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Home from the rally! Inside the rally was SO MUCH FUN. If he does rallies around the country during the general, and you haven’t gone, do go. It’s a wonder for the soul to be in a space filled with thousands of people who get it, who feel like you do. Everyone I spoke to was like an old friend.

It was incredible waiting in line, seeing all the people in their Trump gear. Some amazing shirts, funny. Lots of anti-Hillary shirts. I like the one written in her special arrow font, saying BENGHAZI, and under neath saying that the H (in the Hillary font) is silent. Everyone was upbeat. People from all walks of life, all races, lots of older kids, seniors with walkers, people in wheelchairs.

TSA screened us, along with the Secret Service and the Bomb Squad plus their bomb dogs, which were gorgeous. Like Donald says, the safest place in the country is INSIDE a Trump rally.

One thing they may not have shown on tv is the sheer quantity of the Stolen Lives banners. There were about 40 different faces represented, and I assume the wonderful people carrying and holding them were their bereaved loved ones. All of these photos were of course people whose lives were cut short by illegal aliens. One sign said “Why import extra criminals?”

All around me were great, interesting people. I sat next to an Army guy who is hoping to get a civilian security job. We were both admiring the SS guys and how seriously they were working, scanning the crowds. He had quite a rough stutter, but when this army guy sang the national anthem, he sounded beautiful. Another guy was young of Indian ancestry and so smart. There was nothing about Hillary or Trump he didn’t know. I want the future to belong to kids like that.

I did have one strange guy sit next to me on the other side for a bit. He was EXTREMELY friendly with many cameras on him. He had a striking accent, I’m not sure where from, maybe Ireland? But he wouldn’t admit to it, said he’d always lived in Orange County. That made me uneasy even though he was very friendly and boisterous. I kept asking myself, was I imagining that accent? But it was quite noticeable and I have a good ear. I felt he was “lying” and it bothered me. He got up a lot to wander in the crowd.

When Trump came out, to thunderous cheering, the first thing he did was tell the story of the national anthem — that the singer told him they wouldn’t let her sing it because there wasn’t time. So he insisted we have to have the anthem, brought her up, and she got to sing it with him standing there. Did I say SHE sang it?? We ALL sang it. A room filled to the rafters with patriots singing our beloved anthem. Sure, she had a good voice. But we, all together? That was something.

You saw the rally. You know Trump was great, had such energy. He is a wonderful story teller. He definitely interacts with us, he feels us, he hears us (literally - he responds both to the hecklers and the “I love you” calls). He is genuine. When it was over and we all filed out, there were smiles on everyone’s face. Kind of sappy, but it just was a great feeling in there.

Got to my car on the 4th floor of the parking structure, pulled it out and was “in line” to descend. Never moved an inch in about an hour. At one point, people who were hanging out outside their vehicles started running past me. There was yelling, there were bullhorns. I saw on the floor below us (to the side you could see the lower level) some guys hurling things off the garage level onto the ground below. I think those were protesters. I couldn’t go see what was going on, because I was alone, but people going past were telling me various things. One thing was for sure: we were not being let out of the parking structure. Kind of scary.

Cops on those Segway like vehicles came up and whooshed past. Sometimes there was yelling and honking of horns. Finally the line of cars started to move. Slowly we circled down the garage levels and emerged onto the street.

I’ve never seen that many police with my own eyes before. The guys with the extra bulky protection on, weapons all over them. All those mounted police. Dozens of officers in groups all over that street. All directions blocked off but one. Helicopters whirring overhead. We were sent down a residential street, and around each corner were more cops. People were outside of their houses watching. I had been hearing on the radio that the big streets were blocked so I wanted to go somewhere to the south to take another street, but there were so many police everywhere. Even many blocks away, on the big streets things were blocked off. One intersection had a lot of Hispanic people milling about, and I couldn’t tell if they had been protesters or not. When I got to Chapman, it was blocked too, but I saw the police were removing their cones there so I could turn left there.

An adventure. And worth all of the trouble to experience the Trump rally and to be among thousands of Americans who loved this country and want To make her thriving and sustaining to her people again.