A once in a lifetime trip

- The barricades are dismantled, the crowds have left and the man of the hour has put away his party suit and started to work. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

After all the fanfare, the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama is over.

But for so many who attended the momentous event, including the impressionable brood of fifth- and sixth-graders from Children's Community School in Van Nuys, the magnitude of the occasion was only beginning to settle in on Wednesday.