Posted on 02/19/2011 12:32:00 PM PST by Kaslin
First Lady Michelle Obama is on “a private family trip” in Colorado where she is skiing with daughters Sasha and Malia, according to an administration official.
“The First Lady and several close friends are chaperoning their children on a ski trip,” the official told the press pool reporter who is following President Obama today.
Reports coming out of Colorado say she arrived Friday night and is staying at the Sebastian Hotel on Vail Mountain. Rooms start at $605 per night for a room with two queen beds and head north of $2,000 for multi-bedroom suites.
Here’s a description from the hotel’s website:
For the best in Colorado vacations, stay at The Sebastian - Vail and enjoy Vail’s newest boutiqueslopeside hotel. In the heart of the Vail Village, The Sebastian is welcoming and pulsing with life. There’s Bloom Spa, Frost Bar, Market for nibbles, our visionary Block 16 restaurant. There’s a mountain-view pool, hot tubs and a roaring fire pit. Base Camp offers ski-in ski-out access from Vail’s Vista Bahn lift, just at the foot of Vail Mountain. Our ski valets will help you into warm ski boots and out onto the mountain.
Mrs. Obama has decided to jet out to Vail – instead of visiting slopes closer to Washington DC in Virginia or Pennsylvania – despite already incurring criticism for taking opulent excursions, particularly a trip last summer to Spain. There, she stayed at the country’s swankest hotel and, like this weekend, was traveling without her husband.
Mrs. Obama also raised eyebrows in December when she left earlier than President Obama for their annual vacation in Hawaii, incurring added expenses for taxpayers that likely ran well in excess of $100,000.
The trip to Vail, which almost certainly requires use of a large Air Force jet, would likely be much more expensive for taxpayers than a shorter journey by chopper or motorcade to a resort near Washington. Mrs. Obama will likely pay for a portion of her trip, but many costs of a first lady’s travel are borne by taxpayers.
President Obama today went to serve as the “parent coach” for for Sasha’s basketball team, even though Sasha was not there.
Meanwhile, Vice President Biden and his wife are spending the weekend in Key Largo.
can their friends afford to travel with the Obama’s
If their kids go to Sidwell Friends School, trust me, they can.
Just finished reading “Lions Of Lucerne”. Wierd simularities.
Must be nice for the taxpayers to pay for every penny of this trip. Nothing the Obamas have is EARNED.
Dirtbags, the entire lot of them. It’s all about free stuff and perks for her and he’s all about destroying our Republic.
Ditto!
“Is this all they do.... vacation?”
It’s all about reducing spending silly. Do as they say, not as they do. Anything I hear from the WH is mostly for entertainment anymore. Nothing can be trusted as true.
Hope she doesn’t go too downhill and fall on here assets.
Did they cut down Sonny Bono’s tree?
Before the end of this year, these pretenders will be removed from the White House.
Do not underestimate the power of the Supreme Court.
Hearings have already been scheduled and they have tremendous power to compel Obama to produce ALL of his documents from his past (including a real birth certificate and not some fake social security number from a dead lady in Connecticut).
The only problem with all of this is that we end up with a moron called Joe Biden as President.
Such empathy.
Did not know they made surf boards that would fit her feet.
“Let ‘em eat cake!”
I just got back from a one week vacation. Got a round trip ticket from California to Arkansas for $148 and stayed with family while I was there. I despise these people.
I may be naive, but I believe deep down inside the Baraqqis know it’s over in Jan 2013.
They’re gonna milk it hard until that day comes.
Her butt is so wide she doesn’t need a sled to slide down a hill. She is a human sled. Her husband is a ski pole.
Another week, another vacation? I guess we can eat cake ... no, wait ...
you know....I’v been trying for four years to take a family vacation before my children are grown and move away. And it just isn’t going to happen...not because we’ve been frivalous with our money in the past, not because we aren’t very very hard workers, but because of this rotten economy caused by the greed and the idiocy of the politicians and the liberals. Thanks alot people. You go ahead and take YET ANOTHER vacation michelle. I’m sure you deserve it! bitch.
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