Following Bush's footsteps....

We have a president in the Whitehouse who spends more time on vacation and fundraising than he does on the job and now a governor in California who kicks off his inaugural term with a family vacation in Hawaii.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For many days, aides have portrayed California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) as hard at work in meetings on his new administration which takes office on Monday.

It turns out that the actor and his wife Maria Shriver have been vacationing in Hawaii with their four children, a person close to the family told Reuters.

"They took the children off to Hawaii," he said on Wednesday, adding that the couple's kids missed some school as a result of the pre-inaugural travels.

Complete story here. (Thanks to Bob Harris over at This Modern World.)