2 posts tagged “inauguration”

After we made it through the tunnel we had to face the crowds. The whole "getting in" thing was poorly organized, and we stood for about two hours in a crowd of people with silver tickets that was basically shoulder-to-shoulder just waiting for someone to tell us what was going on!

This man took the crowds as an opportunity to sell some t-shirts on top of his car:

Here's about where we were from the capitol building where the events occurred. As you can see, it's pretty far back. What you can't see is that it was actually a pretty good place to be: there were thousands behind us!

Here's the screen where we watched the events (you can see Biden on there becoming VP). What sucked was that we were in hearing range of three sets of speakers that were all at different rates, and none of them matched up to the lips moving on our screen! The best part about about the whole thing was just being there with all those people who were so excited!

We stood near the reflection pond. As you can see here, it was frozen over which gives you an idea of how cold it was! I was too excite to be cold, and given how many people were packed together, the body heat kept us pretty warm.

I remember while I was there I overheard someone say "next time we should..." and I started thinking, next inauguration? And I laughed, because while it was a wonderful experience, for me it's once in a lifetime. Never again!