Obama goes shopping with daughters, stops for ice-cream

Washington, November 29

US President Barack Obama visited a local bookstore here with his two daughters – Sasha and Malia – to buy books including one of Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie. A very busy President on any given day had made up his mind to give plenty of time to his daugthers. In all Obama purchased nine books took time out for an all-important ice cream break also. 

These included 'Purity: A Novel' by Jonathan Franzen; 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights' by Rushdie; and 'Elske: A Novel of the Kingdom' by Cynthia Voigt.

Other books were 'On Fortune's Wheel' and 'Jackaroo: A Novel of the Kingdom' by Cynthia Voigt, 'A Snicker of Magic' by Natalie Lloyd, 'Stargirl' by Jerry Spinelli, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, Book 8' by Jeff Kinney and 'Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life' by Rachel Renée Russell.

Obama and his daughters shopped for books in tiny Upshur Street bookstore. He left with a brown shopping bag, and acknowledged journos with a smile as he walked to his SUV. 

After their book stop yesterday, they stopped for ice cream in a nearby D.C. neighborhood. — PTI