First Lady Michelle Obama is in town to celebrate the first anniversary of her campaign to reduce childhood obesity. Here's a timeline of her visit.
4:15 p.m. -- First lady Michelle Obama arrives on stage to rousing applause and camera flashes.
4:10 p.m. -- Rev. Cynthia Hale, pastor of Ray of Hope church, introducing first lady Michelle Obama.
3:54 p.m. -- Robert Franklin, president of Morehouse College, arrives along with former surgeon general David Satcher.
3:46 p.m. -- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is led to his seat in front.
3:43 p.m. -- Singing of National Anthem at North Point Community Church.
2:2 p.m. -- Has now left Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta, and is headed to Alpharetta for a speech later this afternoon.
2:15 p.m. -- Michelle Obama just finished visiting the school's organic garden, asking students what was growing (collard greens, potato, bok choy) and how they kept it growing (rain barrels).
2 p.m. -- Is now visiting with a kindergarten class, which is closed to the press. The second-graders she just visited practically tripped over each other to give her a hug, which she dispensed freely. She said President Obama loves to snack on figs. And that the kids need to read a lot and work really hard if they, too, want to be president.
1:45 p.m. -- The first lady is eating blueberries with the kids. It's their snack of the day.
1:35 p.m. -- Michelle Obama arrives at Megan Kiser's classroom at Atlanta's Burgess-Peterson Academy, having been greeted by two of Kiser's second-graders bearing a blueberry-laden fruit basket.
1:10 p.m. -- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Sen. Johnny Isakson, among other dignitaries, are at Atlanta's Burgess-Peterson Academy to greet first lady Michelle Obama. The White House, however, will not allow the press to see the first lady's arrival and greeting. We're being taken to a second-grade classroom, which will be Obama's first stop.
12:55 p.m. -- First lady Michelle Obama's plane has reportedly landed at Dobbins.
11:40 a.m. -- With first lady Michelle Obama winging her way to Georgia, "Coach" Betty Jackson of Atlanta's Burgess-Peterson Academy prepped for her visit the only way she knew how: By ordering fruit and vegetable snacks that the students will eat next week.
"I'm honored," Jackson said. "It's exciting she knows about me and Burgess-Peterson Academy. It says what I'm doing for the children is actually working."
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