January 20, 2009 – Where were you?
January 20, 2009I was here.
*note: I didn’t take these photos — I got them from Yahoo News. I was in that sea of people, but there’s no way I could have gotten such good aerial shots myself!
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I was at home. Watching the Inauguration on TV and really enjoying the fact that I wasn’t freezing my buns off in the cold, cold DC weather
Great photos!
I wish I had come here earlier, I don’t live in dc but I go to school there and could have helped with lodging for sure. My place is Marc train accessible via walking, though it’s a long train ride.
I have to put you on my reader instead of my bookmarks.
The uni’s in DC were off, I had to work in the afternoon so I partied at my home city in the morning and watched it with a group here on telly at a bar, The bar opened at 10 in the morning for the event, went to work and attended another event that evening a “moveon” event. I do kind of wish I attended the Mall event now that it is over.
Another Illinois blogger I read, someone who I have been reading for a long time and who used to work for the Obama campaign on a local level, also went in.
I was there! It was great. Just a remarkable day.
Raven — yeah, I’m sure it must have been kind of nice to be inside watching it, where it was warm…trust me, we really thiought we got frostbite…
Olivia — Sounds like you still had a great time celebrating even without being at the Mall though!
Chris — Yeah, remarkable is definitely the word. When the ceremony started I think everyone completely forgot how cold we were…