This was a special day for me.  Grandma asked Mommy if I could get out of school to come to Sonja's property to watch the Bush 41 Funeral train pass by.   I wanted to and Mommy thought it would be a good idea.  I was watching a part of of our country's history being made.

It's hard to see, but I am standing in front of the flags at my school.  They are flying at half-staff to honor President Bush.  

My early dismissal was at 10:30am. 

Barbara stopped to get me a meatball and cheese Subway sandwich before she picked me up from school. 

 We went to Grandma's office, on Sonja's property.  They have horses, lots of chickens, and two emus.  

The emus hang out around Grandma office.  

We parked 40 feet from the train track.  I stayed in the car and watched my phone until close to time for the train to come.   I ate my entire sandwich, chips, and two cookies. 

They had a tent set up by our car since it was raining.  Sonja's daughters were there and several of their friends were there. 

It quit raining about 30 minutes before the train came by.    I had to practice a lot of patience. 

Grandma and I were standing the required 25 feet from the track.  Many people got up closer even though the police had told them to stay back.  We had read that the train would be going 30 miles an hour, but we think it was going much faster than that since it whizzed by. I think the entire ten cars were past us in less than 30 seconds.   We took both video and still pictures.  Here are our pictures:

If you zoom in on this picture you can barely see a guard standing at the head of the coffin.
These two pictures were on-line (not taken by us):

 Mimz went to see this event over near her home.   My parents both had to work or they both would have been out watching this event.  

After the train went by, we drove to Grandma's office and waited about 40 minutes to give the traffic a chance to thin out.  Well, traffic was still bad.  Policemen were directing traffic.  It took us about 40 minutes to drive the four miles home. 

I hooked up my Play Station and downloaded the new version of Fortnite.  I had to leave for baseball practice before it was finished downloading.  I practiced my spelling words and I could spell them all.

On the drive to baseball, Uncle Scott called me.  We talked eleven minutes.  We talked about my seeing the funeral train, and a lot about my sports.  I agreed to send him a picture of President Bush's coffin taken as it passed by me.  I was not in the picture.

Mommy came straight from work to my practice so after a few minutes of watching practice Barbara left and Mommy stayed with me and brought me home.

At home, I ate dinner, practiced my spelling words, and then played Fortnite.