Sen. Obama's visit in pictures

The Senators arrived via Osprey. These are half helicopter and half airplane. A friend who was over at the Citadel (which was the site of the press conference and on a really big hill) said that they were visible coming into the city and looked really cool.

Here is the Senator on the tarmac. You will notice that I am no where near him. This will be true for most of the visit.

The press conference was held at the Citadel which is the site of the oldest parts of Amman. Here you can see the approximately 80 journalists that were waiting for his arrival - half were from Sen. Obama's campaign plane (and would fly with him to Israel and Europe) and about half were local journalists.

Here I am near the Senators as they received a guided tour of the Citadel. Later on while Senator Obama is having an interview with Katie Couric, Senators Reed and Hagel and their staff and I will have the same archaeologist show us around the museum which features Jordan's Dead Sea Scroll fragments.

Here is my picture "with Senator Obama" He is the small man behind the podium.

Here is my picture with the life-sized Senators Reed and Hagel.