We Attend Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Shane and I went to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear yesterday on the National Mall.  It was quite the well-attended event.  It was VERY crowded.  Of course, it probably didn't help in our quest to get a good view that we started out after the event already began.  We walked down from our house and squeezed our way into the crowd.

I have to say that I was not that impressed with the entire thing.  I realize it was staged by a comedy show and their primary intention was to entertain, but it seems to me they wasted an opportunity to do something much more meaningful.  There were an amazing amount of people that I think were expecting something more.

I have to say that I did get goosebumps when Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) began singing Peace Train, but then they turned it into a silly bit.  They had Cat Stevens!!!! and they wasted him.  When they introduced him, I thought someone was going to come out dressed as Cat Stevens, but I was amazed it was really him.  They didn't even let him finish his song.  Unforgivable.  

The rest of the show was not very memorable.  Perhaps I'm having memory loss from inhaling large amounts of pot smoke that was around us.  It was fun seeing all the young people,  many who were dressed up for Halloween.  There were lots of older people... even older than us, that braved the crowds. Another bummer was that my camera died... I took the shots below with my iPhone.

This was our view.  We could see the Jumbo-Tron a bit.

At least the weather was nice.

Why are we here?

This guy said he pitied the fool that didn't restore the sanity.

But we did find Waldo.