Yes I Did!

So, I was just going to stay home and watch history unfold on television but my wonderful, loving and very important husband ended up getting my mom and I awesome tickets to the inauguration with seats literally about 100 yards from where our 44th President was being sworn in. And then, as if that wasn't cool enough, the hubby got the hook up and brought us all the way up to the lower seating area, right underneath the stage to watch the events. It was amazing and it was so cool to witness this day first hand.




In the morning, my mom and I bundled up and joined the hoards of people getting on the Metro, packed in like sardines and made our way down town. Slowly, but surely, we got there. Once in the city we were treated like royalty with the amazing tickets we had. I'm not exaggerating. Once we showed our tickets, the police waived us through at every check point. We passed lots of unfortunate people with either no tickets or tickets that were not as good as ours and made our way to our amazing seats.

Once we were seated the hubby called me to ask if we would like to move up to the stage area...Uhhh, yeah! So, we headed up front. Unfortunately, even being very close up, you could see Obama and the others much better on the jumbo tron, which was still fine with me. His speech was inspiring and really powerful.











As we were walking up to the main stage we passed Halle Berry. She was so cute and I just couldn't help myself, I said, "hi Halle Berry" and she looked and me, waved and said hello. It was funny. Once on the stage area, I missed my shots of Jay-Z and Beyonce, which I am not too upset about, but I did get some fun pictures of some other celebs. There's Denzel Washington, Smokie Robinson, an actress from the show The Wire and basketball player Dikembe Mutombo.

It was just awesome to be part of such an amazing day. We even got to see Executive One take off with Mr and Mrs Bush inside headed back to Andrews Air Force Base and then eventually back to Texas. Bye Bye Bushy!

I know that the whole country, and really, the whole world is hopeful for the U.S. right now with Barack Obama coming into office but it's going to be a long road and there is a lot of work to do. I feel bad for our new president and the tasks he has in front of him. I hope we're not putting too much pressure on him because in reality, he is just one man. He can't solve this country's problems in one day, or even possibly his entire term in office. I pray that he is successful in all of his endeavors and I'll support him all that I can. Despite the state of our nation, it is an amazing time in history and I am so proud to be a part of it.

Since there are so many, here is a link to my pictures from the inauguration:

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