This is the view of entering Nationals Stadium after braving the Metro at 6 AM.
Around 7 AM, the stadium was not quite packed yet. Mass would not begin for another three hours...
Here's a glimpse of Fr. Kyle doing important things. We know it was Fr. Kyle because Catholic Terps called him while he was doing important things and asked him to wave in our direction. (That's him waving, not beating his own the head.)
The first glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI was most easily viewable on the Jumbotron.
I don't know what he needed the bulletproof glass for...those bodyguards look like the could deflect bullets with their faces.
In terms of physical proximity, this was about the closest the pope came to our seats. You can just barely make out the blurry cranium of Archbishop Wuerl in the front.
I just liked this image of the Green Knight saluting to Pope Benedict as he passed (we dubbed him Gawain).
Compare to the 7 AM shot.
It was pretty much a packed house. Just before Mass started, there were a couple of sections that looked like they might have been empty, but they were filled at the last minute.
Isabel took this picture. She's very proud of it.
I think people took more pictures of the pope on the Jumbotron than of the pope on the field.
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