Count Down to Obamanation

This will always be Martin Luther King, Jr Day and no matter what is going on it will always keep it's importance and place in my heart. Here in this city today as we take a moment to thank our lucky stars for what's been done for us and what we'll be able to do to make it even better for our kids there is a collective breath being held. All over town I hear the same comment from residents and visitors alike.

The city has never had this kind of buzz about it, feels like we're in New York.

Boy, is that the case! Tomorrow we are expecting 2 million plus people to pack on the very same grass we play kickball on. Even though this is the only story the news has covered for the last year, the vastness of what we get to witness first hand is amazing. We got a sneak peek yesterday as a Star-studded concert was preformed for a 500k plus audience and yes all survived. While I look forward to the festivities of tomorrow, I would be lying if I said I wasn't waiting for it all to be over with.

This political power house of a city has all but shut down, if you make it in by deadline today good luck getting to the ceremony. Don't make it in today? You've got until about 5am tomorrow, but if a bridge is your plan, turn around and go home because they are all shut down the list of walkable bridges is very slim to top that off. As I said the city and people are buzzing, with excitement, concern, dis-belief, hope, pride and happiness for many. People from the A-list to the Z-list role in fill every last hotel room all to freeze their keesters off and witness.

As I drive through the city hearing sirens in every directions, see police on every facet of transportation, and read license plates from all over the country I can't help but wonder. Is our great city ready for all this? Tomorrow and after we'll be changing not just us but the whole country and letting out that big breath we've all been holding since election day. I am comforted as I drive past a bus stop that has been plastered with stickers all saying the same thing

Yes we can.-n

Photo taken at the Lincoln Memorial

Day in the Life

My daily wind-down starts with a bumper to bumper commute, which is the only kind I know being born and raised in this area. More often than not I get the comment of

'That's so weird! No one here, is from here.'

But after some serious searching I have found a few life-timers and most with the similar outlook that we love Washington and the life it comes with.

I would say I've become one with the commute, and look forward to it as a time to reflect on the days events and whats to come. What went well, what went terrible, who went crazy, where the nights hot spot is and what she wore. Some funny, some sad, some to bad not to laugh at, but all observations from a day in the life of me.

- n

Photo taken at the Washington Botanical Gardens