We were able to get tickets to go to the Egg Roll at the White House this year. In the past you were supposed to wait in line the night before to get tickets the next morning. David was actually excited about waiting in line with friends to do something for his family. Apparently DVD's are brought and pizza is usually ordered and it is a fun event with other dads. This year was different in that you got tickets online instead. We are lucky to get some. It was a huge mess and the site was super busy. It took us an hour of refreshing the page over and over and some tense moments to get the tickets.
Anyways, the event was the day after Easter. We were all excited and told the kids we were going to the White House. McKaila kept saying the whole way there that we were going to the White House. I asked her if she knew what it was and of course she didn't. I told her its where the president lives and she responds with "Oh! Can I open it?". I responded with "McKaila its where the PRESIDENT lives, its not a PRESENT." Silly girl.
We decided not to take strollers because we knew the kids would walk the whole time and wouldn't want to be strapped in the stroller. We didn't want to have to worry about keeping an eye on our bags and stroller while trying to have fun with the kids. The kids did so well walking. They walked from the parking garage to the metro and the rest of the time walking to the White House, around the White House and back to the metro and van. They were exhausted to say the least.
The Egg Roll is basically when you take a hard boiled egg and roll it down a little hill with a big serving spoon. We didn't even do the egg roll because the lines were huge and once you got in it was over in less than 30 seconds from the looks of it. We actually didn't get to do too many activities. We stood in line to see some characters and the kids dyed eggs but that was basically it. They also had jump rope making, an egg hunt (in which you didn't even get to keep the eggs...so glad we didn't do that one or we would have had some tantrums), a kids cooking show, face painting, and a few other things.
They also had some famous performers. Fergie was there in the morning (we were in the afternoon time slot), the Imagination Movers, Ziggy Marley, Jessica Jarell, DJ Jordan Heiitz, and SteveSongs.
We were glad that we were able to go and get our wooden Souvenir Egg but if we don't get tickets again we won't be disappointed. It was very overcrowded and not organized very well. I heard today that they let in 10,000 more than they did last year. That is a lot of people and explains why it was so crowded. I hope it isn't like this again. THe kids loved it and didn't really care that we didn't do anything extra.
We took lots of pictures so I picked out the best ones. I hope you enjoy them.
This is the view in front of us as we waited to get into the White House. There was even more behind us.
This is how the kids felt about waiting in line. Kameron was not to happy at all but McKaila was fine.
Story time with Ben Olson from D.C United Soccer Team
They sure do love each other.
The Electric Company from PBS kids were performing on the stage behind the kids.
The kids and I with Max from the cartoon Max and Ruby. The kids thought he was the Easter bunny :) It was nice because the line to see him was much shorter than the actual Easter bunny.
This is the egg on the commerical with the boy who has really fast hands and he is stacking cups. Its the Incredible Egg.
Incredible Egg
I love the clouds in this picture.
Family picture in front of the White House.
