In a word....WOW!

Wow, wow, wow! It's not even 8 am on Monday and I am just blown away by the festivities and feeling here in DC.

Saturday morning we woke up and meandered next door to the adjacent mall in Pentagon City and picked up some souvenirs of our visit for friends and family. Then, using our favorite and preferred mode of transportation for the weekend, the Washington Metro, we headed into the city.

I insisted that we pick up our commemorative SmartTrip cards right away and not miss out out on having and using while we were here. I'm glad we did because we heard they were 'sold out' online.

We then headed toward the capitol building and had a chance to get into the Library of Congress (at Cameron's request) just before it closed. You can only take picutues in selected areas, but trust me when I say, it was awesome. We saw the Gutenberg bible, looked over into the 'reading room' and spent time examining various maps of the world including the 1507 Waldseemuller

My dear friend Ava then picked us up and we toured the city including driving the parade route, passing by the new Native American Museum and scooting by the site of the actual inauguration. This is as close as we'll get to the podium, but, man, what a shot.

Sunday, we woke up and got a workout in at the hotel fitness center (I love my in-home Precor EFX, but I know which one I want to get next) and then headed off to church. We attended St. Augustine's Catholic church - the same church we attended when we lived in DC and the church where Coretha and I were married 20+ years ago! We then took the metro down to the ''We Are One'' concert that kicked off the weekend's events. When you see the scenes on TV and you see the Washington Monument off in the distance, imagine standing directly in front of the monument overlooking the scene and this is what you'd see


I'll try to be more timely with 'today's' post, and I'll upload all the pictures I'm taking - the good ones anyway - and include a link to them so you can see them, but again...wow!