Florida First Lady tours Butler Elementary School as governor prepares for Seaside interviews (UPDATED with PHOTOS)

Florida's First Lady Ann Scott took time to tour Butler Elementary School Tuesday afternoon and visited several classrooms. The tour also included seeing the butterfly garden of Julie Little's kindergarten class.

The students in Little's kindergarten class had prepared a patriotic parade for the First lady, and learned how to shake hands and introduce themselves in anticipation of the visit.

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The First Lady and her husband are spending the night in South Walton for their 39th wedding anniversary. Gov. Rick Scott will do interviews from the Seaside gazebo Wednesday morning before heading on the Lucky Snapper in Destin. The swing through the Panhandle ends with a visit to Pensacola.

This story comes from the Northwest Florida Daily News' Tom McLaughlin.

Governor Rick Scott to start day in Seaside, head west

Gov. Rick Scott’s visit to Okaloosa County is going to be a little less than advertised.

Scott’s office issued a news release Tuesday playing up his “two-day tour of Northwest Florida.”

It called the tour an opportunity “to showcase the region’s beautiful beaches, great seafood and encourage people from all over the world to visit and do business in the Sunshine State.”

“The tour will include visits to maritime, tourism and fishing-related businesses that were impacted by last year’s oil spill,” the news release said.

But rumors — tentatively confirmed by a spokesman — that Scott would fish here or visit local businesses or walk on the beach turned out to be just that.

Scott will have lunch at the Lucky Snapper restaurant in Destin and then hop a bus for Pensacola.

The governor’s day will start early in Walton County. His agenda calls for “satellite interviews” from the pavilion at Seaside from 5:15 to 10 a.m.

Scott’s second event of the day will be an “economic development meeting (by phone)” conducted as he travels from Seaside to the Lucky Snapper.

And if he has plans to chat with residents in Destin, it’s going to have to be between bites. His staff has provided only 30 minutes, from 11 to 11:30 a.m., for him and his entourage to eat.

Scott has invited the media to ride a shuttle with him between Destin in Pensacola.

The seafood lunch, at any rate, is keeping with the concept of the governor’s visit.

Dawn Moliterno, chairman of the Northwest Florida Tourism Council that recently received a $30 million grant from BP with help from Scott, has been traveling with the governor. She said she’ll be ready for a pizza or something when the tour concludes.

“It’s been seafood morning, noon and dinner, and we’ve not had a bad meal yet,” Moliterno said. “We’ve had oysters, shrimp and grouper. It’s been delightful and we want the world to know that our seafood is delicious and safe to eat.”