He likes chocolate ice cream, she likes strawberry!

Out of every trial comes a blessing. The same day the fish bone incident happened is the same day Bruce and I had ice cream with Bush 41 and Barbara! We left Boston, to spend the rest of our vacation in Maine. Driving up the eastern seaboard, Bruce suggested we stop by Kennebunkport to see the beautiful home of former President Bush as it overlooks the Atlantic Ocean.

As we turned off the road going through the main part of town, two black SUV's passed us. Bruce thought hmmm.....wonder if that's the President. He pulled into a parking lot to turn the car around and the SUV's had stopped about 100 yards in front of us. Just then, Bush 41 and Barbara get out of the car. I start screaming, "get the camera, get the camera" thinking we could get a picture of them from the car. But no.....Bruce starts driving right towards them! The secret service men, wearing earpieces, are now eyeing us. One driver repositions his SUV right beside us. So Bruce backs up and goes around him! By now, I am thinking...we just left the hospital in Boston and I don't want to have to go back there because these secret service men take us down! Bruce parks the car and says, "let's go see if we can meet the President!"

We walk up the ice cream stand where the Bush's are placing their order. Just to make this story more interesting....George likes chocolate.....Barbara likes strawberry. The secret service guy asks us not to take a picture while they are eating ice cream. We then ask if we can at least say hello. The guy kinda grunts yeah. So we wait for the Bush's to turn around. As they do, we say hello to Barbara. She waves and gets into the SUV. President Bush walks over to us and says hello and shakes our hand. He was friendly. Bruce tells him we are from FL and how much his son, Jeb Bush, is loved in FL. When Bruce mentions that he is a pastor, President Bush becomes very friendly and shook our hands again! He noticed I was pregnant and asked about the baby. Then he said to me, "Well, then you better get in the picture with me!" Bruce took my picture and I took his picture with the President.