balls are not easy on the feet. i don't remember taking my shoes off at the FR one last year but definitely at the real inaugural ball for Bush1 i had them off on the street outside and on the way home. my feet never hurt as badly as then.
Backwards as usual.
It wasn't the ball that did it........it was making a wrong turn when we got off the Metro......we walked 4 blocks in the wrong direction....so we turned a short block walk into a 12 block trek....my feet hurt before we even got there!!!
A group of us were siting in the bar chatting have a cigarette and I just gave up on them.
Bless my hubby's heart..........he had the valets get us a cab to get back to the metro station....there was no way I could have walked it.
We met a great group of college kids in th metro station who had also been to the FR ball...........they got up and made me sit down when they saw me with the shoes in my hand!
I saw your comments about the snowballs and the protesters...........several of the FReepers got caught in the cops pepper spray attack on protestors, so they weren't being ignored!!!