[caption id="attachment_270" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Voting from the Post Office in Sofia "]<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/dsc03958.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-270" title="Carolyn Votes" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/dsc03958.jpg?w=300" alt="Voting from the Post Office in Sofia " width="300" height="225" /></a>[/caption]

It's official.  I got my first piece of mail in Bulgaria yesterday and it was my US ballot.  It was good to know that I can actually receive mail here.  I was beginning to wonder if I would ever get my absentee ballot.  So when I finally got my first piece of mail, it seems just perfect that it was my ballot.

In preparation to actually cast my ballot, I put on my Barack Obama tee shirt (for good luck) and roped a friend into going to the post office with me to take a picture of me mailing in my ballot which I hope will in part change the shape and tenor of politics in America.  I just can't stop thinking that I am voting in the most important election of my life from Sofia, Bulgaria. Wow.

So with very little fanfair I filled in all of the little bubbles, sealed the ballot in a series of envlopes and licked 1.3 leva in stamps on the envelope and that was that.  Oh, and I made sure that I didn't put the envelope in the Sofia mail box!

Now if Barack Obama and his election campaign staff would just stop spamming me... I make one campaign donation and now I get emails sometimes three a day from them...but I guess if that's what it takes to win I'm alright with it.