Extremely cold, which I think impeded excitement to some extent, but it was great to be there and the commuter train worked out very well for us. Our previous idea was to park at the farthest out Metro station and move in and out on those. I think it might have been far less pleasant if we had ended up with that option. All the stations we passed were hugely overwhelmed. And the only two people I know who had tickets to the closer in sections ended up not getting in because security couldn't handle the numbers. We were just out on the edge of one of the non-ticketed mass groupings on the Mall, watching and listening on a Jumbotron screen. After three hours of standing around trying to stay warm and listening and watching stuff like the Sunday concert on the Jumbotron, it began to get very exciting and the effort felt quite worthwhile. All in all it was a lot of hullabaloo for those final thirty minutes of anticipation but it felt good.
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- jimlouis 1-22-2009 7:21 pm