Inauguration Drama

So, we have our spot on the Mall, and we've been standing around for a few hours and watched the sun come up. On the big video screens, they were playing the concert from Sunday night, and lots of us started dancing to the singing because our toes were starting to freeze. Plus, we were all a bit "punchy."

It was very crowded, and people were trying to get through the crowd, but there was no place to go. I started to bond with my neighbors over this....

Then, the Tour Guide comes up and says she has an even better spot-- more room to move around, closer to the Capitol, and good viewing of a screen. Some of us (like me) didn't want to move, some did. The "some did's" won out, and we moved with the Tour Guide.

There are no pictures of where she took us, because I didn't feel like taking any pictures. You could see the screen if you were over 5 ft 5, which most of our kids were not. Tour Guide's statement, "Oh, people have moved in here since I last saw this place." Seriously.

A couple of the kids started crying, and Sam was very upset that he couldn't see anything.

I forgot to mention that our adult to child ratio on this trip was optimal. Each parent attending was responsible for his/her child and one other. Well, the Teacher asked my other charge, not to be confused with Sam, if he wanted to go to the Air and Space Museum to warm up. He said, "yes." So, Sam and I were left with some of the others-- the group had been separated by this point-- and neither one of us was happy that he couldn't see anything from where we were. I told the others that were left that Sam and I were going to find somewhere else so that he could see the proceedings.