South Africa gives US First Lady Michelle Obama and her family a warm welcome

South Africa gives US First Lady Michelle Obama and her family a warm welcome

MICHELLE OBAMA and daughters Sasha and Malia have left their illustrious husband and father green with envy as they today posed for one of the most prized pictures in the world – one alongside Nelson Mandela.

The United States of America’s First Lady, along with her daughters and mother Marian Robinson, arrived in South Africa last night (Monday 20 June 2011) at Pretoria’s Waterkloof Air Force Base on a chilly night, but to a typically warm South African welcome.

Mrs Obama arrived after the long trans-Atlantic trip smiling and looking very relaxed, with her daughters gladly accepting a gift of a blanket in the colours of the South African flag, which they immediately draped over their shoulders.

After spending their first night in South Africa, the Obamas had a full day in South Africa today, meeting in Houghton, Johannesburg, with the revered former South African President and his wife, Graca Machel, and then visiting one of South Africa’s most popular historical tourist attractions, the Apartheid Museum.

The 92-year-old Mr Mandela met President Barack Obama in 2006 when he was still an Illinois Senator and Mrs Obama told dignitaries she met today that the United States President was “pouty” that he was not able to accompany his family on their trip to South Africa.

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