The Inauguration

There are times in life when we decide it would be a good idea to spend nearly 36 hours outside in Washington D.C. in January. Minus the fact that some majority of the 1.5million people most likely got sick it was an amazing experience. I along with 2 other Suffolk Students were fortunate enough to get tickets to the inauguration. So when the party started early Sunday morning we got on the band wagon and enjoyed the day. Making one of the few smart decisions we did we slept Sunday night into Monday. At 8am Monday morning we left our apartment in what would become an epic journey to the center of one of the biggest parties in the nations history. We walked around DC for the better part of the day and finally go to our security gate at about 1am Tuesday morning with an estimated 30,000 other people. We waited until 6am when they opened the gates and let a crowd of nearly 125,000 people storm the Washington Mall. So by 7am we were standing 5 rows back from the reflecting pool by Congress waiting the 4 hours for the ceremony to start. By the time it did there were about 1,500,000 people standing around, but mostly behind, us waiting and cheering. When the moment came for Obama to come to center stage the sheer volume of the crowd could have tossed you off your feet. The world watched as we watched a part of history that is not soon to be forgot. The ride back to Bethesda MD took hours more, but it was most surely time well spent in my opinion.