Obama wraps up Hawaiian vacation to return to capital

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HONOLULU — President Obama is spending part of his last day in Hawaii reading intelligence assessments and asking advisors about threats to the United States.

Obama and his family were set to leave for the mainland Sunday evening.

The 11-day trip to the state where he was born and grew up was not a complete break from work for the chief executive.

The president’s vacation was delayed by a Senate vote on healthcare legislation, then interrupted — and, by all accounts, derailed — by the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight as it prepared to land in Detroit.

Still, Obama played tennis and golf and attended a luau on the North Shore. He also took his daughters to the movies and treated them to shave ice.

-- Associated Press