For the first time, US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill received numerous children for the traditional Easter egg roll in the garden of the White House.
“Last year we were unable to host the Easter Egg Rolling because of the pandemic.
But this year we're finally getting back together," Biden, 79, said Monday on the South Balcony of the White House.
There he and his wife performed together with two head-high Easter bunnies.
First held in the White House garden in 1878 under then-President Rutherford Hayes, Easter Egg Rolling has been an institution in the US government headquarters calendar ever since.
It is a tradition of the event that children compete to roll hard-boiled eggs across the lawn with long spoons.
Unfortunately, the weather didn't really cooperate this year - the sky was gray and it rained lightly at times.
The motto of this year's Easter Egg Roll was "EGGucation" - a pun on the English words for egg ("egg") and education ("education").
“Education never ends.
We wanted to honor that determined spirit of education with this Easter Egg Roll,” said Jill Biden.
The seventy-year-old still works as a teacher.
The South Lawn of the White House has been turned into a school of sorts with educational activities for the children.
US entertainer Jimmy Fallon read from a children's book.