How fabulous for you!!! Sounds like it was truly a once in a lifetime experience. I have to hand it to you, though. I think I would have been arrested. If I stood on line for as long as you did and then had to deal with a free for all shoving match to get up front it would NOT have been pretty. Maybe its just the New Yorker in me but I'm pretty sure I would have lost it. Seems like you shook that nonsense off and didn't let it spoil your good time. Good for you! Its hard to describe to people who don't "get it" that being there in that moment in that space is your absolute favorite place to be on the planet. You just have to soak it all in and enjoy the moment. Kudos. When you're 80 years old you're gonna remember that night with a little secret smile on your face.