March on DC

Bryan, Laurel, Linda, Sharon, and me just before we left for home
At one point this lawn was covered with protestors


This man walked with a cast on his leg



This does not do justice to the real crowd
This was a section looking from the west lawn
You do not see all the people on the mall, the
lawn behind the portable potties, east lawn, behind
us on the west lawn, down Pennsylvania Ave or
even the ones walking the side streets pouring
into the area.

Last week, my mother in law, aunt and I marched on Washington, DC to tell our legislators...ENOUGH!!! Enough big government, enough spending, enough interference in our lives and enough corruption.

The news outlets are reporting 75,000 people attended. I beg to differ. The march was scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m. in Freedom Plaza and proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol lawn. The crowds at 7:30 a.m. were so large that the march was forced to start 4 hours early. We arrived mid morning and the march was still in full force with thousands of people pouring into the city from all sides. We proceeded to haul booty down Pennsylvania to meet up with Bryan and Laurel, Glenn's cousins.

The wait for the actual program to start seemed to take forever, but the speakers scheduled for Freedom Plaza moved to the Capitol lawn to speak.

We anticipated that there would be places to sell T-shirts, hats and even food. None were to be found. Fortunately, there were about 50 portable potties lined up along Pennsylvania. Yet, the lines were 1 1/2 hour wait for use of them. Luckily, we found a restaurant nearby with no waiting. It was the University of Wisconsin Alumni meeting site and I kept hoping to spy Greta Van Sustern when I wandered through. I never did :<.

The crowd was the most fervent in their beliefs, yet, well-behaved that I had ever seen. Those who spoke with officials noted that the police commented this was a very large crowd and very well-behaved. It has to be noted that there were no arrests or citations issued the entire day. We all took our trash and left only our desires for a better country behind.

The bus ride was long, 5 hours each way. I was so tired after leaving at 3 am and returning at midnight with hardly any sleep since Friday morning. I know this blog is boring, but I mainly wanted to get some pics up.