Restoring Sanity and/or Fear

This past weekend was the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the national mall as well as all of the halloween festivities. I had been awaiting the day for quite awhile, I'm surprised everyone put up with my excitement! Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central were hosting the rally(s) and they are both very funny and clever. There were about 100,000 people expected and it was packed when we got there about an hour before it started. One of the first things we were very excited to see were the signs...these fans are very clever and since the rally was not about any one specific issue, there were so many different topics to draw from. Here are some of my favorites, which Angelica took:

I just thought this was a cool picture Daniel took at the rally

Once we found our way into the rally we were surrounded by people, and it was very hard to see. We tried to make our way closer to the stage as a group, but it is hard to get a line of five people anywhere in a crowd of what we later learned was 215,000 people. Or as Stephen tweeted, 6 billion. Eventually we decided to separate with the goal of reaching the ASL interpreters at the event. By luck, I made it to the interpreter section of the rally but without my friends. Because there were so many people at there, our phones didnt get good service if any at all. Although we weren't all reunited until after the rally ended, I had a great time. There were so many special guests there and both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were great. Most of the rally was very lighthearted and comedic, but Jon Stewart did wrap it up with a great speech about bipartisanship and the importance of working together. The whole experience was very exciting and it was inspiring to be around so many people who were excited about the same things that I was.

Saturday night we went to the homecoming bash here for halloween. We all got dressed up and my friends Daniel and Angelica put together a lady gaga costume for me in about an hour...it was impressive.

Angelica's picture of me as Lady Gaga

The bash was pretty cool, although it is hard to dance in heels :) The music wasn't loud but it was very base heavy, we could feel everything. On sunday, which was real halloween, we got dressed up again and went to Georgetown where people go to walk around and show off their costumes. It was insanely crowded, we felt like we were at the rally again! But we did go to visit the stairs where the exorcist was filmed and took some pictures.

our group on the exorcist stairs!

Other than that I have just been getting ready for Briana to get here tomorrow...I'm not quite sure exactly what we will go see or do but I'm sure I will have plenty of stories for my next post no matter what we do :)

Kaleena

new sign of the week: towel

most used phrase of the week: how are you?