Obamanos!

So a week ago tonight, we were hanging out with the President of the United States. President Obama made his first trip to Mexico and he boldly chose to visit the capital. Lucky us! (In fact, only six US presidents have ever visited Mexico City: Taft, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton. The rest chose resorts, ranches and other more rural spots when they visited Mexico.)

The employees at the US Embassy were invited to a very short reception with the Prez, right here in Polanco at a nearby hotel. Sasha and Ivan stroller-ed over and met Sergio there only to find a long, long line ahead of us. There are a LOT of Embassy employees! Once in the ballroom, there was even more waiting, so keeping Ivan entertained was top priority...

Walk with Daddy...

...crawl with Mommy...

...and Daddy loses it a little.

After a couple of hours, we were rewarded with a quick speech from Obama thanking everyone for their public service. Very nice, but really we wanted a photo. It was every man (woman and child) for himself and we just didn't have what it took to get in the front row.

He shook a lot of hands.

This is as close as we got (not bad, really).

A little fuzzy but, hey, ya know, it's the President.

We managed to rig one shot of Ivan, thoroughly exhausted at this point, with his President.

A glimpse into the Lil Dude's future?