Back in Knoxville

Read this post from the bottom up for the correct timeline. I'm not a good blogger.

We went through Maryland to get out of Virginia Tuesday night. Worked out great!



Exiting with the masses.



The former President leaving office



Several miles of people... unreal



Great seats!



Capital



Goofy hat day.



Something happened up front, and all of the sudden we were on the Mall. We were right in front of 3rd Street in the Silver standing section.



Near pandemonium. I thought we were special because we had tickets, but so did 238,998 other people. It got a little scary in the crush of people as they weren't letting people in, and the people behind us (for blocks?) starting chanting, "Let us in." It worked out and I wasn't crushed to death or gassed.



Getting closer and closer...



The Washington Post suggested that people bring cardboard to stand on. Apparently it keeps the cold from coming up through the pavement and your shoes. I went with a half case of hand-warmers.



So we walked 6 blocks to get to the end of the line...



These crowds don't look bad...



Tickets!!



Bare Knuckle Stout



Noah, Jana, Marc, Scott at the Pug.



Jana and her brother Marc



The Audacity of Soap. Nowhere near the tackiest souvenir.

Go Vols

DC Fire

Washington Monument on the way out

Funny Hats!

Jana!

Noah

Bird

Bird2

Group

Crowd

More crowd

A little bit softer now!!!



Change has been published on a poster

Right afer this, they started gassing the tree people

The horse likes Jana

Lots of love to our Tennessee WWII Veterans. It's an awesome memorial.

What an amazing day. It was a concert with most of the great artists from the last 30 years. Huge thanks to Scott, Becky, Jenny, Steve, Kelly, Adam, Megan, and many other people. Amazing time on the Mall and in Adams Morgan.

The long underwear is on and we're just about to leave for the National Mall. Really looking forward to seeing the Boss and Bono. Will I am will be there but spell check doesn't like the correct punctuation in his name.

Went to Kelly Irish Times last night and danced into the night.

Saturday night

Jenny showed up and I think that we're going to the Irish Times. Hopefully we can find some change there. This is a pretty boring update. I'll have photos later.

1/17/2009
6pm
Scott, Becky, Jana, and I went out for Mexican and stopped at the Captial Brewery afterwards. We got there about 30 minutes before they ran out of special edition InaugurAle glasses (for $8) Anyway, clearly a great investment!

In order:
New Mexico!
Road signs
More road signs
Helicopters!
Microtel Inn
More signs!
Pooh, the patron saint of Interstate travel