An amazingly crowded, unusual, fun, and massive Inauguration Day
If you think you have seen or been in crowds before, it is nothing compared to the situation in D.C. today. As I woke up this morning around 6 and turned on the news, I heard reports that people were all over the city before the sun even rose. When we headed to the Metro stop, we surprisingly boarded the train quite easily. But as the train moved further and further into the city, it filled up. The nice part about it was that despite the volume of people, they were all quite jovial as we headed into the city.
As we got out onto the ground level of D.C. it seemed subdued at first. There weren’t that many people at the stop that Nirav and I got off at because we planned ahead to avoid an area we thought would be full of people. As we headed towards our gate (Purple), we saw a bus sitting in the middle of the exact intersection of where we were heading. Everyone in the crowd seemed quite confused and asked questions of each other. As a half hour or so passed, while we still didn’t move, people became a bit restless. Somehow people started to move foward, but we had no idea where they were headed because the bus was still in the intersection. As we approached the bus, a police officer explained that the bus was in the way and that they needed to get everyone out of the way so it could be removed. The problem was that people didn’t understand where to go because police just said to move away and even go around another corner – to a place that we all thought would not lead us to the Purple gate. So the crowd was confronted with believing the police officers and leaving their spot in the nonexistent line or trusting the cops and turning the corner in hopes that we would be closer to the gate. As the bus moved, and people still said to go the other way, Nirav and I walked around the corner to find another huge crowd…(to be continued)
I will update more on this story along with a tale about how we felt like we were in the movie Daylight (w/ Sly Stallone) because of an unbelievable situation at a Metro stop.
Also I will explain how the vendors in D.C. are unlike anything I have ever seen and how it is a stimulus package itself.
Pardon me while I go watch Kanye West and Kid Rock at the Youth Ball. Perhaps I will be on MTV with my mad dancing skills.
