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Bronzy- first time caller, good morning! Good morning everyone!

I want to offer a bit of advice regarding your planned attendance at the rally today, if it’s not too late.

I believe the rally is at 3PM, and the doors open at noon, so attendees will be lining up about sunrise- I kid you not. I would venture a guess that the line will be well formed by noon and stretch out for a quarter mile or more.

Depending on the venue layout, and what you want to accomplish, or better stated- where you want to be in relation to the speaker, your arrival time will determine your position more than anything else will, in my humble estimation.

Some people want to be on the crowd line in the event DJT elects to greet the crowd. For the most part, those already lined up at the current time of approx. 930AM, will be in the best position to accomplish said goal. In fact those people have likely been in line for several hours already this morning.

If there is seating and that is a preferred goal, getting in line over the next hour is a good bet to meet that goal.

If getting into the venue and if where one is located in the venue is of little concern, then arriving between 10AM and 11AM will probably work.

Getting there when the doors open seems prudent, however the interest is likely to be high, and getting there when the doors open is what perhaps half of the attendees will be doing, and it will probably be a bottleneck, meaning you may get in, and you may not, depending on the seating capacity. Again- I kid you not... as I have attended a Trump rally, and before that, a few GW Bush events, back in the day, so I know from experience what’s bound to happen.

I might be speaking to the choir here, so forgive me if this is all known to you.

Wear comfortable shoes. Go easy on the diuretics like caffeine, or medicine, and bring a couple bottles of water and snacks or a sandwich or two that will keep, unless you know for sure that food will be available.

Be sure to print out tickets off of the Eventbrite website via the Trump link. When I went, tickets were required but were never checked. Who knew?

Have a great time participating in history.

Thanks for yesterday’s advise. If the rally had been in the evening, I think it would have been difficult to get there on time and a lot more people. Our water and snacks were tossed in the trash by the screeners. We were hungry. Ended up buying a Burger basket/cheese burger with fries $10. A two cookie package $2. Later in the day, we bought one coffee, one small drink, one box popcorn and another two cookie package $10. A woman with a small Min Pin was interviewed by someone with big mic and a cameraman. I wonder if anyone knows why she was interviewed. I think an older man in a wheel chair was part of her group. I was not able to make my phone work well and missed the message from Hoosiermama. Just for fun I managed to send a wave or two to the camera media. The worst thing about being at the live event was not being able to see Mr. Trump for all the cellular phone picture takers and recorders. I tried for awhile to get a good photo but eventually figured it was not going to happen. Once I framed Mr. Trump in the photo, several phones ahead of me suddenly appeared in my photo. We were not too far back as we were with the packed crowd in front of Mr. Trump. Rambling on here as I think of the event. Also, I have been to the Blue Ribbon Pavilion for events which had seating. I saw bleacher seating in two areas for the rally. It was not pleasant standing for hours even while eating. In all, it was exciting. People of all ages and conditions. I saw a young woman using a red tipped cane coming around a corner alone. Oh, and Mr. Trump said of one protester, “You are easy here in Indiana. You just got up and left. We did not have to lead you out”. (paraphrased) That was funny. WIBC Abdual, a news guy, thought that Mr. Trump said nothing substantive! He said that Trump jumped around by giving the people some Carrier and Clinton or whatever popped into his head. I thought, “Well, yeah, that is what we like about him. Not rehearsed”. And, our Chicks on the Right just do not like Trump but will vote for him if he is the nominee. That is all folks.