Rally Photos & Mail

Thursday, November 4th, 2010 | 61 Comments

The Rally on Saturday was great!
An estimated 200,000~250,000 people attended!

We got there around 10am and already there were thousands of people! But it was good, the metro ride (green line mind you, we avoided using Red thank god!) Was packed like the Fourth of July only people were really polite & even joking with one another! (Shocking!) Last time I was on the metro for July 4th a fight almost broke out because strangers were telling people to “shut up.” =_=; But not Saturday! Saturday no one was even really talking loud!! A packed car & I could still hear myself think?! Miraculous. It was quieter than a typical almost empty metro car on a Saturday morning because always some rude douches get on & start yell-conversing. But I digress.

We got there in time to get sorta near the first set of TVs and speakers. I heard a lot of people couldn’t hear or see. It would have been nice to have more TVs or even just speakers. I get the feeling they weren’t expecting as many people to show up! Afterward I heard they had only expected 30,000 people so set up for such.

It did seem like majority of the people there for the “Sanity” part got there early & were a part of the main audience located in the middle while the “Fear” people seemed to get there at 12 or later & roamed the streets or museum stairs instead. Really if you didn’t get there early you weren’t able to be near a TV let alone the stage.

This is where I was. Sorta in the middle of the overall crowd starting at the stage. I could actually see better than this photo sorta shows. But no where near the stage! Haahaa, so I was basically watching the rally on TV but with thousands of friends (lool) They didn’t show on TV the warm up acts. They had a few musical guests, the Roots played, then John Legend and then the MythBusters came out and made us all do the wave again & again then jump up and down as one and also yell out and such!

Not my photo but I better angle I found online. You can also read the 100 Best Signs of the Rally here. I was excited that I had seen most of these at the Rally! Though I missed a lot of the geekier ones
I really like the “I LIKE TEA and you’re kind of ruining” sign a lot, hahahaaa

All my photos look the same because I’m 5′1″ and it’s just a sea of people!

But it was the nicest rally I’ve ever encountered! No crazy yelling or chanting or in you face stuff. It WAS crowded but I didn’t really get pushed too much. And while watching the show the guy in front of me told him to let him know if he gets in my way & I can’t see :p. He was older, probably late 40s. I was surprised by the huge mix of age that showed up! It was awesome!

When leaving we walked to the L’Enfant Plaza metro stop but there was this huge non-moving line just to enter the station! So we walked a few blocks to the Waterfront stop and it was so empty we got seats! Of course the next stop people piled in but who cares, I was sitting \;D/

Heard the escalator gave out at L’Enfant. Poor people they should have just turned them off in the first place IMO. :F

Anyone else go? I’d like to know how it was for you!
After talking to some people it really did seem that the earlier you went the more you ended up enjoying it. I think just the overwhelming number made travel incredibly stressful. And I’m not sure if I would have gone if I didn’t already live in the area. It’s hard to say~ But I do soooo… that probably has a lot to do with how enjoyable I found it

So yea, Cat Stevens & Ozzy Osbourne~ nuff said~

I told my Mom I saw Cat Stevens in concert and she immediately time-warped back to her old hippie days and starting raving about how she postponed her wedding to see him play, LOL. I figured she’d like that. Then I told her Ozzy was there too and her brain exploded (ok, not really, but she was confused.)

How was everyone’s Halloween by the way? I hope good! Even though in the past we’ve had countless rowdy kids come through, this year I only had 3, very well dressed & polite Trick-or-Treaters! I gave them fistfuls of candy and pretzels & more candy, haahaa. I’m just glad the candy is ALL gone now. I was seriously overindulging & getting sick from all the fun size KitKats & 3 Musketeers bars! Though we do have pretzels left but those are yummy and don’t cause sugar shock. :good:

I also received a few more “autumn-themed” cards…

From Bianca! It’s Peanuts themed cocoa, OMG!! Too cute to eat but I’ll take it to work to enjoy it on these super cold days~~ And the card is really cute, a girl dressed as a squirrel.

From Veronica both a postcard from Japan and a dancin’ kitteh H’ween card! Oh how I love cat-themed t’ings!