Posted on 02/20/2011 4:17:46 PM PST by maggief
First lady Michelle Obama, center right, and her daughter Sasha Obama, 9, get their tickets scanned at the Eagle Bahn Gondola before heading up the mountain to ski for the second day Sunday in Vail. The first family, excluding the President, is in town for a family ski vacation Friday through Monday.
First lady Michelle Obama, center left, and her daughter Sasha, 9, walk towards the Eagle Bahn Gondola to head up Vail Mountain for their second day of skiing Sunday in Lionshead.
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Already been there done that.
Kevin Weekes.
I wonder if anyone’s going to record video of Air Force One taking off from Vail (EGE)?
I know about the MT libtards - every time we meet a new future neighbor in our MT town, they ask where we are from. After hearing that it is Oklahoma, they breathe a sigh of relief and say, always in the exact same words: “Thank God you’re not from California!”
Me too. They never have to pay airfare like the rest of us or are they billed for personal travel?
LOL. Sounds like you are in good hands.
Is she P.O.’d because they have to get their ticket scanned, or just the usual attitude?
She looks pained.
I'm sure it does, and my post was not really to start a debate about ski resorts (though that might be interesting sometime). My point was, the Obamas don't hesitate when it comes to telling us how to live, what we should sacrifice and do without. But for them, as supposed leaders, they do whatever they want on the taxpayer-subsidized dime.
Public Housing takers.
Gerrrrl....you just keep trying!
The helmets are he same place that their life vests were when they went for that boat ride last summer.
Yeti alert!
Unless the President travels to Vail, they won't be leaving on Air Force One.
If you mean one of the 747's the President normally travels on, you won't see that either.
They arrived in a Boeing C-32, a military version of the Boeing 757.
Best outfit I’ve ever seen her wear!
Maybe someone should comp her some more ski clothing.
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20110220/NEWS/110229998/1078&ParentProfile=1062
The first lady went to Restaurant Kelly Liken in Vail Village on Saturday night, dining on a pickled pumpkin salad with arugula and a braised ancho-chile short rib with hominy wild mushrooms and sauteed kale.
http://www.kellyliken.com/dinner
Back in the 80s, I went a ski trip with a big group of friends and there was one black guy with us. He played on the rugby team that most of the guys in that group played on. Curious about the ski thing, one night as we sat around apres-ski with some cold ones, the guys asked their team mate, "why are you the only black guy we know who skies?"
He told us basically that when a black guy has a talent for a particular sport, like basketball, baseball or football, his experience has been that he has always been good at it from the very first time he played. But NO ONE can make that claim about skiing. When you first start skiing, everyone looks equally stupid. And while most people don't have a problem with that (practice makes perfect), in the "black culture" that is somehow a bad thing. But this particular guy got over that and was enjoying learning new sports.
He also told us black people generally HATE cold weather and snow.
This makes absolute sense from an adaptive perspective.
Darker skin is an adaptation to filter out too much sunlight, whereas lighter skin allows more sunlight into the skin to produce more vitamin D in sunlight deficient (northern) climes.
Rhetorical question, right?
Now, surely you know the answer to that question!
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