That's the train carrying Barack Obama and Joe Biden out of Philly today. Yeah, we were a long way away. We decided even in this cold it was a wise move to take 11 day old Jack out in the cold to see Obama, even if from an extreme distance, and even though he slept through the whole thing.
What was amazing is that there were lots of people around who didn't care that our vantage point was so lousy. We were up on the stairs that lead from Walnut Street down to the bike pathe on the East side of the Schuylkill River, and there were people up there for the same reason we were, to see at a very long distance the new President, Barack Obama, leave the birthplace of this nation, Philadelphia, for his inauguration. A bit inspiring, really, that so many people would come out in the cold.
Jack is a long way from figuring this out and understanding what it all means. He's asleep on the floor beside me right now, dead to the world and with a full tummy. But someday we'll let him know. Someday.
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