The Most Incredible Day Part 1

Sup!

So basically I finally had time to put up my Inauguration Pictures...after three months of non stop life. *lol* People, when I tell you I had to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make this trip happen, I'm telling you, Bugs Bunny himself was not to thrilled about me yanking him out of his house by the ears. Anyway, this was history and I needed to be there. I have a ton of pics but, I have to make this thread short because....it almost 12am, it's after daylight saving time, I just moved several boxes into my new home, I have yet to relax after 8hrs of meetings...a workout session and a trip to Home Depot

Yeah...I'm fried...

let's do this.



So on Monday my travel group with consisted of friends from college ( FAMU), went on the national mall to "scope" out the territory. On our way to Union Station, we run into this guy....









and while running into that guy, we ran into this...



and this..




so we finally get to union station (after buying concert...oops i mean Inauguration Day t-shirts lolol), we run into this...





and after eating Chicago deep dish pizza from Uno's...we run into...




protesters.


This group was protesting the war and ole' girl was laid out on the cold dirty marble floor at Union Station...


so after wading through throngs of countless people, its practically night outside and that's when EVERYBODY came to the Washington Mall..




the news bureaus were in full effect!




Let me tell you, I love crowds and everything but crowds plus cold frozen feet and hands did not make for a warm feeling. I kept thinking about the word "History" and that brought the warm weather dweller back to reality cause a sista kept blackin' out due to the how harsh that cold was...Chicago truly had nothing on that D.C. hawk!! Did you say 23 but felt like 3!! Yeah..


but when I got back to the hotel that night...I made one of these..








living in Florida, I never seen snow. I made a sand angel before but...it just wasn't the same!


I will tell you this...on the day that Tuesday when I woke at 4am, there were a dozen thoughts going through my mind. I thought about my parents, I thought about my college experience. I thought about the 70's, the 60's and every history book I picked up. I will honestly say, I felt a sense of urgency to get on that mall and experience that "once in a lifetime" moment.


at this point, ya girl was in tears. I remembered every piece of black history I learned, through every movie, every book, every article. Every single thing came full circle to that very moment when I saw Barak walk down the stairs to enter into the cold D.C. winter wind to accept his position as 44th president. (I have video of crowd reaction....that will come later)...and I'm glad I shared it with.....



you guessed it...