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Nerdy Wonka ?@NerdyWonka
President Obama does the shaka. "Mr. President you're fantastic" a woman shouted.December 31
http://t.co/ddyJRtsVOj
Carolyn Kaster
http://t.co/ECSloJRug0
The first family spent the last day of 2013 snorkeling with parrotfish and green sea turtles at Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve
President Obama and first family drive along the southeast coast of Oahu on Kalanianaole Highway from Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve Park, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 Carolyn Kaster, AP
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)Cha
(297,720 posts)Nice one where they're snokerling, bigtree!
I did one in the BOG, too..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110221091
From your link.. this will be some good peaceful memories to take back to D.C. with them!
"The Obamas had the sheltered Hanauma Bay to themselves the area is routinely closed to the public on Tuesdays and stayed far out of the range of cameras during their two-hour visit."
I'm going to add the article to my thread.. if that's alright and give you a proper
MT @jeffmason1: After making a few shots on the golf course in front of a small crowd, #Obama tells onlookers "Happy New Year" & walks away.
Zeke Miller ?@ZekeJMiller 1h
RT @jeffmason1: Rare pic of Obama on the golf course (the press doesn't usually get to watch.) With Sam Kass. pic.twitter.com/PPqYLgS4ym
Cha
(297,720 posts)Sam Kass and the Prez!
A food guy!
"One of the First Ladys longest serving advisors, Sam previously served as Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives. Sam helped First Lady Michelle Obama create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelts Victory Garden. To date, the garden has yielded thousands of pounds of produce that has been used to feed event guests, staff and the First Family at the White House, with further harvests donated to local food shelters.
In 2009, Sam joined the White House Kitchen staff under Executive Chef Cris Comerfords leadership as Assistant Chef and, in 2010, became Food Initiative Coordinator. Sam is a Chicago native and college athlete, Sam played baseball for the University of Chicago and graduated with a degree in U.S. History. He worked at 312 and Avec in Chicago and was trained as a chef by one of Austrias greatest chefs, Chef Christian Domschitz in Vienna."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/Sam%20Kass
Mahalo, bigtree~
bigtree
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Published on Jan 1, 2014
http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress
President Obama went golfing on Wednesday during his vacation in Hawaii. The President golfed at the Mid Pacific Country Club in Kailua. (Jan. 2)
The video captures a snippet of President Obama's New Year's Day golf round at the Mid Pacific Country Club in Kailua, Hawaii. Obama's long putt narrowly missed, drawing a reaction from the crowd of onlookers as the ball trickled by the hole. He then appeared to take a gimme rather than play out the hole with a short, but still missable putt (executive privilege, presumably).
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-golf-putt-hawaii-video
. . . and some pics like this one: