Mele Kalikimaka from Hawaii...President Obama "made phone calls to 10 American service members stationed around the world from his vacation rental home in Kailua, Hawaii," on Christmas Eve, according to the White House.
The President and First Lady Obama's Christmas message for 2011, released on Saturday, focused on thanking the troops, and this season the holiday celebration at the White House was also focused on the military.
Mr. Obama was clad in golf gear as he made his calls: The President got in a 5-1/2 hour Christmas Eve game on the course at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, joined by Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives Sam Kass, White House Trip Advisor Marvin Nicholson, Chicago friend Eric Whitaker, and Hawaii friends Mike Ramos, Greg Orme and Bobby Titcomb.
Mrs. Obama was also busy on the phone on Christmas Eve: She took questions from kids wanting to know Santa's whereabouts through the NORAD Santa Tracker. The First Lady fielded queries and advised kids to go to bed for almost forty minutes.
The President arrived in Hawaii on Friday evening with First Dog Bo in tow, exactly a week after Mrs. Obama arrived with their daughters and aides, including Kass. Held up in Washington, DC, by the Republican House Members' standoff over the payroll tax cut extension, no time was wasted in celebrating the start of the vacation: The President took family and friends out to dinner on Friday night at Morimoto Waikiki. The chic sushi/Asian fusion restaurant in Honolulu is owned by chef Masaharu Morimoto, best known as a star of the TV show Iron Chef/Iron Chef America.
The President will be in Hawaii until January 1, and has no public events scheduled.
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*Photo By Pete Souza/White House
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