Michelle Obama, one of my personal heroes, sat down this week with Melinda Gates, ex wife of billionaire Bill Gates, to talk about life after the White House.
Michelle noted the adjustment to life at home. Saying it was ‘strange’ to hear a door bell. Which is so interesting because you don’t think about the fact that would be something they hadn’t heard in almost a decade.
“It was strange’ Michelle said, “you take the final helicopter ride, our very last ride on Air Force. We took a quick vacation to Palm Springs, so the day after we were out of D.C, we were in another place so it felt like we were on vacation but then when we came back to our new home, it was odd.”
She said: ‘It was odd coming down a different street and parking through a different set of barricades – because we still had barricades, we still had secret service – but I had a front door that I could open where people would walk up to visit and ring the doorbell and our dogs didn’t know what a doorbell was.
‘So it was just the freedom of opening my own door, walking down to my own kitchen, opening up my back door on my own without calling Secret Service and being able to sit in the warm sun on a porch and listen to neighborhood sounds and other neighborhood dogs.’
Michelle added that it was a ‘huge’ deal to return to some sense of normalcy.