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Get Your White House Easter Egg Roll Tickets

Ticket Lottery Opens Today!

The White House announced the beginning of the ticket lottery and sale of souvenir Easter eggs for the 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll, starring the ever popular White House dog, Bo.

This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll is focused on promoting health and wellness with the theme,“Let's Go, Let's Play, Let's Move!” All of the activities will encourage children to lead healthy and active lives, which is of the focus of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative, a national campaign to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.

White House Easter Egg Roll tickets on sale now!  Bo, not included.
The ticket lottery will open today, Thursday, March 1st at 10:00 AM EST and will close on Monday, March 5th at 10:00 AM EST.

To enter the lottery, go to www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll. Tickets are free of charge and cannot be sold.

All lottery participants will be notified via email of the results on Monday, March 12th.

About the 2012 Easter Egg Roll
This year’s souvenir eggs come in four bold colors – purple, blue, green, orange – and include the stamped signatures of the President and First Lady. A commemorative red “Bo” egg featuring the First Dog’s paw print is included only in the 2012 5-pack Collector’s Egg Set.

Celebrating this year’s Bo egg, the First Dog himself stars in a special video for the White House Easter Egg Roll which can be viewed here.

To place your commemorative egg order, please go to www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll, and follow the link to the online Easter egg store.

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