Inauguration Festivities

Just wondering is anyone going to the Inauguration or any of the Festivities?

Please share with us.

Cira:
I really whish I were.  I'm so giddy inside, like a little child. This is history in the making!  Unforunately I'm working tomorrow.  I'm going to try to find something streaming on the net, so that I can listen to it all day long!  It's amazing the stories of people coming from all over and here I sit 45 minutes outside of our nations capital and I don't get to go in person! 

I feel the same and so proud to be an American, and wishing I was there in person. 
I hope you can listen to it during the day. Do you have TIVO? Make sure to recorded if you do.

My husband and I are going to be there. we have marc train tickets all ready. i have no idea what to expect or what we will do all day. hopefully it will be fun. my husband lived in kenya and is from uganda so this is important to him and his family. i'm really looking forward to it!

Nic:
I am soooooo jealous!!!!  I really want to go.  Take lots of pictures.  I hope you have a wonderful day even with the whole crowd and cold.  It will be an experience you will never forget!!! and a story that you will be able to tell when your 90. (LOL)

That is going to be a wonderful experience for you and your husband. Make sure to take a lot of pictures and share with us.  I wish I could be there.  Make sure to stay warm!!!

Hugs,

Only if you count the Inauguration dinner I shared at Ruth's Chris on Friday night. It was very nice; a 4 course meal of which I was able to have 2 or 3 bites of everything except for the dessert. The tables were decorated with a patriotic theme and they allowed the customers to take home the Inagugural Menu.

Oh my goodness really? I wish I was there.  That must have been yummy and really nice. I haven't been to a Ruth's Chris for a few years and I miss it.  So, can I have the menu?  LOL Just kidding. 

Thanks for sharing!

It was my DH's first time going. Hopefully I havent created a monster!  and he won't want to go there too often!

I am a volunteer with the Presidential Inaugural Committee (www.pic.org) and will be at the National Cathedral Prayer Service on Wednesday, January 21. (www.nationalcathedral.org/presidents/service.html)  I will have to be there at 530a for a "briefing" and the service will begin at 10:00 and end at 11:30a... 

National Prayer Service will include a traditional prayer for civil leaders, a prayer for the nation, a selection by the Washington, D.C.-based Children of the Gospel Children’s Choir, and, for the first time, feature a sermon delivered by a woman.

Reverend Samuel T. Lloyd III, Dean of the Washington National Cathedral, will welcome attendees to the event, followed by the invocation of Reverend John Bryon Chane, Episcopal Bishop of Washington.

Reverend Otis Moss Jr., Senior Pastor Emeritus, Olivet Institutional Baptist Chur*****leveland, Ohio will provide the opening prayer, followed by a prayer for civil leaders delivered by Reverend Andy Stanley, Senior Pastor, North Point Community Church, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Scripture readings will be provided by Dr. Cynthia Hale, Senior Pastor, Ray of Hope Christian Church, Atlanta, Georgia as well as Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, New York City, and the Most Reverend Francisco Gonzalez, S.F., Auxiliary Bishop of Washington.  Rabbi David Saperstein, Executive Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Washington, D.C., has been asked to deliver a psalm.

Responsive prayers given by six leaders will symbolize America’s traditions of religious tolerance and freedom:

—Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President, Islamic Society of North America, Hartford, CT
—Rev. Suzan Johnson-Cook, Senior Pastor, Bronx Christian Fellowship, New York City
—Rabbi Jerome Epstein, Director, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, New York City
—Rev. Carol Wade of the Washington National Cathedral
—Dr. Uma Mysorekar, President, Hindu Temple Society of North America, New York City
—Rev. Jim Wallis, President, Sojourners, Washington, D.C.
—Rabbi Haskal Lookstein, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurunm, New York City
—Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, Senior Pastor, Windsor Village United Methodist Church, Houston, TX

The service will conclude with a prayer for the nation delivered by Donald W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., followed by a closing prayer provided by Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori, Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church USA and a benediction by the Reverend Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America

The Presidential Inaugural Committee previously announced that Sharon E. Watkins, General Minister and President, Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) will deliver the sermon.

Attendance is by invitation only.