Dance and chants on way to his new house; PRESIDENT OBAMA DAY OF DESTINY.BARACK Obama finally made it to the White House last night - after a short but slow journey. His motorcade trundled the 1.7 miles from the Capitol to his new home to give the massive crowd a glimpse of their new president. The parade was held up for an hour before it even got started. The route was jammed with joyous but frozen onlookers who'd lined up before dawn to secure a good vantage point for two hours of pageantry. People peered from the windows of nearly every building, while others watched from balconies and rooftops. The man of the moment twice stopped the car to get out and greet his supporters. They responded with cheers of: "O-bam-a O-bam-a." He and his wife Michelle walked a few blocks, waving to the crowd. The trip eventually took 70 minutes and the couple spent just a few moments in their new house. Then Obama walked across the grounds, holding the hand of his seven-year-old daughter Sasha. The First Lady joined him in the review stand with their daughter Malia, 10, to watch the rest of the parade. A relaxed looking President Obama smiled broadly as the performers passed. At one point, he broke into a jig while his wife clapped along to drummers. The parade involved more than 13,000 people with participants from 50 states. There were re-enactors from a black Civil War regiment, World War II's surviving Tuskegee Airmen Tuskegee Airmen Black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) who trained at Alabama's Tuskegee Army Air Field in World War II. They constituted the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. and Freedom Riders from the civil rights movement. There were school bands, pipe bands, majorettes Majorettes are girls who used to demonstrate choreography during parades. Unlike baton twirling performers, they are seen as a show rather than a sport. They are usually seen as the European equivalent of cheerleaders. and tumblers For other meanings, see Tumbler. Tumblers were proposed by Ted Nelson in "Literary Machines" as a means to address every bit ever written, or a particular span of bits in any text ever written. A tumbler is a unique numerical address of an interesting artifact. . And winding up the parade was a look to the future - a NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. lunar rover, the kind that may ferry astronauts on their planned 2020 return to the moon. CAPTION(S): ARE WE THERE YET?: Abored Sasha |
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