One in a Million

I honestly don't remember right now at which station I got off the train; I just remember the conductor saying that the stop was "a very good stop to get off the train and go to the Mall." So I did, and it was.

One advantage of being alone is that it was easier to squeeze myself through crowds to find a place that I liked and I had about two hours to do it. I wished I had on better tree-climbing clothes, because that would have been a great view but chilly! At one point I made it as close to the Capitol as I could get without a ticket, but I was too far off to one side and I couldn't see any of the big screens. So I wandered toward the middle and toward the Washington Monument and that's where I spent the last hour or so and where I watched the actual swearing-in.

On my way there, I made a few new friends... apparently this Park Police horse wanted to know if I has a flavor. :-) And yes, I put my hat right back on after this was taken because it was flippin' cold!

People were obviously trying hard to stay warm and comfortable. I saw quite a few "people piles" . . .

. . . and an Audi ad. Even when I'm not at work, it still follows me around.

Still more to follow. Please stay tuned!

Yes We Can . . .

. . . make a half-hour train ride take two hours. I ran down the broken-escalator-now-stairs when I got to the station, and found a spot on the last car of the train. The last car is usually the one with the fewest people, and even though I couldn't sit down, this one had more standing room until we got to the second stop. About 20 more people got on my car, and from that point on no one else could get on the train until people started getting off -- about two hours and 10 stations later.

Despite not being able to let on more passengers, the trip took two hours because the trains were backed up from letting people off downtown. We kept hearing changing announcements about which stations were still open, because some stations are always closed during big events and others closed sporadically if they got too crowded.

More to come!

OMG, it's almost here and I don't have anything to wear!!

Calm down, I'm not going to one of the balls (*sniff*). This is really a test to see how blog posts look when I send them from my cell. I am going into DC for the big chaos on Tuesday because I'm nuts, but that means that YOU don't have to! Get a Michigoose view of the Inauguration of the 44th President.

Some things never change.

I got a new sewing machine for Christmas! It hasn't arrived from Michigan yet, but I was getting started cutting out a new pair of pajamas when Giselle decided to practice the time-honored feline pastime of getting right in the middle of what a favorite person is trying to do. I think she likes the crinkly pattern paper.