Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A Warm Day

It was a toasty day in a lot of ways, although we bundled up tight. Inauguration day, January 2009! Grandma Gardner babysat for Gabriel while Alison and I hunkered down by the World War Two memorial (cleverly situated close to the Jumbotron and sound systems, so we saw and heard everything better than most, I bet) to see Barack Obama usher in a new era of theocratic-socialist rule. We're all a bit apprehensive to see whether Obama will start by taking our guns or our hard-earned pay. It's a difficult choice. Whichever he chooses, I, for one, welcome our new Muslim overlords.
Here Anke Meyer was nice enough to snap a picture of us as we shivered our way homeward. Anke was volunteering as a "bike valet," a clever service offered by WABA. 16th Street south of K was shut down and hundreds of bikes were penned in-- a scene reminiscent of Amsterdam.