Making History: Presidential Inauguration 2009

Greetings from our nation's capital! Chadd and I are spending our vacation celebrating the inauguration of our 44th president with millions of other elated Americans. The entire city of Washington D.C. is preparing for this one event and for the unprecedented amount of people who have showed up to support "the change."
It is obvious here that President-elect Obama has been accelerated into stardom. His picture is everywhere and on everything! Even though it is a brisk 17 degrees on Capitol Hill, vendors are still selling items like Obama flip-flops.
If the flip-flops don't suit you, try Obama tabasco sauce for a little bit of Hail-to-the-Chief heartburn! If you can't read the label, it says "HEAT we believe in." Take one home to your friends!
With all marketing crazes aside, we were able to get up close to the location of the swearing-in ceremony that will take place on the back of the Capitol Building. Ticket holders will have the privilege of being able to stand "near" the ceremony while others must rely on jumbo-tron screens. All in all, nobody will really be able to see anything up close. I think secret service wants it that way.
I will try to keep a daily update as things around here start to materialize. We have only been here one day, but we already managed to get in on MSNBC's live filming of Hardball and cheered on Obama's Amtrak brigade as it rolled into D.C. carrying our future Commander in Chief.