As a few of you may have heard, there's going to be an HISTORIC EVENT in Washington DC on January 20th. I have no desire to fight the cold and the crowds, but did want to see the city all set up for the inauguration. I rode into work with Kent last week (it's about a 40 minute drive when traffic co-operates) and we went to see where the inauguration will take place. Everything around the capitol building was blocked off so we couldn't get too close, but we still got some pretty good pictures. One thing you can't see too well are the thousands of chairs that are set up.
But as you'll note from the last few pictures posted here, what we mostly saw EVERYWHERE in the city was porta-potties. Rows and rows of them in every open field. (insert corny joke here--"There's going to be a really big POTTY in DC this week.") I've read there are over 3,000 porta potties, and that's still only about one porta-potty per 500 people who are expected to be in DC for the inauguration. See why I don't want to be there? At least the temperatures have warmed up to the 30's today; it was only in the teens on Friday. Kent has inauguration day off from work-all federal employees do--since most of the roads into DC will be closed on Tuesday.
And in terms of history being made, our family chipped away at the Berlin wall back in 1989, so we've had our turn at being present when history was being made. That's pretty hard to top.
This is the stand where the swearing in will take place.
But as you'll note from the last few pictures posted here, what we mostly saw EVERYWHERE in the city was porta-potties. Rows and rows of them in every open field. (insert corny joke here--"There's going to be a really big POTTY in DC this week.") I've read there are over 3,000 porta potties, and that's still only about one porta-potty per 500 people who are expected to be in DC for the inauguration. See why I don't want to be there? At least the temperatures have warmed up to the 30's today; it was only in the teens on Friday. Kent has inauguration day off from work-all federal employees do--since most of the roads into DC will be closed on Tuesday.
And in terms of history being made, our family chipped away at the Berlin wall back in 1989, so we've had our turn at being present when history was being made. That's pretty hard to top.
This is the stand where the swearing in will take place. 
4 comments:
Funny "joke"! How fun for you to be able to get pictures of where everything will take place. I can't imagine how crazy DC will be in a couple days.
Stay warm!
I can't believe people are going to brave crowds that size! Was it really 20 years ago that we were chipping off pieces from the Berlin Wall?
There is no way I would want to be there either. With us still not having TV we won't get to see it so thanks for the pictures.
another connection, I have become good friends with Krista. You must have been in the same ward we are in now! What a small, small world.
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