started @ 430amest (130ampst) Got dressed [ 3 shirts 1 thermal tee 1 light jacket 1 heavy jacket 1 thermal pants 2 boxers 3 pairs of socks 1 pair of jeans. ] Before leaving the house i was sweating. 530amest we left the house and headed for the metro station. 63oamest ended up at metro station, and damn it was paaaccked. Now we could have either taken another train to closer area, or walk 1.7miles to where we needed to be. We had my grandpa with us and hes a 76 year old man, that needs a cane but doesn't believe he does. Now my grandpa did the million man march in the same vicinity and he swears that he could do the walk. So.. we walk.. and damn there was a lot of people walking. black,white,asian,mexicans,people from other countries. It was like a movie .. secret service everywhere, cops, under cover agents, snipers on buildings. It was pretty epic. After about a 45 minute walk, we get to the Washington DC Mall. Pretty much the grassy area between the Lincoln Memorial, and the Capital Building. we got to the area that we were going to view the historic day around 845am. Now we wait.. and wait.. during this time, I walked around and snapped photos. Around 11amish, the mall was packed. people just overjoyed of this day. Singing, smiliing, hugging, this day is a joyous day for everyone on that mall strip. After "So help me god" you can see everyone smiling, hugging,crying, just happy to be at that spot at that time at that moment to see this day.. Now here is where the chaos begins. So... i guess the event organizers didn't want people in the mall to go the the presidential parade, so they blocked off our exits, We couldn't leave the mall for about an hour. Doesn't seem so bad right.. wrong. they didn't tell us that the exits were closed and that we had to wait. So imagine 1.8 Million people walking around trying to leave but they can't. chaos. Finally after about an hour we finlly get out of the mall, and walk with the crowd. oh yeah forgot to add. We lost my grandfather for about an hour, because he decided to take off in the crowd. i found him. haha it was like finding a needle in a haystack really. haha. So now were headed back to the train station, and the streets are packed. we could barely walk. Everyone chanting, and saying "OBAMA OBAMA" You could just tell that everyone was having a great day. Finally we got back to the train station and came home. I post processed some photos but not all. If you view them @ flickr, that isn't all the photos . The internet here is quite slow, and wouldn't upload large files. Once i get home ill mos def update them all. Heres some photo's:
ps. no song of the day.
psps. happy birthday again father.
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