Barack Hussein Obama: 44th President of the United States, My Journey

So as you all know, this day is far from over, although it has been two, technically three days for me. It's easy to say that I'm exhausted after the biggest journey possible today.

1. Discover your now best friend in the whole world has been holding a ticket for you for the Inauguration!
2. Pick up that ticket, attend the gala, and arrive back at hotel around 1:00am
3. Change and stay overnight at the metro station, only to not be let in until 4:15
4. Rush the station, and catch the first train out; arriving at the capitol at 4:30am
5. Depart from cousin and his friend, to find own seating for over 2 and a half hours
6. Instead of being first in line like you would have been if the guards knew what they were doing, you end up squeezing between the halfway point, pretending to have always been there.
7. Due to no sleep and lack of food proceed to get sick
8. Attempt to leave to go to Union station only to be blocked in
9. Rejoin the throng of people where you are even closer than before, where you also find out that the reason you are not getting in is because the Silver people have breached security! Great....
10. Be stuck in the throng, unable to get out, when they allow only purple ticket people in; that's you!
11. Get pushed and shoved to a point that you are no longer in control of your own feet, but are actually being pulled by people through the gates.
12. Rush through the "intensive" security, due to being on capitol grounds and run as you get ready to hear the speech.
13. Fight with people but alas, get a spot in order to hear the Inauguration speech, 2 minutes before it starts. Then leave promptly to avoid traffic, ha!
14. Having lost batter to both cell phones, proceed to use verizon phones from their store until a now extremely pissed cousin finds you.
15. Get on numerous trains in order to get back to your metro spot, then take the car all the way back to the hotel, pick up McDonald's and do homework.
16. Don't attend any of the balls because by this time you are dead.

This is a run through of having to wait for over 7 hours in freezing cold weather to go inside the gates, but in the end it was definitely all worth it, although it doesn't show from here.

17. When you've come back from your initial exhaustion, actually celebrate the fact that you have a new president. The first amazing, black, cool, awesome, fantastic, 44th president, who has a brilliant wife; Barack Hussein Obama!

After all of this I'm definitely going to be out of it for a while, but it was all worth it. Every second. To hear the people screaming when he accepted the title and then his speech...It was just unbelievable, and before you knew it most of us were hugging and giving out high-fives all around. It was like the day he had won the election, accept only better; because plenty of us had been holding our breaths till this point. There were no threats and overall it went smoothly for him. Now he is the President of the United States and all I have to say at this moment is to give him time! He can do it with our help but only with us working as one!

Anyhow, that's an overall, and it was amazing. I'll bring back pictures, videos and the actual ticket that I was given to go in. I got to meet Oprah and Jessie Jackson on the way, talk about awesome! I was able to ride the metro with Wyclef Jean! And now I'm back in my hotel room, packing up for an early flight back to school, attempting to do the homework I haven't had a moment for, and looking forward to sleep on the plane. Alright, see you guys next week and night night.