Hello everyone! Melanie and I are here in DC for the “thing”. It’s a little hard to describe just how overwhelming the experience is.
This “event” is filled with many many acts of kindness and numerous gifts along the way. I will quickly try to acknowledge those who were part of my experience, even if you were not actually with me today.
I want to thank everyone in GA who helped to elect President Obama. Without your hard work, today would not have happened. I’m fortunate to have a husband who humors me and my political addiction. He has wonderful co-workers who offered their apartments and helped transfer keys. Thank you to Mary Long who kicked off the weekend with tickets to the Jazz Brunch and gave us the opportunity to hear Ambassador Young give a touching and wonderful speech. Thank you to George Birchby for gifting me his tickets, thank you to “Big D” who furnished us with da’bomb of after inauguration reception tickets at Union Station (which I believed saved our lives).
I’m a bit tired, so I’m going to try to quickly give you some bullet points from today.
-People people everywhere. Seriously, we were greeted by crowds of gianormous size at every Metro stop. I’m a city girl- NYC to be exact-and even I was shocked.
-The Metro employee who looked out at the sea of humanity at our stop and said “WOW”.
-Is this the line? Really?
-The stupidity of local businesses who blocked parking lots and threatened folks with towing, or the Holiday Inn that kicked people out trying to get warm and not putting the tv on so folks could watch in their lobby.
-Fur… OMIGOD I haven’t seen that many fur coats since Fred the Furrier had his end of year sale in 1987. Good thing the PETA folks were not around.
-The Obamalicious button-HUGE hit. Could have sold lots of those.
-The cold…numbing and daunting-seriously no real way to prepare.
-The Fabulous Hat moment on Miss Franklin vs. not fabulous hat moment of Poppy Bush
-The tears… yes there were tears. It takes you by surprise when it overwhelms. But they were the good kind.
-Glad I didn’t have to find out what was in those port-a-potties.
-The way everyone wanted to know where you were from, and wanted to tell their story.
-The scale of the super structure he was standing on. It was scary big, glad I wasn’t up there.
-The crowd looked like America, and it was intensely personal for everyone we met.
-The cops, soldiers, transit police etc. who tried not to look like they were are scared, even though I think it had its moments.
-How I got to meet a former Congressman while online at the Metro-very cool guy not throwing his weight around, patiently waiting like the rest of us.
-In the spirit of the day-all DFI fines were suspended.
Finally I apologize in advance to all of you who tried to text and email me today to get something in real time, or were worried about us. But the cell coverage like all the systems today were jammed. In addition so much was happening we really needed to keep our wits about us.
Tomorrow we plan to crash the DNC meeting… woohoo…
If you have any stories today, please add in comment.
Leave a Reply