Not just "Barry", but also called "Uncle Rocky". More follow up news in the local paper about last weekend:

"Mrs. Obama was an incredible paddler," said Jaye Gibb, raft guide with Gallatin Gateway-based Geyser Whitewater Expeditions and a kindergarten teacher at Heck/Quaw Elementary School in Belgrade. "She was even better than some of the Secret Service out there."

While President Barack Obama held a town meeting in Belgrade on Friday, Michelle Obama and daughters Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, along with some other relatives went whitewater rafting on the Gallatin River.

The group took four rafts in all, also accommodating Secret Service and other White House staff.

They put in at No Tel around 2 p.m. and took out about an hour and a half later at Storm Castle. It was rainy and chilly, but the Obama family still had a blast, said Gibb, who guided Michelle and the kids' boat.

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Gibb said they named the raft "The Fighting Iguana" after Malia's soccer team.

"Their favorite part was Prudential Rapids," Gibb said. "I put them right up front. They got soaked. They thought that was the best part of the whole trip."

To prepare for Friday's rafting trip, Geyser Whitewater staff took Secret Service out to the site on Monday.

After the town hall meeting, Obama went fly fishing on the East Gallatin River with his Deputy Chief of Staff, Jim Messina, who attended the University of Montana.

The First Family stayed in one of the eight penthouses on the tenth floor of Big Sky Resort's Summit Hotel on Friday night, said resort spokesman Dax Schieffer. The entire tenth and ninth floor were reserved for the Obamas and family as well as White House and Secret Service staff.

"All in all we had about 400 people as part of the group," Schieffer said.

The resort hosted the White House contingent in addition to an oncology group and a wedding party without closing anything down, he said.

While Obama was out fly fishing, his sister tried out the zip line and scenic lift at Big Sky Resort, Schieffer said. Her daughter, Obama's niece, was heard referring to the President as her "Uncle Rocky."

At the end of the day Friday, the family took dinner in their rooms before the kids cooked s'mores over a fire pit outside the Carabiner Lodge.