WASHINGTON: Giving a slip to a battery of media persons crazily following her, the future First Lady Michelle Obama along with daughters Malia and Sasha has arrived here ahead of her husband Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the US on January 20.
Landing in Washington on Saturday evening, a day ahead of their scheduled arrival, the three checked into the posh Hay-Adams hotel. The President-elect is expected to fly in from Chicago, his home town, shortly.
The family is staying in a hotel, instead of the Blair House, a guest house on Lafayette Park where Presidents-elect normally stay before inauguration, as the White House informed them that it was already booked and was not available.
The future First Family has come to Washington some two weeks before inauguration so that Malia and Sasha can begin in time their classes at the prestigious Sidwell Friends School starting on Monday.
Being daughters of the President of the United States, it is not going to be easy for both Malia and Sasha to adjust to their new school, media reports said.
On the first day itself, when they arrive at the school on Monday they are expected to be greeted by a large number of reporters, photographers and television crew.
Even as the future First Lady entered into the hotel along with her two daughters -- of course covered by the SUVs of the Secret Services -- a small crowd had gathered at the entrance to greet them, local media reported.
None of them, however, got that chance.
"Michelle, welcome to D.C.!" Annette Martin, 51, yelled anyway, 'The Washington Post reported'. Another woman whispered, "She's probably heard that a lot already," the paper said.
