Inauguration Part II The Ball

To quote one of my favorite TV shows (arrested development)...Those are Balls.

After making it home to our apt we took a quick nap got food, and changed into our formal attire.

Again it was super hard getting INTO the city. No taxi was available so we decided to have peter's parents drive us. All the bridges were planned to open at 5pm, and it was now 7:30. Should be easy right? wrong again. only the 395 bridge had re opened.

Luckily we still made it on time, and got in just fine to go to the Western Ball

It was strange to see the convention center all done up for a formal event since I'm use to seeing the Car show there. Miraculously we ran into most of our friends right away since cell phone service was again down.

After some dancing, drinking, eating, and photography we were directed to the far stage to see Marc Anthony. He was pretty good, but not my type of music. We decided to wander around when we heard "now, I'd like to do something impromptu" yeah right. I perk up and run back to the stage to see him introduce his wife Jennifer Lopez to sing with him. It was awesome.

We were then told that President Obama (i like saying that) would not arrive till 12:30/1...now remember, we had woken up at 5:30am and this did not sound like a good plan.

we then heard over the loudspeaker "ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your cell phones and return to the stage for the next part of the program"....it turned out to be Joe and Jill Biden which was still cool, but we still had plenty of time to wait for Mr President himself.

At that moment One of the guys in our group's Girlfriend came over who had been working at the ball for months organizing things and she came with a friend bearing gifts...VIP section tickets.

AWESOME. so we took the tickets, entered the section and found a spot in the front right near nancy pelosi. As if that werent lucky enough, Mr. President and his beautiful wife showed up at 11:45! Awesome! He came out, said a few words that seemed totally un planned and casual and comfortable, and then said "if you dont mind, i'd like to dance with the woman who has been with me and supported me, and done everything i've done, except in heels". And they danced and it was cute.

Then everyone made a mass exodus to the door and the night was over. Great day, great night, hopefully great next 4 years.