Can you believe how important and thrilling and scary and thrilling and, well, thrilling today feels? I'm fresh out of words (thus all the "thrilling" trilling) so, on the jump you'll find a little series of snapshots of this morning's vote.

My polling place was in the dining room of Beau Rivage:

At 7:30 a.m., about a hundred people were already in line and here's where we were all headed. Malibu's a small town and most of us knew at least one of the poll workers:

In the tiny little voting booths, we inserted our ballots:

Top of the ticket -- president of the United States:

Green light -- the ballot is official:

And at the end, I was so, yes, thrilled, I didn't even manage to frame this shot so it was at all attractive. Yep, I'm an emotional and sentimental girl, not that that's much of a surprise to anyone who visits this blog with any regularity. ;)