It was the most amazing, powerful, inspiring, moving, emotional, tiring, worth it, spectacular experience to be in D.C. yesterday Jan 20th 2009 for the Inauguration of President Barack Obama! It was SO worth the 2day with 3 hours sleep, hardly any food, and sickness. We had planned to leave at 1am and get to DC by 5am.....but after a couple of incident we didnt leave NY until 330 getting to DC at around 730....the trains thank god werent THAT crowded....but the stations closest to Penn ave/the Naional Mall were packed. I had made arrangements for HL to have press tickets for the Newseum, thinking it would get us easy access inside...boy was I 95% wrong lol. At first we were stuck waiting outside freezing our toes, noses, and fingers off on a huge line to get into the Newseum...but thankfully as we were prob about to suffer from hyperthermia (lol) Mike, who works for the Newseum, came around and swept us right in, Shouts to Mike, Gene, Tina and ESP Jonathan from the Newseum for making it such a pleasurable experience for us!!! We got to watch everything from the 4-D Movie theater on a big screen. The Newseum is an amazing place, and we should SO take an HL trip there. We were all SO tired...but I hope we got some good content/footage to make acouple of stories for the website. Nyiesha, Kendra and DayDay should all write memoirs about the experience and make those 3 extra stories. It was so moving and emotional when Obama was being sworn in EVERYONE stood along with him and held their breath and soaked it all in while he took oath! Seeing the snipers on the roofs was pretty cool....I had never seen anything like that before. When the parade passed in front of us we were inside the Newseum and only caught a glimpse at the car...about a block after he passed us he got out! bummer we missed that footage, but they had the streets blocked off (we were unaware) and would have had to leave like 2 or even 3 hours before to get a good spot.
Sorry no-one liked Cracker Barrel lol!.....but it was CHEAP decent food!!!...and better than nothing!....our next big/long trip we should book a hotel that way the driving will be easier and we will have a bit more energy to get a tad bit more interviews done.
Getting out of "RED" train on Judiciary Station in DC
There were people EVERYWHERE when we got out of the train station!
Auditorium we watched "The Moment" from.....this was like 20min before the Swearing in...so it got more packed by then.
All in all it was ONE of the best experiences of my life and Im sure for all of us that went AND everyone who was in DC that night.
Getting out of "RED" train on Judiciary Station in DC 
