Today is Inauguration Day! Check out the inauguration schedule of events for January 20, 2009 – Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States today and naturally, there’s a full schedule of inauguration activities planned.

• 8:25 a.m.: Obamas leave Blair House for prayer service at St. John’s Episcopal Church
• 8:35 a.m.: Prayer service
• 9:45 a.m.: Church service ends; Obamas leave for the White House
• 10:05 a.m.: Obamas arrive at White House for coffee with Bushes
• 11 a.m.: Motorcade leaves for Capitol
• 11:30 a.m.: Swearing in ceremony begins with Bushes and Obamas going to the platform, California Senator Dianne Feinstein issuing call to order and delivering brief welcoming, followed by invocation from Dr. Rick Warren and performance by Aretha Franklin.
• 11:50 a.m.: Joe Biden sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice John Stevens
• 12 p.m.: Barack Obama sworn in as president by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
• 12:05 p.m.: Inaugural address, followed by a poem written and recited by Elizabeth Alexander and a benediction from Dr. Joseph Lowery.
• 12:30 p.m.: Ceremony concludes
• 12:35 p.m.: Bush departs via helicopter; Cheney departs by limo
• 12:45 p.m.: Obama signs inauguration papers in President’s Room
• 1:00 p.m.: Obama attends congressional luncheon
• 2:15 p.m.: Obama and Biden review troops at Capitol
• 2:30 p.m.: President Obama leads parade from the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House
• 3:15 p.m.: Arrival at White House
• 3:45 p.m.: Obamas and Bidens proceed to the reviewing stand; inaugural parade continues until 6 p.m.
• 7 p.m.: The official inaugural balls begin with the Neighborhood Ball at the Washington Convention Center.