So, as we all know, there was an "event" today in DC. Being as that's where I currently live, I thought I'd check it out. However, if anyone (esp. Stogi and GP) turns this in to a political thread and gets it locked, I will hate you forever.
Any, I should probably start with last night. I didn't sleep for various reasons. Those really aren't important. Just know that I went to bed at 2 with the intention of getting up at 4. Anyway, I woke up a quarter to 5 feeling like ****. I texted my friend who had overslept about 7 minutes less than I did. We eventually agree to go, since we had planned on it earlier. We leave around 5:30 without one friend who left with a crowd and didn't call anyone, like a jackass.
So, we start walking down there. I'm wearing boots and that **** is hurting my feet/legs. The lack of sleep didn't help either. The cold also wasn't too bad. We make it to the metro station, and I'm already tired. We decide we check to see if it was crowded before we continued walking. It wasn't really crowded because too many people couldn't figure out how to buy cards, so no one was waiting on trains. We just missed one because our urgency detectors didn't go off until it was too late. Thankfully, the next one came in no time. We get off at China Town to resume walking and the crowd was MASSIVE.
We had to walk around people who were being slow. There were a lot of vendors out selling Obama paraphernalia; hats, hoodies, buttons, shirts, signs, posters, perms, weave, etc. The crowd was so big, even the vendors were like, "DAMN!" So, we're walking down 7th (I know you don't know where that is, so shut up), but we decided to circumvent the crowd. We eventually get stopped by a road block that was only letting ticket holders through. We got passed this by going in to a cafe and walking out the back door. It was that easy. The next series of barricades were avoided by going through some back alleys. Again, that easy.
Eventually we make it to an entry point. There was a deli near by, and it looked warm. We decided to go in, but the food made us hungry. Naturally, we ate a hearty breakfast and washed it down with some hot cocoa. Our friends were out somewhere in the cold, and we didn't pity them.
Eventually, they started letting people through. We got in and started walking around. We were stuck across the street from the National Mall. We tried to get over there, but to no avail. We eventually found ourselves in a restaurant with heat and bathrooms. The line was ridiculous. We waited in it for all of 2 minutes when we realized that the line was entirely female. Walking past and rounding the previously unmentioned corner lead us to a barely crowded men's room.
We then call some friends and see if we can get across the street. There were too many snipers on the rooftops for us to try and make a distraction and run for it. So, we make for the 3rd Street Tunnel. The tunnel wasn't that crowded, at first. As we got deeper in, the number of people became staggering. It would've taken at least an hour to get through, and then more security. We decided it wasn't worth it and headed back. We watched the inauguration on TV, in the dorm's club room. I feel asleep as soon as Obama stopped talking.
The End. . ?
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