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The presidential inauguration
EPR Prime
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I checked my mail today and was surprised to see an envelope from the Presidential Inaugural Committee. When I opened it I found an invitation for the inauguration. I checked around and I am pretty sure this is real. My question is how feasible would it be to try to go to see the Inauguration this late. I did a travelocity search and found some flights/hotels for Richmond VA which the site says is pretty close, but from there I don't know what I would do (buses/trains to get there?). I've also never been to that area, and I don't know what this invitation even really means. Do you guys have any suggestions?
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Looks like your average price (in DC) is going to be around $250 a night - assuming you're there from Friday to Tuesday, that could be expensive. I would look in the smaller suburbs nearby, accessible by rail. Once you get there you can walk or taxi - just do everything with at least an hour to spare, since the traffic will be ridiculous with the ceremonies.
Expect large crowds.
hotels are booked, price gorging is in effect.
they are shutting down almost all ways to dc effective 19 jan.
so tldr: you will have to stay out side the city, and cars aren't coming in after 19 jan so it's going to be a impossible bitch to get in. also, something as simple as metro tickets on specific lines are going to be pre-sell only so plans have to be made on how to get in very carefully and willing to change.
I'm also curious about the invite. .. they seem to be the hardest thing to get.. I'm wondering how someone who wasn't expecting / hoping to get one actually got one?
Librarians harbor a terrible secret. Find it.
Don't want to be a downer, but I want to manage your expectations in this instance. If you're by yourself, you'll most likely not have a lot of fun.
People are charging others to stay in their alleyways. I would seriously not go.
After talking with some other friends and family (and reading these posts) unless I win a plane/hotel ticket or something I won't be going. It would just be me going, and I don't like my chances of surviving on my own in a city I've never been in on one of the most crazy days ever.
Again, thanks for the replies,
Yeah, if you didn't request one from your congressperson, it's definitely not an actual ticket to the ticketed area of the inauguration ceremony
ps, don't feel bad about not going. I live a 15 minute Metro ride from the Mall and I'm not going. It's going to be a total C.F.
I can walk to the mall in fifteen minutes and I’m staying home. This is why I have a 52" plasma screen.
I will, however, make sure to go enjoy the days of drunken debauchery that follow.
I'm serious.
Is it possible to scalp inauguration tickets?
What he has isn't a ticket, it's something the transition team sent out to Obama donors that looks like an invitation, but it's just a "come to the inaguration!" memento. It doesn't get you into anything. There's nothing to scalp.
Ohhhh. Lamesauce. I thought it might get him into the actual inauguration ball or something. That would be exciting.
Ick, according to SammyF they're purchased tickets... I don't even want to imagine how much they charge.
I forget how many balls we're having around town, but I know it's some sort of ridiculous number. And that's just the official balls--the unofficial balls hosted by states that couldn't get squeezed into the President's schedule, non-profits using the event as fundraising opportunities, and groups that had to schedule their event spaces during the 3-day inaugural celebration but before the actual swearing in (meaning the President won't be coming, even if Obama actually shows up) inflates the number to somewhere in the range between "ludicrous" and "omfg."
I think it's actually pretty cool--it's like a democratic politico mardis gras, right down to the part where girls drunkenly hit on you if you worked for the campaign.