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That was awesome. Pictures soon, but mostly they are pictures of vast mobs of people, because there were vast mobs of people on the Mall. We weren't able to get on the parade route but thankfully they did not have checkpoints or closures to get to the National Mall. So we watched everything standing outside with, well, about 2 million people, and probably I couldn't see as well as you could on your living room TV, but being there, next to the Washington Monument, in view of the Capital building, and part of that massive crowd - it was worth the several hours of being cold and walking and standing. Well worth it.

People cheered a lot at various things - but they were also reverently quiet during the music, the swearing-in, and the speech. Really. A crowd of millions and they were all silent, attentively watching and listening. That says a lot.

azure_armand's entry is better than mine - for those of you who can see it anyway.