President-elect Barack Obama is expected to arrive tomorrow in Honolulu for a 10-day holiday with his family and to mark the death of his grandmother.

Obama has no public events on his schedule, sources said, but does plan to honor his late grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who died Nov. 2 at age 86, two days before Obama won the presidency.

Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha, plan to stay in a beachfront property in Kailua, according to an Associated Press report earlier this month. The property includes three homes that wrap around a swimming pool. Obama will come with several family friends who will be staying at the same property.

Obama was most recently in Hawai'i in October to visit Dunham, who raised him for much of his youth.

He last stayed in Kailua in August, when he took a weeklong vacation with his family.

During that trip, Obama hit many of the major tourist highlights on O'ahu — such as the USS Arizona Memorial, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl and Hanauma Bay — and threw in lots of typical local activities that included bodysurfing at Sandy Beach, having shave ice with his daughters and squeezing in a couple of rounds of golf.

Obama, who was born in Hawai'i and graduated from Punahou School, has routinely made Christmas visits to the Islands but missed a trip last year because of his campaign schedule.

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's sister and a history teacher at La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls, lives in Honolulu with her family.

Aides to Gov. Linda Lingle have said that the governor would be interested in meeting with Valerie Jarrett, of Obama's transition team, who is expected to travel to the Islands with the president-elect. Local Democratic leaders may also want to meet with Jarrett.