Posts Tagged “2008 election”

It’s currently posted in the Metro and/or “around town” here in D.C. If you live/work here or are coming in this weekend for the inauguration, could you please keep an eye out? If you see it, please try to get a photo of it in person; the guy in the photo is a former housemate of mine from New York and he would (obviously) enjoy seeing the ad out in the world.

Let me know if you see it! Thanks!

Happy inaugural weekend!

Well, we didn’t do all that much in Chicago, honestly. It was pretty challenging with Brian’s conference, and the election celebration kind of knocked us both out for yesterday (though Brian did make it to class — good job, Brian!). Then today, after several days of unseasonably warm (balmy, even) weather and sunshine, things took a turn and we had pretty serious clouds and scattered rain, so it wasn’t the most pleasant day for exploring. But we do have a few more things to share from our trip, such as the view from our hotel room!

We could see the Sears Tower (kind of hard to spot in this photo, but it’s there in the background to the left of the red crane) and the river and everything. Nice! And today, despite the rain, we did go back down to Millennium Park & Grant Park to see it in the daytime without a quarter of a million other people there, and we visited The Bean:

I love a bean. I also loved seeing the banners that arrived yesterday:

We’ll have to return to Chicago at some point to do more awesome stuff! We’re in Ohio now at a Super 8 outside Toledo and should get home by late tomorrow.

Brian and I were so lucky to be in Chicago tonight and to be able to attend the Obama rally in Grant Park (which is within walking distance from our hotel). I wish I had a better command of language so I could express to you how overwhelming, incredible, special, inspiring, moving, and amazing our evening was; things being as they are, I’m just going to show you some pictures from our night.

On the way back to our room, Brian and I were talking about the unlikely series of events in our lives that brought us here to Chicago and to this moment — and how lucky we are that we’ve had this amazing handful of months in which pretty much every day we’ve gotten to do something that we’ll both remember forever. We feel truly fortunate to have been here for this historic night! America, thank you for voting!! YES WE CAN!!!