Neighbors teased us when we told them we hadn't tried to get tickets and didn't really want them. But the fact is, we realized that 240,000 tickets meant you would still be squished into an enormous crowd, and that there would be advantages to not having to go through any particular gate to get to any particular place.
Still, our (my) original plan was to take the Metro further into the city, and use the rt.395 tunnel to walk from the north side of the Mall to the south side. It sounded cool to walk through a tunnel and be close, if underground, to the Capital. Luckily for us we ditched that plan when we realized how crowded the trains were already at 5:30 and went with plan B--walking for miles around the White House and entering the Mall from behind the Washington Monument.
This slightly heartbreaking video shows the experience of the people who got stuck around 3rd St and the tunnel:
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