Obamas and friends dine in Waikiki on eve of departure
President Barack Obama and the first family leave the East-West Center after visiting an exhibit about the President's mother's anthropological work in Honolulu, Hawaii Sunday, Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
President Barack Obama is driven in his motorcade vehicle through the neighborhood where he is spending the holiday vacation with his family, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in Kailua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama's motorcade makes its way out of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl in Honolulu, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2012. The President made a stop to visit the grave of his grandfather Stanley Dunham.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
President Barack Obama, left, walks with his daughter Malia as his daughter Sasha carries a family member while leaving the East-West Center after visiting an exhibit about the President's mother's anthropological work in Honolulu Sunday, Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
President Barack Obama and the first family leave the East-West Center after visiting an exhibit about the President's mother's anthropological work in Honolulu, Hawaii Sunday, Dec. 1, 2012. The exhibit was about Ann Dunham's work in Indonesia. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
President Barack Obama and his wife and friends dined at Nobu’s Waikiki tonight on the eve of the first family’s departure.
The presidential motorcade left Obama’s vacation rental in Kailua at 7:22 p.m. and arrived at the restaurant at 7:55, according to a White House pool report.
Earlier, Obama spent New Year’s Day remembering his family’s history.
In the late morning, Obama took his wife and daughters to visit the grave of his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.
The Obamas then headed to the East-West Center, which is featuring a display on the anthropological work of the president’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. The exhibition includes photographs taken during Dunham’s years of field research in Indonesia, as well as her personal art and artifact collection.
Joining them was Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and her family. Soetoro-Ng is an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Teacher Education.
Later the Obamas went to the beach at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe.
The president began the first day of the year with a morning workout at the Marine base in Kaneohe.
They are scheduled to leave Honolulu Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
