I was there too! Posted an After event thread
We have been around FreeRepublic for a long time. Thank you, Jim Robinson.
I’m putting the FR Inaugural Ball in my top twenty most fun things that I’ve ever done- list.
I literally walked down Pennsylvania Avenue the morning after the inauguration.
A friend and I had taken a cab to the US Park Service building at 4am, Sunday morning, from our hotel, to get in line for tickets to the White House, open for a three hour public tour later that same day.
Once we got our tickets, we left on foot and found that the street that the President of the United States had driven down just hours before, from the Capitol bldg., to the White House, was still closed.
Crews were reinstalling the traffic posts and lights, and undoing the welded shut manhole covers, so the street remained closed, but beckoned us to walk down it towards the Capitol bldg., and back to the friendly and warm confines of our hotel.
We were the ONLY people at that hour walking literally right down the center of Pennsylvania Ave. Try to do that sometime when you get to Wash., DC.
There is only a very short window of time, and, that specific time only comes around- once every four years, when you can do such an interesting thing!
It was EPIC!
The late January DC weather was bone chilling cold as a storm had swept through the area just hours before, coating everything with ice and or snow. Just a dusting in most places, but glazed over almost everywhere else, with enough of an ice accumulation to make it treacherous and freezing. My dress shoes and socks were no match for standing in line for hours on ice cold concrete. What a memory!