No food, no drink, no bathroom.

For 10 hours, Eric Witt, the Governor's head of media industries development, a receptionist and a New Mexico State Police officer were locked in the Roundhouse's reception area after an envelope containing a suspicious white powder was opened. "I was walking by the front desk when she opened the thing. She goes 'Uh oh. White powder,'" Witt said.

"I go, 'Don't move.'" Everybody froze. Well, everybody except the officer who came in to find out what was happening. He tried to escape, he said, "I tried to walk out, and they said, uh uh, you're not going anywhere."

For 10 hours. All three were stuck together for 10 hours while the FBI and response teams from the New Mexico National Guard and the U.S. Army quarantined the building and locked the three of them in the reception area.

The powder didn't explode into a cloud like it does in the movies when someone opens an envelope like this.

"It was grainy like sand. It gave us pause," Witt said - but no one wanted to touch it.

Previous reports from other governors' offices who had been sent suspicious powder as well this week had said that the powder was baby powder or flour. "But this was neither of those," Witt said.

Once the trio realized they weren't dead, or going to die, it was just an agonizing waiting game, Witt said.

"It was just like, oh man, come on," he said. "We just sat there for hours. We couldn't go. "

"They locked us down like gorillas in the zoo," he said.

The trio had to strip down and don decontamination suits and shower down.

"They did what they had to do. Had it been the real stuff, and they had some indications that some of it (sent to other governors) could have been positive, we were scared."

But, by the fifth hour, he said, the three were eagery to do anything else.

"From our perspective, it was sit around and wait."

Dan Mayfield