Spend the day exploring the open-to-the public sections, such as the extravagant and glamorous State Apartments and the Drawings Gallery, with its ever-changing art exhibitions.
Police were alerted during the night when the gallery's state-of-the-art alarm system went off but the thieves had already left the premises by the time officers arrived at the scene.
If a president hopes to launch some new signature program, then some potential beneficiary of that program is sure to be sitting in the gallery during the State of the Union.