Why such a small crowd? I thought that JAX would be a huge blowout.
They had to turn people away, as they had exceeded their capacity. That’s not bad!
This particular venue was small...it could only hold 5K people, and it was at capacity....they were turning people away.
It hit capacity of 5000 early on before starting.
We drove in from Georgia, getting to a parking lot before 8am, and were told people had been waiting since before 5 am, and they basically had the capacity crowd lined up waiting by the time they opened at 6am!
We went to The Landing anyway, picked up some cool new pins, an awesome Gators for McCain-Palin shirt, watched her motorcade in, and hung out with all the other ticket holders who did not get in ; p
The BEST part was lining the street, waiting to watch her leave. It seemed like forever, but at last the motorcycle cops got into position, and cranked up....then the officer closest to us stopped, and clearly was listening to instructions. He cut the engine, stepped off his bike, turned to us, and said, with a surprised laugh, “She’s walkin’!”!! It was great!
I LOVE this woman, and so did Jacksonville!
Tatt