Posted on 02/19/2011 10:47:15 AM PST by Libloather
Michelle Obama in Vail for weekend
Randy Wyrick
Friday, February 18, 2011
VAIL, Colorado — First lady Michelle Obama is among the Presidents Day weekend crowd.
Obama arrived Friday night for a weekend of skiing in Vail and Beaver Creek, according to local sources.
A motorcade of about a dozen vehicles, including 15 state and local law enforcement officers, traveled from the Eagle County Regional Airport to Vail on Friday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Roads were temporarily blocked to make way for the motorcade in Eagle.
The motorcade entered an underground garage beneath the Sebastian hotel in Vail Village shortly after 9:30 p.m.
No stranger to the slopes
It won't be the first lady's first time on skis. She took daughters Sasha and Malia for a quick trip to Liberty Mountain Resort, in Carroll Valley, Pa., in February 2010. It was the first time on skis for the first daughters, according to Anne Weimer, marketing director at Ski Liberty.
During an interview posted by Liberty Mountain, the first lady was asked about some her favorite hot spots. Instead, she talked about a cool spot.
“We discovered skiing. My girls had never been skiing,” she said. “With a couple hours, you're skiing.”
Ski Liberty is 60 minutes from the White House.
“You can go from 60- and 50-degree weather to being on a slope. Not too many places in this country you can do that and still be at the seat of power. It's kind of cool,” she said in the interview.
Obama has made health and fitness one of her primary causes, and skiing burns up to 400 calories an hour, ski-industry sources say.
Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden is spending the Presidents Day holiday weekend in the Florida Keys.
The White House says Biden and his wife traveled to Key Largo on Thursday night. The couple will remain in the Upper Keys through Monday.
No public events are scheduled for the first lady's visit to Vail.
How many vacations did Laura take?
Gots to wonder how much this little jaunt is costing the American coffers?
Course she and her little darlings are worth every penny.
Look at the size of that whelf ass.
Any avalanches reported in the area or is she a good skier?
Don’t these people ever stay home?
I hope she kisses a tree at about 50 mph downhill.
I believe she would like to be in (a) vail all the time. Gosh, it sure is hard to pretend to be a Christian when one is muslim in their heart.
No, but her mid-section might. One can only hope.
another trip paid for buy “we the people”...Obama’s have no shame
The sympathy vote would guarantee his reelection.
.............We discovered skiing. My girls had never been skiing................
Who is we discovered skiing, if the kids you took with you have never been skiing?
I’m sure that the secret service that you took with you will shut down Vail so that you can enjoy the slopes and the town on your own.
How many did Laura take without her husband??
We’re Movin’ on up,
To the East side.
We finally got a piece of the pie-ie-ie-ie.
"A motorcade of about a dozen vehicles, including 15 state and local law enforcement officers, traveled from the Eagle County Regional Airport to Vail on Friday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Roads were temporarily blocked to make way for the motorcade in Eagle."
Looks like everyone wants to get as far away from him as possible!
Next up for Welfare Queens. Obama’s fitness plan provides free lift tickets, gear and transportation for inner city yutes to the nation’s top ski resorts.
Just watch out for the occasional ski-by shooting between gangs. Trading one white powder for another.
Dis they make her wear a veil at Vail? No one should be made to look at that hideous face.
How sad for the people who wanted to enjoy a weekend of skiing.
skiing is for whitey
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