I was planning in July:))
One assignment was to take our views and match them against the two candidates.





Once President Elect Obama had 200 electoral votes we knew once the polls closed on the west, he would be declared the winner. We took time out of our activities to pray for him and our country.

Thanks everyone for all your hard work and great reports!