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President Obama goes home for the Holidays—photos of the Obama family in Hawaii

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Columbia Holidays Examiner
Obama spent the afternoon at the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve before visiting the marine wildlife park.President Obama and his motorcade head toward a Golf Club on December 28, 2011 in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Obama is spending the Christmas holiday in his native HawaiiPresident Obama and his family goes home for the Holidays to Hawaii6 photosView the full slideshow »
President Obama and his family goes home for the Holidays to Hawaii

President Obama, like millions of Americans, traveled back to the place he grew up for the Christmas Holiday.  Since the President spent part of his youth in Hawaii, his trip home was full of sun, sand and tropical breezes.  The Obama family vacationed at a compound in Kailua.

Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha left Washington earlier than the President for their winter vacation.  President Obama remained in Washington to wait for an approval of the agreement to extend the tax cuts to stop a two percent increase in pay-roll taxes.

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The President arrived on Air Force One at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu on December 23 to join the First Lady and their daughters for their winter holiday vacation.

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On Christmas Eve, President Obama traveled to the Marine Corps base where he played golf with friends. On December 25, President and Mrs. Obama made their annual trip to greet current and retired members of the U.S. military and their families in Kaneohe, Hawaii, where the families ate a Christmas Day meal in the Anderson Hall mess hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

The Obamas also visited the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve and Sea Life Park on December 27 in Honolulu and the President’s motorcade headed back to Ko'olau Golf Club on December 28.

President Barack Obama holds hands with daughters Malia and Sasha at Sea Life Park in Hawaii
President Barack Obama holds hands with daughters Malia and Sasha at Sea Life Park in Hawaii
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Rosalie Thompson has celebrated holidays in small rural towns and large metropolitan areas, with her extended family and alone with three small children on a South Carolina military base. She learned from her Mother and Grandmothers, however, that food, family and planning make any holiday...

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