Inauguration Celebration!!

After a very fun Friday night out, I spent Saturday (1/17) recovering, grocery shopping ($34.01), watching Netflix and generally taking it very, very easy.  On Sunday, I tried to go to the concert on the Mall, but got there waaaaay too late to get in, and so instead met up with Emma for drinks at The Bottom Line.  From there we went to Buffalo Billiards to watch the Steelers game ($13) with Maureen and friends.  Alexis and Will met up with us there, and the three of us headed to U St for more frivolity at Solly's and Stetson's.  I stopped by 7-11 on the way home for drunk snacks ($9.71), and went to bed very happy that I still had three more days off, and that Barack Obama would be inaugurated in less than two days!

On Monday I spent another very lazy day at home, and then headed over to Ross' on Capitol Hill to spend the night in order to be closer to the action in the morning.  Picked up a 12 pack of Yuengling on the way ($11.98).  Didn't sleep much because it seemed like every firetruck, police car and ambulance in the District was tearing up and down Pennsylvania Avenue with their sirens on full-blast.  It happened so much that when we woke up ay 7am to get to the ceremony the first thing I did was check the internet for some terrible disaster at the Capitol.  Fortunately, there was none.

Had a terrible time getting into the inauguration event, even with a ticket, and even getting in line before 8am, luckily we did finally make it in (lots of people didn't) around 11:20, in time to see all the speeches and hear all the music and generally take note of the magnificence of what was occuring all around us.  The roar of the 2 million crowd from the Mall is a sound I will never forget!  That night, Alexis and Ross organized a lovely dinner at Ulah Bistro for a delightful group of friends ($35), and we spent the rest of night bar hopping ($24) and party-crashing ($20).  I picked up drunk snacks on my way home around 4am ($7.29), and fell to bed knowing that the world was already a better, safer place.

At some point over the weekend I took out $50 from the ATM, but I have no idea where I spent it (cabs, drinks, food, who knows?)

Total $ for Inauguration Celebration: $204.99