Innaugral Pictures

Inauguration tickets are counted and distributed on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009.

A US Capitol Police Officer keeps an eye on the VIP podium where Barack Obama will be sworn
as the 44th US President as the National Mall and Washington Monument are seen to the rear
on January 12, 2009 at the US Capitol. This mall area is expected to fill beyond capacity with people
during the presidential inauguration on Janurary 20.

Stacks of Barack Obama t-shirts sit on a shelf at the Official Inaugural Collectibles store in Washington
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, in anticipation of Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 20.

A commuter uses her metro ticket featuring a picture of President-elect Barack Obama in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2009. Obama
and his family will check into Blair House, the historic US presidential guest house just across the avenue from their future White House residence. (

The sun sets on the US Capitol, late January 15, 2009 where the 44th US President, Barack Obama, will be inaugurated January 20, 2009.

A wax figure of US President-elect Barack Obama is unveiled in a recreation of the White House's Oval Office at the Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London, on January 15, 2009. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) #

also the Obey-Andre the Giant poster of a few years back. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) #

Workers finish the walkway from the White House to the reviewing stand as preparations continue for President-elect Barack Obama's Inaugural Reviewing Stand on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009.(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) #

Motorcycle police participate in a rehearsal of the upcoming parade to celebrate the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama in Washington, January 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) #

NASA astronaut Rex Waheim holds the flag while in a space suit outside the Small Pressurized Rover( SPR) during a demonstration Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA's moon buggy will participate in President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural parade with the crew of the latest shuttle mission and this small rover, that is the current design for a mission to the moon in about 12 years. It will be driven by astronaut Michael Gernhardt. (AP Photo/Chronicle, Nick de la Torre ) #

A woman checks a watch printed wtih picture of President-elect Barack Obama at a roadside store as preparations continue for Obama's inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2009. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) #

Kristin Aldridge of West Chester, PA., surveys a magazine from a stand featuring President-elect Obama and his family on their covers at a Penn Station news stand in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) #

A blue line down Constitution Avenue indicates the route of the Inaugural Parade January 17, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images) #

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama gets into a Presidential limousine bearing the license plate "44" after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, January 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Jim Young) #

Crowds fill the Mall as they attend the the "We are One" Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial January 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) #

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial" on January 18, 2009 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) #