Obama Inauguration - Day 6 - Inauguration Day !!!

MJ is PUMPED with her new Obama hat! She put a fur hat on top of it for extra warmth. Crazy looking to me :-p

We woke up that morning at 4am. We made it to the Metro subway around 6 something in the morning. It was packed!

We made it to the National Mall a little after 7. It was packed also.

We felt like a bunch of steaks packed in freezer!

All in all it was a Good Day and a wonderful trip. I have "hope" that Obama will do his thing. But I am in "wait and see" mode until I see some results. I am not on the bandwagon just yet. But I am glad he is our President.

Pictures of the trip are here.

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Obama Inauguration - Day 5 - Martin Luther King Day of Service

On Day 5, we volunteered in the Feeding America event at MLK Jr Library. They gave away food and clothing to who ever that wanted it. Dexter and I helped in line control. MJ, Brittany and her friends helped in assisting people picking out clothes in their size.

Ben Affleck, Josh Groban , Herbie Hancock and MLK III were just a few of the people that came out to represent for the day. They asked me to speak on stage too. But I didn't want to take away the focus of the event toward me. I'm not selfish like that ;-)

Afterward, we headed up to the Acadiana Restaurant. VERY good Louisiana style food. Sort of like an upscale Nola's (also very good).

After that we did some more walking around the capitol and called it a day.

We have to get ready for the BIG day. Tomorrow is party time!!

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Obama Inauguration - Day 4 - "We Are One" Concert

What a great event. Super COLD!! But great.

It was really cool seeing so many people singing along to oldies. And to see everyone so excited about one person, Obbbbbaaammmaa, was crazy.

A ton of celebrities were there too. Jamie Foxx did a pretty good Obama impersonation :-)


What added to this special day... I got on TV!! My local tv station in Indianapolis spotted my wife's Purdue University sweater and called us over. And what made it extra , extra special is our daughter and her friends got interviewed from our local tv station in the California Bay Area. It was a big tv day for my fam. Hey, we should start charging for all these interviews!!


They say around 500 thousand people were there today. Just think how many people will be there for the Inauguration on Tuesday!!! Miiiiiillliiiioooons.

Tomorrow we are participating in the National Day of Service for MLK day. I'll keep y'all posted.

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Obama Inauguration - Day 3 - Smithsonian/African Art

Day 3 of the trip was pretty good. I got to play astronaut at the Space and Science Smithsonian and checked out our African heritage through art at the African Art Smithsonian Museum. Does any of this stuff look scary??

We also picked up our tickets for the Inauguration today. Thanks Mr. Stark!!!

Obama came in to Washington today on the "Obama Express". It was sort of a non-event though. He pretty much hopped out the train, took some pics and dipped out in his bullet plated limo.

Tomorrow we are headed to the Inauguration concert, "We Are One". Should be pretty fun. They have a million artist on the line up.

Obama Inauguration - Day 2 - US Capitol Building

We headed to the US Capitol Building today. This is where Obama will be sworn in. Also they do Senate and Representative stuff here like meetings and voting.

Let me say one thing about the weather here.

IT IS COLD!!!!!
I mean Super Cold:
9F


Growing up in "Nap Town" aka Indianapolis I am built for this weather. But I think living in California is making me soft :-(

Along with the US Capitol Building we checked out the Library of Congress, Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the White House. And of course my wife wanted to stop, in 9 degree weather, and take pictures of every monument. To make it worse, she has just gotten a new camera with a super zoom lens. So she wanted to take close and far away pics of EVERYTHING. In the mean time me and my son are freezing to death. (If you are reading this baby, I looooove you :-) Something I noticed today, it was so cold, the static electricity was really strong. My music head phones shocked me in both ears three times.

Well since I am typing this I made it back to the hotel safe and with all my fingers and toes. And hearing some memorable quotes today from Samuel L Jackson, from the Movie "Snakes on a plane", I knew my hearing was good.

"Stay Classy San Diego"
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We Be Clubbin heads to the Obama Inauguration!

We just landed after traveling for over 10 hour! I'm about to hit the sheets but I wanted to say "what up from DC!"

I will post more from all the stuff I get into. Hollaaaaa!