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White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
A press release from the White House cited a desire for "more children and families from across the United States (to) have the opportunity to experience this event" as a reason for the ticketing change. Tickets will be available through www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll beginning on Thursday, March 26 — no time has been announced for when the tickets will become available that day.
This is a fine idea, but it's not hard to imagine a scenario where many of the tickets will be snatched up on a whim by individuals who either won't realistically be able to attend, or hope they'll be able to resell the free tickets to someone else. Then again, this year's Easter Egg Roll is planned to be a much bigger event than ever before, and the Obama family's plan to give attendees from outside the city a guaranteed spot early enough so that they can plan trips to Washington is certainly intriguing.
The Egg Roll has been set for Monday, April 13, 2009, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the South Lawn of the White House.
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I don't understand. You need a ticket to get your eggroll? What if you don't like eggrolls? What if you want a spring roll? And why are they serving Chinese food anyway? Isn't American food good enough for the White House?
No ticky, no eggroll!
With 6 you get eggroll.
Meh. I'll just wait for the White House Spring Break 2009 Keg Bash tickets.
I'd be willing to bet that you missed your shot on this one...wouldn't the Bush twins have been more likely to try and pull this one off than the Obamas? Not sure Sasha and Malia are quite there yet. Maybe spring 2015?
That kid in the background looks like he's ready to whack-a-mole.
and the guy to the right looks like he has on kevlar specifically meant to protect him from that kid.
Clearly, you've never been hit in the groin by a running three-year-old's head. You can't have enough padding down there. At a MINIMUM, you need three cups and a Kevlar supporter when you go to Chuck E Cheese's. Trust me on this.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've seen just one picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The White House has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of giant toddlers. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the toddlers will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new child overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted blog commenter, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Or maybe this photo was taken from very close to the ground. That also seems possible.
So will there be a Facebook group for the families that pay $100 per ticket on ebay only to be turned away at the gate because too many tickets were distributed?
After the ticket chaos of the Inauguration Swearing-In Ceremony and the Official Balls, I'm seriously frightened about how this will turn out.
Do they only let adorable kids into the egg roll? Because every year the pictures are so cute, but I wonder...where are the ugly and unfashionable kids? (Besides my neighborhood, that is.)
I wish they would show us pictures of the ugly, unfashionable kids, because that little girl is melting my icy, spinster heart.
That "little kid" you speak of is Hillary Clinton.
I hope this "ticketed" event that "guarantees entrance" dissolves into another Purple Tunnel of Doom to Nowhere: Chuck E. Cheese edition, because, well, I despise children.