Michelle Obama Takes Family Holiday in Spain
July 26th, 2010
US First Lady Michelle Obama and one of her two daughters will take a summer break in Spain, a White House source said Monday. Mother and daughter will spend their holiday in the southern holiday resort of Marbella on a “private visit in the company of old friends,” the source told a German Press Agency.
US President Barack Obama will not accompany his wife, the source said. Spanish media reports said Michelle Obama and her younger daughter Sasha, 9, would be on Spain’s Costa del Sol between August 4 and 8. There had been speculation that Barack Obama might also come to Spain to celebrate his 49th birthday on August 4.
Michelle Obama has reserved about 30 rooms for herself and her daughter, their friends and bodyguards at a five-star hotel in Benahavis near Marbella, hotel sources said. The US first lady did not make any special requests, hotel owner Ricardo Arranz said, explaining that the hotel would function normally during her stay.
Earlier on Monday, sources at the Zarzuela royal palace declined to say whether King Juan Carlos would meet Michelle Obama, stressing that there was no official confirmation of the first lady’s visit to Spain.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s government had been disappointed in its hopes of hosting Barack Obama when the US president cancelled his participation in a European Union-US summit that had been scheduled during the Spanish EU presidency in the first half of 2010. The summit was subsequently called off.
Source: DPA
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So this is a “summer break?” Sounds like a personal trip to me, so of course it should not be on tax payer dollars! Why on earth would she & her daughter & probably Mom, need 30 rooms?!!! What is the real purpose of this trip, anyway?
Ok…obviously you know NOTHING about the Secret Service. Whenever the Family travels – with or without the President, standard practice is: the floor above and the floor below where the family is staying is taken over. Secret Service stays on those floors with the Family in the middle! Its called SECURITY ! And as far as the real reason for the trip… she probably needs break!