48 Hours to GO

The new update is that if we meet at a predetermined place at 6 am on the morning of the Inauguration we can do through a security check, get on a bus and will be taken to the place where we will view the Swearing In.  Then!  A bus will take us to the viewing stand right across from the new President so we can watch the parade - and him.  So, we will get to do both after all. This sent me right to REI to buy long underwear and mountaineering gloves.  We are going to be there wearing all of our clothes at once and be outside for 9 hours.  I hope there is an opportunity to purchase an Irish Coffee along the way.  

We also learned on a conference call yesterday that there will be 11,000 people at the Western States Ball that night.  They suggested we eat before we go so we don't stand in a "noodle line" for an hour.  So, the voting is in and I am wearing the brown fluffy outfit hoping that the girth of the skirt will give us a little breathing room. ( I am really glad we decided to go to the benefit dinner on Monday night with Alice Waters cooking.  I am hoping it will be a smaller group.)

Next report from the East Coast........here we go..........