Friday, January 23, 2009

Mass Exodus

One of our very favorite moments of the Inauguration day ... was leaving. We headed down the Mall and toward the Lincoln Memorial. The crowd forced us out by way of 18th Street. You really had no choice in what direction you wanted to go because it was so tight with people going north -- you were forced into this one direction. I kept asking people: "where are you going?" or "where are we going?" 
But what was cool was how joyously happy everyone was. It was a helpful, sweet crowd. Guys were climbing on buses to take photos of the street of people and everyone would cheer or scream "OBAMA!"  
As far as you could see in any direction or street, it was filled with people walking. No one was moving fast or could move fast. Just a slow march to the millions of destinations. Not sure we will ever experience anything like it again. 

We headed to Brasserie Beck on 11th and K St. What should have taken us 20 minutes took 2 hours. We had a celebratory lunch with wine, lamb, french onion soup, salads and more cocktails. It was a wonderful follow up for the day.
And warm!

12 comments:

  1. SO jealous. It sounds like perfection (although it was pretty terrific watching it on tv with a nice warm cuppa joe, too)

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  3. Oh come Brian. The American way is to let everyone speak their mind. Keep drinking the koolaid.WW

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  4. Okay Anonymous: You know us. Man on up and tell us who YOU are.

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  5. I told you who I am.

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  6. Oh really? WE know a lot of people. WW tells us nothing.

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  7. Then YOU should take a look around and figure out what is in the koolaid that BHO would have us all drink. I am not a koolaid drinker. I am an AMERICAN who cares about the direction that BHO wants to take this country. I would rather provide for my family than have BHO provide for me. That's the AMERICA our Fore Fathers had in mind for us.ww

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  8. Glad you care about America, too. Keep up the good work! Good-bye.

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