(Best seen in the original size)

Yesterday I was a woman possessed. Today I'm just plain wild! It's now 5 a.m. and I have yet to go to bed. Heck, I didn't get home until 4 a.m. And I left the party early. There were still folks arriving when I left at 3:20 a.m.! Actually, this party is going to continue for 32 solid hours! That's how long the nonstop celebration of the Grand Reopening of our beloved Detroit Institute of Arts is scheduled to go on. And it doesn't cost anyone a penny, that is unless they want to buy food at the Cafe or some treasures at the Museum Shop.

I'd make a conservative guess that tens of thousands of people came to the museum today...and I should know. I got there 45 minutes after it opened at 10 a.m. on Friday morning, so I saw most of them at one time or another. Every gallery was jampacked, and it was the most wonderful cross section of our city and its suburbs with persons of all ethnicities, ages and countries of origin. I can't count how many non-English languages I overheard being spoken.

I took many, many photos and someday I may gather the best of them into a DIA gallery, but this morning I just want to show you where I danced my bootie off from 10:30 p.m. until 3 a.m. I took this photo at 12:30 a.m. and it only shows a portion of the crowd at the dance in the Prentis Court. There were DJs playing electronic music, my favorite music to dance to. It was awesome!!!

And now I am taking this weary body to bed...