The girls surely had friends in Chicago...Then again...Perhaps they weren't allowed to socialize...Might bump into a conservative family???
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/12/obamas_in_hawaii_with_chicago.html
Q Do you have a reading list for this next couple weeks? What’s he going to read, who’s he going to visit with, how much golf is he going to play?
MR. BURTON: When I said that there were no scheduled public events, there also aren’t a lot of scheduled private events. I think the President is going to wake up and see where the day takes him. I’ve checked out the forecast for the entire time we’re there: tomorrow it’s 81 and sunny; Friday it’s 81 and sunny; Saturday it’s 81 and sunny. So I think that the weather ought to lend itself to some outdoor activity.
Q But what is he going to do on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? I mean, how does the First Family spend those days?
MR. BURTON: I don’t know specifically what’s on their agenda this year. They obviously have dinner together and there’s exchanging of presents. They’ll enjoy some of the same traditions that they’ve enjoyed over the past years when they go to Hawaii. They see some of their friends. There will be some friends from Chicago who come, like the Nesbitts and the Whitakers. And I think he’ll just try to enjoy Christmas the way his family has traditionally enjoyed it. This is an opportunity for the President to recharge his batteries, knowing that as President you never really get to power off all the way.
Great place to vacation when it is FREE!
I gotta be fair... would you go to Chicago or Hawaii?