County Attorney Shares Inauguration Stories

We all watched the inauguration on television. And there were plenty of shots later of the inaugural balls.

But those who were there, in person, have stories and pictures they will share for generations.

County attorney Rheubin Taylor and his wife Joyce were there and he shares their experiences with WDEF News 12.Rheubin Taylor made his plans to attend the inauguration last February.

RHEUBIN TAYLOR, ATTENDED INAUGURATION "I have family in Washington and I called a cousin and asked her to hold me a room at her home. I knew from that time forward that if he won the election we were going up."

D.C. Police estimate there were 1.8 million visitors in the city for the occasion and, by one account there were no arrests during the event.

RHEUBIN TAYLOR "The crowd was fantastic..people were...in all those people there were no arguments, no fights, no disputes, no dsisturbances, the people were just meeting once another, greeting and sharing with once another."

Taylor and his wife, Joyce attended the Southern Ball that night. It was one of eight parties hosted for the president and Mrs. Obama. They arrived at this one at 12:15.

RHEUBIN TAYLOR "The problem is..the closer you get to the time for them to appear people start crowding in..and the moment they come on stage all hands go up and every hand had either a cell phone. A camera phone or a camera in it."

But despite it all, Reubin Taylor was able to get some pretty good snapshots of the Obamas to add to an album full of memories on an historic week in the nation's capital.

RHEUBIN TAYLOR "It was just a great event..it was something...a once in a lifetime experience."

The Taylor's say the worst part of that trip was standing on cold concrete at the Washington Mall waiting for the inauguration to begin. The temperature was in the 20's.