Obama family's Hawaiian holiday

President Barack Obama holds hands with daughters Malia and Sasha while they walk with friends Dec. 27, 2011, at Sea Life Park on in Honolulu, Hawaii. The first family is spending the holiday vacation in Hawaii, where the president grew up.

President Barack Obama walks with his daughters Malia, left, and Sasha, third right, and his friend Marty Nesbitt, right, to their car after a visit to Sea Life Park Dec. 27, 2011, at Waimanalo, Hawaii.

President Barack Obama holds hands with daughters Malia and Sasha while they walk with friends at Sea Life Park on Dec. 27, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

President Barack Obama, with members of his security team, waves as he leaves Island Snow with a Shave Ice at Kailua Beach Center while on vacation with the first family, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, in Kailua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Sasha Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama, is seen with a shaved ice as Obama with family and friends made a stop at Island Snow shaved ice Dec. 29, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.

Marty Nesbitt, a friend of US President Barack Obama, is seen with a shaved ice as Obama with family and friends made a stop at Island Snow shaved ice December 29, 2011 in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Obama stopped for the treat after spending the afternoon at the beach. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor December 29, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

First lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama release flowers over the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 29,2011. The first family is on a holiday visit to Hawaii.________________________________________

President Barack Obama,center, and First Lady Michelle Obama ,left, chat with Donna Willard, the wife of Commander of the US Pacific Command Admiral Robert Willard, after visiting the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor Dec. 29, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

President Barack Obama rides in his motorcade from his rental vacation home in Kailua, Hawaii, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. The President and his family were going to spend the afternoon at the nearby Pyramid Rock Beach at Marine Base Hawaii in Kaneohe. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg

President Barack Obama's motorcade leaves Lanikai to return to his vacation rental compound on Dec. 26, 2011, in Kailua, Hawaii.

Visitors climb on a ledge at the Halona Blowhole lookout near Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve, on the southeast coast of the island of Oahu, where President Barack Obama and his family were touring on Dec. 27, 2011.

Protestors are seen along North Kalaheo Avenue near the entrance of the street where President Barack Obama's vacation rental is located Dec. 26, 2011, in Hawaii.

First Lady Michelle Obama picks up Cooper Wall Wagner, aged 8 months, after she and President Obama posed for photos with Cooper and his parents, Cpt. Greg Wagner and Meredith Wagner, while greeting military personnel and their families at the mess hall of Marine Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay on Christmas Day.

President Barack Obama high-fives a young child as he and first lady Michelle Obama greet members of the military in Anderson Hall mess hall at Marine Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay on Christmas Day,

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha Obama enter the Marine Corps Base Hawaii Chapel Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. Mr. Obama is spending the Christmas holiday in his native Hawaii with his family.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet members of the military in Anderson Hall mess hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Dec. 25, 2011.

A secret service agent holds the door open as President Barack Obama enters the Marine Corps Base Hawaii Chapel on Dec. 25, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.

President Barack Obama's motorcade passes a decorated Christmas tree at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Dec. 24, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.

Members of the Coast Guard keep watch from a zodiac on a canal near the rental vacation home of President Barack Obama on Dec. 26, 2011, in Kailua, Hawaii.

President Barack Obama holds hands with daughters Malia and Sasha while they walk with friends at Sea Life Park on Dec. 27, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia make their way into the chapel for Christmas service at Marine Corps Base Hawaii Dec. 25, 2011.

A general view shows Kailua Bay near where President Barack Obama was hiking with family and friends in Kailua, Hawaii, Dec. 26, 2011.

President Barack Obama's motorcade heads toward Ko'olau Golf Club on Dec. 28, 2011, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.

President Barack Obama salutes as he disembarks from Air Force One at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Dec. 23, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii.