Election Night 2008

After watching the election results come in with neighbors, we all headed to the streets to be part of the celebration. It was so incredible watching the jubilant U Street crowd grow and grow until traffic was stopped, and strangers were running up and down the streets, hugging, high-fiving, smiling, shouting, playing music and chanting. It was a moving scene, especially being reminded that the people of DC (well, about 93% of the people according to the voting results) were celebrating Obama's win in a neighborhood that was once devastated by the riots following MLK's assassination 40 years ago. We got home after midnight and heard the party going on well past 2:30am. We forgot to take pictures of Tommy's first visit to the polls earlier that morning, but we'll tell him the story when he gets older.

The crowd at 14th and U Streets.

Bohemian Caverns at 11th and U Streets. I was still working on the proper camera settings, but this one turned out to be kinda cool.