Michael and I met our friend Jeanne for a little lunch at Oyamel, an awesome Mexican joint near Chinatown.
They serve small plates, but boy are they packed with flavor. The drinks are also excellent. I had a pomagranate margarita with José Andrés's signature concoction: salt foam:
Who knew that salt foam was the high end answer to a salted rim? It's subtly salty, unlike it's low-brow brother. I loved it. Michael and I will be topping our perfect margarita with it, when we get around to that particular installment of "Cocktail Monday".
Anyway, then we made our way to the Mall, and as close to the Lincoln Memorial we could get, which was a bit closer to the Washington Monument.
You know how I love meta photos of people taking photos. Here Jeanne takes a picture of Michael in front of the Washington Monument:
Porta Potties:
(Very important and plentiful, although we all luckily made it without trying these babies out.)
And here was our view of the Lincoln Memorial for the "We Are One" concert:
Check out my awesome zoom shot:
You can totally see the snipers on top of the building.
This is what was behind us:
We stood waiting a while, but finally the concert begun, with the prayer, and some celeberties speaking, and finally, the Boss:
And James Taylor (a personal favorite):
Other highlights: U2 rocked it so hard I couldn't even pause to get out my camera. Garth Brooks was surprisingly good with a little medley. And then, America's number one rock star:
Obama!
I have to say, I've never felt so patriotic in my life as I felt that day. Okay, that's possibly not counting today, but I'm sitting alone on my couch today, and on Sunday I was with 500,000+ people, every single one of them proud of their incoming president and this country. It was electric. It was exciting.
Yay America! So go, watch the inauguration, and participate in history. It's fun!
Playing with politics,
Meredith
1 comments:
Nice post. I like how you tie the food in right at the beginning and then go straight to Obama. Yay 2009!
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