My most excellent roommate and I told our charges that we would be calling them at 4:15 in the morning to get up to go to the Inauguration.
I called up there at 4:15, and they were already up and almost ready. Everyone was super excited. I believe we boarded the bus at 5 a.m. Guess what-- driving into D.C., the Driver couldn't figure out where he was, and the Driver and Tour Guide proceeded to argue over whose GPS was actually going to get us there. Needless to say, we all became apprehensive.
But, we made it. As we were driving into D.C., we saw soldiers setting up road blocks and people walking towards the Mall. At one point, we started seeing what looked like hundreds of people walking towards the Mall, which made us kind of nervous.
Not to worry, our tour bus was stopped, and a nice young man got on. He asked where we were from, and when we replied, "California," he was quite impressed (or at least he pretended to be impressed). Anyway, he told us that the roads were closed, and we had to walk to rest of the way to the Mall. He didn't quite understand how relieved we were to be forced to get off the bus.
So, we joined the hundreds that were becoming thousands of people walking to the Mall. We filled the entire street. It was freezing, but everyone was so happy and excited that we just kind of buzzed along. As we got closer to the Mall, there were volunteers saying, "Welcome to the Inauguration," and "Not much further now." We replied, "Thank you."
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