KAILUA, HAWAII – First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha and Malia, spent the night in Kailua, Oahu, on Saturday.
President Barack Obama has not yet arrived for the family’s 17-day holiday vacation in a beachfront home.
Friends of the Obamas are expected to arrive Sunday, December 18 and Monday, December 19, and stay nearby in several homes along the exclusive Kailuana Place.
This is the fourth year in a row that the first family has spent the holidays in Kailua.
The Obama rental is just down the street from the so called “Winter White House” where they have stayed in the past.
Like other homes in the area, it is sandwiched between the canal and ocean and is gated on the canal side but its front yard extends to the ocean.
Unlike many of the homes on Kailuana Place, the house is secluded and set back from the ocean so it is not visible from the beach and can only be seen by air or the ocean.
U.S. Secret Service, Navy Seals and the Coast Guard are stationed throughout Kailuana Place and the attached Kailuana Loop and guarding the waterfront on both sides.
Kailua on the most populated island of Oahu is a beach side community where residents’ enjoy one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
The beach, which stretches for three uninterrupted miles of pristine white sand, was rated in 1998 by coastal expert Dr. Stephen Leatherman, also known as “Dr Beach”, as the best beach in the country.
Its natural beauty – white sands, turquoise ocean, fiery orange sunrises, vast population of endangered green sea turtles and occasional visit from an endangered Hawaiian monk seal – are cherished and fiercely protected by residents.
Although much of the beach is often nearly deserted, its main beach park is a popular spot for kayakers and stand up paddlers (on calm days), kite surfers and wind surfers (on breezy days) and surfers (particularly in the winter when the surf is up).
Kailua town has a number of small shops, such as Lanikai Bath and Body, where the president’s family purchased the doggie spa treatment known as “Poi Dog” Mango-scented shampoo for their dog Bo. There also is the popular shave ice store, Island Snow, where the Obama daughters and their friends enjoy various flavors of snow cones.
Kailua businesses, centralized largely in the town, include popular resort dress and craft shops, health spas, art galleries and surf stores. There are no so called “big box stores”, but there is a Target and Whole Foods under construction.
The Obama’s are expected to stay through the New Year. While they pay for their own beach front rental, taxpayers pick up the rest of the bill, which is more than $4 million.
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We need to tax the rich more so that we can afford the Obama family! The Obamas need the vacation. They only get away every few weeks. In America we work 50 weeks a year and get a two week vacation. The Obamas take 50 weeks of vacation and work two weeks.
It becomes more and more easy to dislike the Obamas.
yep!!!
While we all dislike George Bush, at least his vacations were taken on his little ranch in central Texas at little cost to the tax payers.
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wow my original post must have been deleated or something… this is a test…
ok so I posted this before:
I didn’t vote for obama last time but this time I am gonna vote for him…. I think he is the best thing for America in recent history… WONDERFUL!!! 4 more years and this country will be purged of a corrupt congress and senate because the people are gonna purge every politician out by civil war…. There will be unrest like never seen in America. Because now Americans believe that good is bad and bad is good. Once this country goes even further to hell in a hand basket there will be a purging… When Americans can’t say “Merry Christmas” because good is bad and once they can’t store more than seven days worth of food because good is bad and once they can’t own a gun because good is bad….. There will be a purging of the bad by the good!!!!! So lets pull together and re-elect this person…. OBAMA2012!!!!! yahooooooooo oh yea How is that hope and change goin fa ya
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