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Donald Trump will take the oath of office on Jan. 20 where supporters and critics will be watching. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - As Washington, D.C., prepares for hundreds of thousands of well-wishers and protestors to flood the city for President-Elect Donald Trump's inauguration, both pro-Trump and anti-Trump Staten Islanders are making plans of their own.

Trump and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence will take the oath of office at noon on Jan. 20, administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building.

The oath is followed by an inaugural address by Trump, a departure ceremony for President Barack Obama and his family, then the inaugural parade.

The day before, Trump and Pence will have laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, followed by a, "Make America Great Again," welcome concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

Several inaugural balls will take place over a few days.

The day after the inauguration, about 200,000 people are expected to participate in the Women's March on Washington, originally called the Million Women March, protesting Trump's presidency.

CELEBRATING A TRUMP WHITE HOUSE

Like many others, Frank and Karen Aversa received tickets for the inauguration through Rep. Daniel Donovan's office.

The Annadale residents will attend the inauguration, as well as the New York State Society ball on Thursday evening.

"I think it's historic," Frank Aversa said. He has been to presidential conventions, but, "this is just different,'' he said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

He's optimistic that Trump will address the lobbyist culture in Washington, D.C.

"You see these guys constantly lobbying, pushing and shoving, and somebody's always helping someone and it's not right," Aversa said.

He is a managing partner in his family business on Staten Island, Aversa Brothers Industrial Contracting and Engineering, which has struggled to pay for its employees' health insurance since the Affordable Care Act came online, seeing premiums increase significantly.

"I'd like to see him address Obamacare," Aversa said. "As a business man, I've seen this thing destroy small business. It's got a strangle on us."

Anthony Accardo is a 21-year-old college student who voted for Trump in his first-ever presidential election and is driving with his father to the inauguration.

He is planning to attend law school, is interested in law and politics and has never visited the nation's capital, so his first visit will be a special one.

"I'd love to see the transition of power," he said. "To forfeit power to someone you might not want to forfeit to is remarkable ... not a lot of countries have that opportunity."

Initially, the Tottenville resident didn't like Trump.

"Of the two candidates, I supported Trump because I think I'd rather have someone who speaks his mind and is rough around the edges than someone who will lie to your face and do the opposite behind your back," he said.

Donna Fagan, always an enthusiastic supporter of local GOP candidates and, in this case, the Republican president-elect, said, "Oh, I'm going to the inauguration, baby."

She'll work her way into a few of the balls, she hopes, setting her eyes on the New York and Texas shindigs.

"I'm fugazzi-ing a way to get in without paying $350," she said.

A friend is making her a dress out of Trump/Pence posters, "in a nice pattern," and she's hoping to wear it to the New York ball.

"Just to go to a presidential inauguration, for me, is historical," Fagan said. "This particular one, where the president-elect is from New York and someone that I've rooted for from day one, and who overcame the odds ... I just feel like I'm very honored, and, if it's possible, it makes me even more patriotic."

MARCH ON WASHINGTON

Christina Mantz's business, Christina's Day Trips, will charter buses from Staten Island for people participating in the Women's March on Washington.

They have about 100 people traveling with them, leaving early Saturday morning from All Saints Episcopal Church and returning late at night.

The march starts at the intersection of Independence Avenue and Third Street near the U.S. Capitol and is one of many marches planned during the inauguration weekend.

While Mantz is coordinating the trip, "this is political," not a business venture, she said.

For her, the march is to let the Trump administration know they're watching his moves and, "if we don't like it, we're going to let people know."

"To me this is the beginning -- I don't think this is the end," she said.

One of the many people traveling with her is Patrice Ramkissoon, an office manager and executive assistant from Randall Manor.

"It's a women's march, and the overwhelming sense is that women's health care, the parts that we need progress on are under attack again, and that is just not acceptable," she said. "We are human beings and we deserve the same rights as men."

Ramkissoon is involved with a group in the tri-state area called Organize and Action, encouraging people to get involved in the political process.

It's, "for people who feel they don't have a voice, but want to have one," she said.

Gena Mimozo is also going to the march. A Wagner College alumna, she is traveling with other alumni, students and faculty.

The St. George resident is a grants administrator for Staten Island Arts and said there's no particular issue or cause she's marching for, but pointed to the march's progressive unity principles as a comprehensive list.

"I think that marching together in a large group of that magnitude is cathartic when you feel like you're in a situation that you have no control over."