Obamas arrive in Hawaii for vacation HONOLULU – President Barack Obama arrived in Hawaii Thursday for a holiday vacation in the state where he was born and lived as a child. The president, first lady and their daughters came to the island of Oahu for a more-than-weeklong vacation. The Obamas have no public schedule and are expected to celebrate the holidays in private at a rented compound in Kailua. Obama spent part of last December in Hawaii, where his mother and grandmother raised him. The family has made an annual tradition of coming back to the islands.
