Terraplus USA employees rush to lay down flooring in the National Mall Saturday afternoon. Flooring is being laid down in order to accommodate the masses coming to see the Inauguration Monday morning as well as to protect the grass at the National Mall. (James Tensuan)

Flint, Mi. resident Aldrick Mance says he came into Washington D.C. in order to help out with the big day. Mance places sheets of plastic on the National Mall’s lawn in order to protect it from being ruined on Jan. 19. (Patrick Record)

Artist M Fitzgerald of Springfiled, Va. sits and sketches the U.S. Capitol Building on Saturday afternoon, Jan 19. Fitzgerald and other artists participated in a sketch-crawl, where artist get together and sketch from the same location and share their work. (Patrick Record)

Valerie Lewis-Corder of Ca. snaps a photo of the Washington Monument while walking through the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 19. Lewis-Corder says she had a great experience during the last inauguration and looks forward to getting a better seat for the parade this time. (Patrick Record)

Vice President Joe Biden works with Laysha Ward, Target’s president of community relations, to fill care kits at the United America in Service event at the D.C. Armory on Saturday on Jan. 19, 2013. Event organizers expected nearly 10,000 volunteers to pack 100,000 care kits for U.S. service members. (Charles Minshew)

Visitors to the National Mall make their way through police barricades on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. The area was quite crowded two days before the inaugural with tourists, volunteers and those there for the National Day of Service. (Robert R. Denton)

Bill Todd, 25, sells Obama and Romney-themed condoms on the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. Todd and his colleagues traveled to Washington D.C. from New York City to sell the novelty condoms. (Robert R. Denton)

Eddie Nwadibia, of Los Angeles, Calif., looks through a telescope on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. Nwadibia traveled to Washington D.C. to volunteer for the inaugural festivities. The telescope's operator, Charles Collins of Onley, Md., is a part-time middle school astronomy teacher. Collins brings out the telescope for people to enjoy free of charge. (Robert R. Denton)

Members of the U.S. Park Police patrol the National Mall on horseback. (James Tensuan)