Report: Romney's family vacation is mandatory

Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's home on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., Monday, July 9, 2007.

/ AP Photo/Jim Cole

(CBS News) Mitt Romney is taking a few days off the campaign trail for a family vacation at his estate in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. The annual vacation is mandatory for Romney's five children and their families, and it is packed with competitive sports and serious family discussions, according to a report by The Washington Post.

The vacation home, which the Republican nominee first visited with his father George, is in a key battleground state: New Hampshire, which neighbors his home state of Massachusetts. But Romney is unlikely to do any campaigning there before his vacation ends on July 4th.

The Post says the family activities include competitive triathlons, football-throwing contests and challenges to see who can hang on a pole the longest. The activities known as the "Romney Olympics." The family also takes on chores from "a chore wheel," The Post reports.

After the daytime sports, which also include tennis and waterskiing, are complete, the adult members of the family convene for meetings, where they discuss their jobs, family-life and anything else of consequence.

Tagg, Romney's oldest son, told The Washington Post in a recent interview that the holiday is mandatory.

"My dad said, 'No, you will make it,'" Tagg recalled during a time he was working for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and thought he would not be able to miss work during peak season.

The $8 million, six-bedroom home includes a boat house, tennis and volleyball courts and a private beach, The Post reports. According to the report, other Mormon families vacation in the area and the Fourth of July is a popular holiday complete with a parade.

[Nocults]

The Bishop has a vacation motto for his family;

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liberalmike]

Romney is so out of touch with the average had working american this guy lives like a king and controls his family as such.
If he get to the WH he will do the same all the while imposing his idaels on everyone else. NO THANKS!~

[Nocults]

Owning a huge lakeside property, with boats, cars, and staff, for his family to use once a year, certainly shows that Bishop Romney feels the pain of all those he sent to the unemployment line with his outsourcing.

[Nocults]

"Mandatory Vacations" illustrates the golden rule for trust fund babies; "He who has the gold makes the rule".

[MegaProcrastination]

Good grief. If it's mandatory it's not a vacation.

[tmittelstaed]

Damn my parents vacations when we were kds were just like this - I hated them. Practically had to have a vacation to rest up after the family vacation. It was a relief once I was old enough to work - I always volunteered to work the holiday shifts to have an excuse to not go.

Some people just have no clue what a vacation is all about.

These days when we go on vacation the only hour that anyone works is the hour before we leave to go home, when we're cleaning up!

[cubscout09]

OC Rah!
Ossipi Rah!
OC Ossipi,
Rah, Rah, Rah!

My family has been camping at Wolfesboro forever.
Welcome to the neighborhood, Mitt.

[cnfrisch-2009]

I feel quite sad for the Romney family since they apparently closed themselves to the real, outside world and have no imput from outsiders....

[micmac666]

'Sounds creepy. Is it near Stepford?

[bobnjersey]

["My dad said, 'No, you will make it,'" Tagg recalled during a time he was working for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and thought he would not be able to miss work during peak season.]
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and if you had any b@lls ... you'd say ... sorry dad, got other priorities that will prevent me from doing what you want me to do ... now that i'm a grown adult who makes my own choices.

[tmittelstaed]

And get cut out of the will. That's why they don't tell dear old Dad where to stuff it.

[mryoubrian]

"competitive triathlons, football-throwing contests and challenges to see who can hang on a pole the longest. The activities known as the "Romney Olympics." The family also takes on chores from "a chore wheel,"

This is the weirdest family in America. I wonder what ideas Mitt would have for the country as president?

Whatever happened to camping, fishing and having a barbeque?

[Rafterman11]

Actually, to be fair, this weird stuff is common in a lot of these rich families. The Kennedys were the same way.

[diamruby]

This is a typical Mormon family where their entire lives are controled by the Mormon church, a cult that Mitt gives millions of dollars to. They in turn make sure their members vote how ever the church tells them. If elected he will run America exactly how the church tells him, which means our rights will be greatly decreased, especially for women. A normal family would be delighted if all members could be there but never ordered to attend no matter what!!!!