Michelle Obama sure loves her vacation time. 24 days in Hawaii ending January, a ski trip in Colorado during the president’s day holiday, and now a week long trip to China later this month. Michelle Obama will have a couple of token appearances at high schools and universities, but the rest of it is party time for Mooch. Michelle Obama is taking the kids along, along with Mama Robinson (her mother) and we get to pay the bill.
In China, she will be accompanied by daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson, who lives at the White House. President Obama will not be on the trip; he is scheduled to depart the U.S. later that week for stops in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Saudi Arabia.
Mrs. Obama is encouraging American students to follow her trip on social media and the White House website, where she will post a daily travel blog. In preparation for the trip, she scheduled a visit Tuesday to a Washington charter elementary school with a Chinese-immersion, international baccalaureate program.
In her blog post, the first lady said countries today are no longer isolated and face many of the same challenges, whether it is to provide students with a good education, combat hunger, poverty and disease or address threats like climate change.