TRIPS FOR THE “OVER 55” - Prince William Area

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P.O. BOX 1520, Lorton, VA 22199 [email protected] BLUEBIRD Trip Insurance POLICY MANUAL TRIP CANCELLATION INSURANCE IS AVAILABLE ONLY ON OVERNIGHT TOURS AND IS NOT INCLUDED in the price The current Bluebird policy manual is available at of the overnight trips. However, insurance is the Prince William Area Agency on Aging office available through Our Travel Guard Chartism and located at Prince William County Building - 5 is available for each individual. Rates are based on County Complex, Suite 240, at the Woodbridge the cost of the tour and your age. The insurance and Manassas Senior Centers and online at provides trip cancellation coverage, trip www.pwcgov.org/bluebird. It is your interruption coverage, baggage up to $500, responsibility to make yourself aware of important emergency accident/sickness medical expenses up information concerning your Bluebird experience. to $2,500, and emergency evacuation repatriation of remains up to $25,000. The insurance must be Payment Policy paid for with your first deposit or payment on the Payments for trips are due within two weeks of trip. The cost will be provided on request. making the reservation. Check, exact cash, money order or credit card is accepted. If you do not Seating Policy for One Day Trips make your payment within those two weeks your Passengers boarding in Manassas sit on the Driver’s name can be dropped from the reservation list side of the bus. Passengers boarding in without notice. Woodbridge sit on the Door side of the bus. Receipts for payments can be emailed. When making your payment, request a receipt by Departure Points providing an active email address. If you don’t have email, request a confirmation be mailed. One Day Tours Manassas at Walmart located at 9401 Liberia Refunds and Cancellations Avenue. We load in the parking lot away from the If you need to cancel your reservation, please call store. No parking overnight. Quality Tour Transportation and speak with one of the agents handling the Bluebird Tour program. Woodbridge at Featherstone Shopping Center All cancellations are subject to an administrative fee located at 14527 Jefferson Davis Highway. We of $5.00 for day trips and $10.00 for overnight load in the parking lot to the side of McDonald’s. trips. A refund will only be given if there is No parking overnight. someone on the “standby list” to take your space Trip cancellation insurance is available only for the Overnight Tours overnight tours and it is highly suggested.

The public parking lot next door to Schedule and Trip Information the Manassas Sr. Center located at Schedules for the Bluebird trips can be printed 9320 Mosby Street, Manassas, VA 20110. from the web page: www.pwcgov.org/bluebird. To receive trip information via email, send a The A. J. Ferlazzo Building located at 15941 request to [email protected]. Call 703- Donald Curtis Drive, Woodbridge, VA 22191. 792-7433 (RIDE) to check if a current trip is For this pickup point, you will receive a parking operating as scheduled. permit in with your baggage tags and itinerary.

Guidelines for Tipping Return Times The suggested gratuity for a driver is $2-$3 per The bus driver will make the decision as to which day. The gratuity for sightseeing guides is included location will be dropped off first. The decision in cost of tour. A docent is usually not tipped for will be based on the factors that affect driving. their service. If a meal is included in a tour, all Note: All return times are approximate. taxes and gratuities have already been included in The driver will provide a more exact time the tour cost (excluding alcoholic beverages). Tour on the return day of the trip. Escorts do not expect tips, but do appreciate them. Alcohol NOTE: No consumption of alcohol is permitted on the bus. Program Policy Manual for full details of the policies governing the Bluebird Program. BLUEBIRD TOURS You may pick up a copy at the Manassas or Woodbridge Senior Center, or the Central RESERVATIONS Office of the Agency on Aging. Reservations commence on the date listed under each tour destination in this schedule. BLUEBIRD TRAVEL ADVISORY For Reservations & Information, call Quality COMMITTEE Tours between 8:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m. CHAIRPERSON Monday-Friday at (703) 339-0333 or visit our Chester H. Smith – 703-368-9552 office at 8025 Mims Street, Lorton, VA Monday-Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 VICE CHAIRPERSON p.m. or email us at: Gerry Nowinski – 703-494-5489

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No reservation may be taken before the Bill Barnhart – 703-791-2197 reservation date begins. On reservation day, Diane Fulton – 703-590-3512 reservations can be made for up to four Jill Gentry – 703-335-1529 persons per phone call. Reservations will Fran Harrod – 703-791-6381 continue to be taken after that date up to one Wanda Pulliam – 703-670-3731 week prior to trip departure or until the tour is Carol Scarton - 703-361-3181 full, whichever comes first. One day tours Robert Skipper- 703-530-7758 must have a minimum of twenty persons to Nan Wehmeyer – 703-670-0319 run and an overnight tour must have a minimum of thirty persons to run. Find Us on the Web: All tours may take place on a Quality Tour www.pwcgov.org/aoa/bluebird Transport motor coach. Three (3) days after or also at the initial reservation date, remaining space www.qualitytour.com or www.dctrails.com will be opened to residents over 18 years of age as well as groups from Prince William BLUEBIRD NAME TAGS ARE AVAILABLE County and neighboring counties. To ensure a AT A COST OF $8. CONTACT CHESTER SMITH AT 703-368-9552 reservation, all fees and/or bus fares must be paid in full 14 days after the reservation date or your reservation may be cancelled. Installment payments may be arranged for any BLUEBIRD QUARTERLY MEETING tour with the reservationist at time of booking. July 7, 2017, 10:00 a.m. in the Board Chambers of the McCoart Building.

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Quality Tour Transport, Inc. P.O. Box 1520 Lorton, VA 22199 We ask that you issue a check for each tour booked and indicate the date of the tour on each check. If you pay by cash, you must present the exact amount. Payment can also be made by credit card. Trip money will be accepted as soon as the reservation has been confirmed. Please refer to the Bluebird Tour Bluebird Social: Monday, May 8, 2017 we stroll the halls and gardens of these beautiful private Hibachi Grill in Woodbridge buildings. Let your imagination run across the globe. Immerse 12:30 p.m. yourself in International Cultures. The embassies offer indigenous treats, cultural performances, touring, and A courtesy bus departs Manassas at 11:45 shopping for exotic crafts and goods from their countries. A a.m. Passport is included for stamping as you visit each country. Lunch is included at a local area restaurant and then continue our tour of the Embassies. The names of the Embassies that will be open have not yet been announced. We will depart MAY Manassas at 8:30 a.m. and Woodbridge at 9:15 a.m. Return time is approximately 5:00 p.m. NOTE: This tour is limited Monday, May 1 to 40 participants. SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST ONLY Sherwo o d gardens & Baltimore harbor Wednesday, May 10 cruise William paca house & Baltimore, MD gardens & Cost: $70 pp ANNAPOLIS harbor **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE cruise Reservations Opened: February 1 Baltimore, MD Enjoy the approximately 80,000 tulip bulbs planted annually Cost: $74 pp along with other spring flowering bulbs. Dogwoods, flowering **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE cherries, wisteria and magnolias bloom throughout the gardens. One will also enjoy the brightly colored azaleas and Reservations Opened: February 6 old English boxwoods. Some of these plants date back as far This five-part Georgian mansion was built in the 1760s by as the 18th century and were collected from gardens of William Paca, one of Maryland’s four Signers of the Colonial estates in Southern Maryland. We will then enjoy Declaration of Independence and the state’s third Governor. lunch at Sabatino’s Italian Restaurant followed by a harbor Carefully restored by Historic Annapolis beginning in 1965, th cruise. We will depart Manassas at 7:30 a.m. and today it is recognized as one of the finest 18 -century homes Woodbridge at 8:15 a.m. Return time is approximately 6:15 in the country and a National Historic Landmark. Guided tours p.m. and Woodbridge at 5:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST of the house, which features period furnishings and paintings, ONLY reveal the inner workings of an upper-class household in colonial and revolutionary Annapolis. The gardens have been painstakingly restored to its original splendor as a picturesque Saturday, May 6 retreat from the bustle of the city. Visitors can view native and THE 90th Shenandoah heirloom plants while exploring the terraced landscape’s apple blossom parade formal Parterres, naturalistic Wilderness, and practical Kitchen & FESTIVAL garden. The garden frequently hosts weddings, receptions, and other special events. After lunch that is included, we will Winchester, VA take a delightful harbor cruise with views of the US Naval Cost: $57 pp Academy. We will depart Manassas at 7:30 a.m. and Reservations Opened: February 6 Woodbridge at 8:15 a.m. Return time in the area is approximately 4:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST ONLY The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival is a series of more than thirty events, but the biggest and most extravagant is the Grand Parade. The Festival is held in Winchester, Virginia in the beautiful and historic Northern Shenandoah Valley. In Saturday, May 13 addition to the parade with our reserved seats, we will attend THE GAITHERS AT Weekend in The Park with hundreds of crafts folks and food AMERICAN MUSIC vendors for lunch on your own. We will depart Woodbridge at THEATRE 7:30 a.m. . and Manassas at 815 a.m. Return time is approximately Lancaster, PA 6:30 p.m. No food is included on this tour and walking on Cost: $135 pp uneven terrain is involved at Weekend in the Park. Reservations Opened: February 10 Reserved seats for the parade and admission to the Park A full afternoon of entertainment and meaningful music is a are included. rare treat anytime, but when the occasion includes the best- loved voices in gospel music, it’s a must-see celebration! If Saturday, May 6 you attend just one musical event this year, this event hosted Embassy open house by Bill Gaither and featuring these artists is one you can’t Washington, DC miss. It will leave you encouraged, grateful and most certainly smiling! Buffet lunch is prior to the performance at the Eden Cost: $108 pp Resort. We will depart Manassas at 8:15 a.m. and **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE Woodbridge at 9:00 a.m. We will arrive back in the area at Reservations Opened: February 6 approximately 9:00 p.m. SOLD OUT. WAIT LIST ONLY We will meet our guide at the Navy Memorial/Archives Metro Station. We will proceed to Embassy Row to begin our tour as Monday, May 15 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF Friday-Sunday, May 19-21 AFRICAN AMERICAN music & rails HISTORY AND CULTURE Elkins, West Virginia Washington, DC Cost: $715 Single and $565 Twin pp Cost: $36 pp Reservations Opened: February 8 Reservations Open: Immediately This is the most excitement you can have in three days! Climb More than 100 years after it was originally proposed, the deep into un-inhabited mountains on two Wild and Wonderful Smithsonian National Museum of African American History Train Rides, then come back to earth and enjoy Forge. This and Culture is opening its doors in Washington, D.C. This is as good as it gets! Your tour includes two dinners, one national museum helps to tell a richer and fuller story of those hobo lunch and two continental breakfasts as well as three Americans of African descent. A hundred years in the making train rides. A $100 deposit per person is due with reservation. the story can now be revealed. The Sweet Home Cafe inside Full refund is cancelled 45 days prior to departure. We will the museum offers food that satisfies the hunger — and a depart Woodbridge, at 6:15 a.m. and Manassas at 7:00 a.m. space that satisfies the mind. It has four serving stations, Return time is approximately 7:00 p.m. each representing a region of the United States: The North States, Western Range, Agriculture South and Creole Coast. The Itinerary The idea is to expand people's understanding of just how The Cheat Mountain Salamander has climate controlled much African-Americans have contributed to our nation's passenger cars and provides a ride through the wild, high- culinary heritage. We will depart Manassas at 8:00 a.m. and mountain wilderness of West Virginia. Much of this trip Woodbridge at 8:45 a.m. Return time is approximately 2:00 Day 1 – Arriving in Elkins, WV you enjoy a two-night stay at p.m. the Holiday Inn Express in the Elkins Railyard. The Railyard is a beautiful development project that consists of the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Rail Depot, American Mountain Theater, the Wednesday, May 17 Railyard Restaurant & Gift Shop, a small amphitheater, and is UNITED STATES NAVAL the future site of a Railyard Museum complete with repair barns and turntable – and you are in the middle of it all. Your ACADEMY evening entertainment begins with a meal at Elkins’ newest Annapolis, MD theater, The Gandy Dancer. In a beautiful new dining room, you enjoy a very nice meal. Followed by the Mountain Cost: $79 pp Memories Show Band and a musical variety show that is filled **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE with high energy family-friendly comedy and music. Reservations Open: Immediately Day 2 – This morning you enjoy a ride on the Cass Scenic Since 1845 the U.S. Naval Academy has been sitting on a Railroad. This is a historic timber train that will take you to 338-acre campus along the banks of the Severn River. At the Whitaker Station where you see how logs were cabled out of Visitor’s Center you will be able to visit the tax free Naval the forest onto the train then hauled to market. You will then Academy Gift Shop and see the film. We will then take a continue up the mountain to Spruce of a paper mill until 1950. walking tour of the Yard conducted by official Naval Here in this high mountain valley you change trains, boarding Academy tour guides, who discuss the history and traditions the Cheat Mountain Salamander for a trip back down the of the academy and midshipmen life. Highlights of the tour mountain to Elkins. We will then board the Cheat Mountain include the Naval Academy Chapel, Bancroft Hall, the Salamander’s climate controlled passenger cars for a 2 1/2 midshipmen’s dormitory with five miles of hallways, Tecumseh hour ride through the wild, high-mountain wilderness of West Court, where a statue of the Indian warrior watches over the Virginia. A photo stop is made at the High Falls of the Cheat impressive noon formation of midshipmen and the crypt of River, 18 feet tall and 150 feet across, this beautiful location is John Paul Jones, the Revolutionary War naval hero. After the 5 miles from the closest road. After High Falls your train tour, we will be able to see the inspiring noon formation follows the tumbling Cheat through another 21 miles of scenic followed by an outstanding buffet lunch at the Naval wilderness. This is unspoiled and uninhabited forest, with Academy Club featuring salmon and flatiron steak. Lunch gorgeous tree topped mountain vistas, where hardwoods and will be followed by a guided tour of the Naval Academy evergreens grow to the edge of boulder strewn white water Museum located in Preble Hall. Here you can see more than rivers. During the ride, you enjoy a Sandwich Buffet served in 50,000 naval artifacts. We will depart Manassas at 7:00 a.m. the “Red Spruce” dining car. This evening we will enjoy dinner and Woodbridge at 7:45 a.m. Return time is approximately in a Timber Baron's Mansion followed by the American 5:00 p.m. A driver’s license photo ID only is required and Mountain Theater Evening Variety Show, a two-hour show we ask you to make your reservation as your name is featuring a variety of musical styles that includes country, listed on your ID. As you can no doubt tell, there is gospel, pop and patriotic tunes that is blended together with a considerable walking on the grounds tour for 1-1/4 hours and little homespun humor to provide you a warm and wonderful periods of time on your feet for the noon formation and the evening of Wows and Giggles. museum. Wear comfortable shoes should you decide to go. Day 3 – This morning we depart Elkins for Frostburg, MD where we will board the Western Scenic Railroad for a scenic ride through the mountains of western Maryland to Cumberland. Our dinner which is included will be in Hancock, Maryland at the Park-N-Dine. On our bus ride home, relax and reflect on your one-of-a-kind weekend. Amish baker and take home our tasty creation. Lodging for Monday-Saturday, May 29-June 3 two nights at Amish Acres. Wine Tasting in the Barn Loft Real housewives of Grill before our Threshers Dinner & Round Barn Theatre Indian a & OHIO Show. Enjoy a famous family-style Thresher’s with hearth baked bread, to platters of steaming country chicken, cider Featuring Walnut Creek, baked ham, and beef; the menu brings “Oohs and Aah’s” from Ohio & Nappanee, IN hungry “Threshers” of all ages. Topping off the day, here in Cost: $1120 Single or $870 Twin pp the Round Barn Theater is a theatrical production of “Plain Reservations Opened: February 21 and Fancy,” the story of life and love on an Amish farm. We are very familiar with the Pennsylvania Dutch, but how Day 3: Real Indiana Amish Housewives Tour much to you know about the Amish of Ohio and Indiana. We Meet your local guide this morning for a Real Indiana Amish think Pennsylvania is the only place you can find real Amish, Housewives Tour. Forget reality TV instead meet the real but just like lots of other settlers, they moved west and found housewives of Amish Country. Get a first-hand look at a day in fertile farming grounds in Ohio and Indiana where they could the life of a real Amish woman and the cottage industries settle down and live life according to their religious principles. they’ve created. Visit with an authentic Amish housewife to Our tour includes four unique dinners – dinner with an Amish learn how household chores are done without electrical family, an Amish wedding feast, a Threshers dinner, a dinner appliances. Learn how the families make a living without at Amish Acres, a dinner in Pittsburgh, PA and five breakfasts modern technology ruling everyday life! and one lunch. We will spend two nights in Walnut Creek, two Cinnamon Roll Demonstration nights at Amish Acres in Nappanee and one night in Enjoy a cinnamon roll demo with Elaine or Mary Lou. Pittsburgh, PA. Haystack Lunch Visit Carolyn’s home for a haystack lunch and peanut butter A $100 deposit per person is due with reservation. Full refund crumb pie making demo. if cancelled 45 days prior to departure. We will depart Basket Weaving & Visit with Amish School Teacher Manassas at 6:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. Arrival Chat with a basket weaver about her thriving business. Meet time back in the area is approximately 7:00 p.m. an Amish school teacher and find out how she manages her classes in a one room school, here everyone will have after The Itinerary school treat – a whoopee pie!! Day 1: Today, travel to Ohio Amish Country. You will be Amish Quilting Bee & Dinner in Amish Homestead This evening Elaine Jones invites you to join her and her lodging in either Berlin or Millersburg, OH for the night. Dinner family and friends in an Amish quilting bee. Enjoy a delicious at the Berlin Farmstead Restaurant as you enjoy a family-style home cooked traditional Amish meal and then pull up a chair dinner. You will enjoy the beauty of the country setting and around original quilt frames filled with hand pieced Amish the bounty of the country kitchen. quilts. They will demonstrate how to piece, mark and get the Day 2: Guided Ohio Amish Touring quilt ready to sew. Then you will sit beside the ladies and This morning following breakfast meet your Amish guide and participate, watch, learn or just chat as they lead both the begin your day. novice and experienced quilter in an old-fashioned quilting Stop at Heini's Cheese bee. Men in the group are welcome to join Elaine’s husband Start with a visit to Heini's Cheese House & Country Mall, for conversation in the barn. Dinner at the Amish Homestead. family owned since 1935. View cheese making, free samples Day 4: Brownbag Backroads Tour of over 50 Amish cheeses, Heritage curtain & lace, smoked This morning travel the scenic backroads passing horse drawn Amish meats, homemade jellies, homemade Amish fudge & buggies, tidy farm homes and white washed barns. Learn candles, hand-dipped ice cream, Amish gifts & souvenirs, about the fascinating lifestyle of the Amish as your party trays & gifts packages, bulk foods & candy, and more. knowledgeable guide tells all about the area and the history, Visit Troyer's Handmade Candies to make and take your traditions, and customs of the Amish. You will stop at a variety very own buckeye candies. While here, be sure to sample of welcoming country stores and quaint shops as you load some of Lydia’s most popular confections such as cashew your brown bag with goodies. Overnight Lodging, Pittsburgh crunch, caramel butter puffs, cream truffles, turtle bars and more! with dinner at Buca di Beppo where. all meals are served family-style with salad, pasta, entree, dessert and beverage. Tour the Millersburg Victorian Mansion, the historic Day 5: Expanded continental breakfast then depart for home. Millersburg Victorian mansion built around the turn of the 20th century and featured on HGTV’s Victorian America. Enjoy a tour of the mansion filled with history and possibly ghosts! The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. JUNE Visit the Hersberger Farm & Bakery, the bakery features famous fry pies, stuffed cookies, cream sticks, breads and Sunday, June 4 more!! Take home some of the homemade jams, jellies, Riverside Dinner noodles and other treats. While there enjoy looking at Big Ben, Theatre presents the largest Belgian draft horse in the US!! Then visit one of the some enchanted areas local cheese factories. Sample over 50 different varieties of cheese and watch cheese making in progress even in g through glass windows. Fredericksburg, VA Learn to Make Shoofly Pie. We will travel to Nappanee, IN Cost: $73 pp where upon arrival at Amish Acres we’ll enjoy a fun hands-on **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE group activity in the Amish Acres bakery kitchen as we learn Reservations Open: Immediately how to make a Shoofly Pie in the kitchen with Frieda the SOME ENCHANTED EVENING – THE SONGS OF being only a block away. It became a makeshift rescue center RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN will celebrate Riverside’s during the aftermath and its iron fence became a bulletin twentieth-anniversary season. The season opens with this board where family members posted notices of their missing glorious celebration of the most memorable songs of the team loved ones. Today, with the mementos received from people that established the Broadway musical as a totally American around the world, the church serves as a tribute site. You’ll genre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Their hear about the heroic emergency responders at the parade of hit shows across a span of nearly seventeen years Firefighter's 9/11 Memorial Wall, and see Engine and Ladder of collaboration made Broadway shine with such landmark Company 10/10, the fire station at Ground Zero. Enter the musicals as Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and 9/11 Memorial, where you can pay your respects to those who I, Me and Juliet, Cinderella, Flower Drum Song, and The lost their lives in the World Trade Center. See the Reflecting Sound of Music. More than just a collection of over thirty iconic Absence Memorial, the largest manmade waterfall inside the R&H compositions, this production interplays their songs in a 9/11 Memorial, symbolizing the vast void left by the tragedy. dialogue between five performers as they develop their Learn how the names of the nearly 3,000 victims were placed personalities and express their perspectives on relationships. around the waterfall next to their friends, family members, and From a backstage setting in the first act that features colleagues. See the new Freedom Tower and World Trade ensemble performances, to an on stage second act devoted to Center rise from the ground in this beautiful 8-acre green city solo performances, listening to the classic songs of R&H oasis. As the tour portion ends, your guide will give you your styled by each character will be like hearing the music and timed admission tickets for the Freedom Tower Observatory, a lyrics for the very first time. Don’t miss the passion and beauty panoramic observation deck that is a marvel of engineering of Richard Rodgers” music and the deceptively simple yet and architecture. The program begins in the lobby of the moving lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein live on stage. We will Freedom Tower with Voices, which is a film dedicated to the depart Manassas at 11:30 a.m. and Woodbridge at 12:15 a.m. men and women of the World Trade Towers and the new One Return time is approximately 5:30 p.m. World Trade Center. You will then take the Sky Pod elevator and rise 1,250 feet above ground in 60 seconds. Before we leave the city, we will enjoy dinner at Dallas BBQ featuring Saturday, June 10 chicken and ribs with all the trimmings. We will depart The Nationals vs. the Manassas at 5:45 a.m. and Woodbridge at 6:30 a.m. Return Texas rangers time is approximately 10:30 p.m. Washington, DC Cost: $57 pp Thursday, June 15 **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE STEEPED IN HISTORY Reservations Open: May 9 Gettysburg, PA We have great seats out of the direct sunlight in the right field corner just past first base. You will also be in the area with Cost: $149 pp easy access to the restrooms and the food vendors. The Reservations Open: May 12 game starts at 12:05 p.m. Be there to encourage our home Ride aboard the Steam into History train likely using a diesel team for the season that perhaps will take them to a national engine for this ride traveling from New Freedom depot to championship. We will depart Manassas at 9:45 a.m. and Glen Rock and return on the Northern Central Railroad Woodbridge at 10:30 a.m. Return time is approximately 4:45 route President Abraham Lincoln traveled on his way to p.m. There is no food included deliver the famous Gettysburg Address. The one-hour train ride features a narrative telling about the historic route yesterday and today. Next, we proceed to The Victorian Tuesday, June 13 Parlor lnn located in Spring Grove where you will rediscover 9/11 memorial and the elegance of an authentic Victorian tea in an historic home Observation Tower at during a six-course tea meal. Start with fresh fruit salad with One World Trade topping, then enjoy a fresh garden salad followed by a Cen ter delightful dish of sweets such as scones, tea breads, muffins or brownies with Devonshire cream. The fourth course New York, NY includes two kinds of tea sandwiches followed by a bowl of Cost: $157 pp soup and finally a scrumptious dessert such as peaches and **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE cream cake, chocolate cake, strawberry pie, Hawaiian cake, red velvet and other seasonal favorites. As a special touch, Reservations Open: Immediately group members will be able to choose from an assortment of Our first stop will be We South Street Seaport, Lower hats to wear during the tea to complement their outfit, their Manhattan’s east-side shopping destination. The Pier 17 style or just the whimsy of the day. (Please note this site has shopping mall offers a distinct mix of shops, restaurants, cafés two restrooms so we suggest group members use facilities and stunning views of the East River. Enjoy lunch on your prior to arrival. Upon arrival at The Victorian Parlor please own. We will then proceed to meet our guide for a special 90- have group members take their seats right away so service minute tour of the 9/11 Memorial guided by New Yorkers who can begin and then group members can stagger use of have a personal connection to that tragic day. Hear their restrooms during visit.) Tour of the Warehime-Myers personal stories and the touching recounts of tragedy and Mansion in Hanover. Built in the early 1900s by one of the heroism of many other everyday citizens. The tour begins at men who owned the Hanover Shoe Factory, this masterpiece St. Paul's Chapel, the oldest public building in New York City of architecture is full of collectibles including a wonderful in continuous use. This church miraculously survived the array of tall case clocks, glassware, porcelain and much falling buildings and debris from the 9/11 attacks despite it more. We will depart Manassas at 5:45 a.m. and Woodbridge at 6:30 a.m. Return time is approximately the incredible Tall Ships. A fleet of over 50 ships from 28 9:00 p.m. different countries will be docked for the only United States port of call. Enjoy a full luncheon buffet while your cruise past the Ships and many of Boston's most historic sites. Boston Maritime Tour, Guided - Discover the nautical side Saturday-Wednesday, June 17-21 of this historic city including Charles Navy Yard, USS Sail Bo sto n Constitution (the oldest warship in the US Navy) Boston ‘s A True M ar itim e fishing industry, Tea Party site, and more. Exper ien ce Faneuil Hall / Quincy Market - Take time to explore and have dinner on your own at this historic center filled with Cost: $875 Single and $671 Twin pp shops, eateries and carts of hand-crafted gifts. Reservations Opened: March 2 Arrive at the North Shore Hotel, Danvers, MA for two nights This unique adventure provides yachting in Newport, a sail Day 4: Expanded Continental Breakfast aboard a Tall Ship as well as opportunity to go aboard other Salem Tour - Learn about the famous 1692 witchcraft trials Tall Ships anchored in Boston Harbor. In addition, we will visit that consumed this New England sea-side village. Hear about many fascinating sites including those involved in the maritime the rich maritime history. View elaborate deep-water sea history of the area. The tour includes four expanded captain’s homes and the famous House of Seven continental breakfasts, one lunch and two dinners as well as Gables. Visit the Old Burying Point cemetery and witch trail one night in Mystic, CT, one night in Coventry, RI and two Memorial. nights in Danvers, MA. Salem Maritime Historic Site - Tour the historic Customs House and learn about how this Custom Service in Salem was A $100 deposit per person is due with reservation. Full refund vital to the new United States Government. Visit the 18th is cancelled 45 days prior to departure. We will depart Century sailing vessel, The Friendship. Manassas at 6:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. Return Rockport Artist Colony - Ready your cameras for one of time is approximately 7:00 p.m. Following is the itinerary: New England's most photographed locations at the very tip of Day 1: U.S. Coast Guard Museum - On the grounds of the stunning Cape Ann. Take time for lunch on own and browse picturesque Coast Guard Academy, the museum features the many galleries and boutiques filled with hand crafts. incredible artifacts spanning the 200-year history of America’s Sea Captains Homes - Tour the home of Gloucester’s most premier maritime service. Arrive at the Quality Inn, Mystic, CT successful sea captain, Captain Elias Davis. Built in 1804, the Dinner Included home is furnished and decorated with domestic and personal Day 2: Expanded Continental Breakfast-with Hot Choices items, such as a medicine chest and instruction booklet used Camelot Tour of Newport - In celebration of JFK's centennial by Captain Davis, who also was the ship’s doctor. Next, step year, return to Camelot by viewing President Kennedy’s and back 100 years and check out the 1710 White-Ellery house. Jackie’s close associations with the City by the Sea. Sights Gloucester House Dinner w/ Storyteller Included - Perched include St. Mary’s Church, where the couple was married and on beautiful Gloucester Harbor, dinner will be at the famous attended Mass, Newport Country Club, The Newport Reading Gloucester House Restaurant serving the freshest seafood Room on historic Bellevue Avenue, Bailey Beach where the and followed by enchanting tales woven from seafaring fables President would go for his morning swim, and Hammersmith and folk lore. Farm, Jackie’s childhood home and known as the Summer Day #5 - Expanded Continental Breakfast-with Hot Choices, White House. Travel Home. Newport Yachting Experience w/Panera Lunch - Enjoy your Panera boxed lunch while sailing on a tall ship sail through Newport Harbor and Narragansett Bay accompanied with all the excitement of sailing in the Sailing Capital of America Tuesday, June 22 aboard the classic sailing schooner Madeleine. Glide by CELTIC WOMEN fabulous coastal sites, magnificent gilded age mansions, Newport's Yacht Club, the towering Newport Bridge, the Rock WO LF TRAP AT Vienna, VA House and more. Cost: $82 pp Marble House Mansion - Tour this sumptuous Vanderbilt- **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE owned mansion built with 500,000 cubic feet of American, Italian and African Marbles. Stroll the beautiful grounds Reservations Open: May 18 complete with a lovely Chinese Tea House. Multi-platinum international music sensation and 2017 Brick Marketplace - Located on beautiful Newport Grammy nominee Celtic Women presents their captivating Harbor. Take time for dinner on own in this beautiful sea-side new show, Voices of Angels. Fusing fresh music, dance and marketplace, filled with shops, attractions and restaurants. cultural tradition, this inspiring live concert experience features Arrive at the Hampton Inn, Coventry, RI new stage designs, stunning wardrobes, superb chorography, Day 3: Expanded Continental Breakfast. Full Day Guide and magnificent arrangements of timeless Irish traditional and Service contemporary standards in the group’s award-winning Sail Boston - Boston’s wealth of maritime history stretches signature style. The performance will be at 8:00 p.m. We will from land to the sea! Join Bostonians in welcoming crews and depart Woodbridge at 5:45 p.m. and Manassas at 6:30 p.m. cadets from all over the world on this extraordinary trans- Return time is approximately 11:45 p.m. There is no food Atlantic regatta. Events will include special tall ship boarding stop included. to meet the crew and explore, a spectacular cadet and crew parade and more. Spirit of Boston Tall Ship Luncheon Cruise - Spend the afternoon on Boston Harbor with an up close, personal view of to become the writer – and the man – he yearns to be. Barrie finds the inspiration he’s been missing when he meets the beautiful widow Sylvia and her four young sons: Jack, George, Michael and Peter. Delighted by the boys’ hilarious escapades, Barrie Saturday, June 24 conjures the magical world of Neverland and writes O klaho m a a play unlike any the high-society London Shenandoah summer music theatergoers have ever seen. It’s a tremendous theatre risk, but as Barrie himself has discovered that Winchester, VA when you believe, you can fly. Prior to the Cost: $65 pp matinee performance enjoy lunch at Sabatino’s Italian Restaurant. We will depart Manassas at 8:45 a.m. and **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE Woodbridge at 9:30 a.m. We will arrive back in the area at Reservations Opened: March 24 approximately 6:45 p.m. Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry, because here comes Oklahoma! the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical full of rivalry and romance in a turn-of-the-century Thursday-Friday, July 6-7 territory on the brink of statehood. We will depart Woodbridge 68th Annual at 9:30 a.m. and Manassas at 10:15 a.m. Return time is approximately 6:30 p.m. Lunch is included at the Cracker Kutztown Folk Barrel in Winchester. Festival

Reading, Pennsylvania Tuesday, June 27 Philly fro m The To p Cost: $285 Single and $230 Twin pp Reservations Opened: March 30 Philadelphia, PA The Kutztown Folk Festival is the oldest continuously operated Cost: $113 pp folklife festival in America. This nine-day event continues to **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE draw visitors from all over the world, entertaining families while Reservations Open: May 22 providing valuable insight into the traditions of the Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, officially Pennsylvania Dutch and their fascinating way of life. The nicknamed the “City of Brotherly Love” in 2014. Upon our festival also houses the largest quilt sale in America and has arrival, we enjoy an amazing Salad Bar lunch at Chima’s an internationally attended Quilt Auction of top prize-winning Brazilian Steakhouse. Please provide a meat choice when quilts. But the purpose of the festival is still fulfilled, as making your reservations. Your choices are chicken, beef evidenced by the continued participation of the local or salmon. Following lunch, we make the short drive across Pennsylvania Dutch community as well as many of the the city to the One Liberty Observation Deck, Philly’s newest foremost experts and scholars of this fascinating microcosm of tourist attraction! We will ascend to the top of Philly’s America. This unusual nine-day festival had been featured enclosed observation deck for amazing 360 degree bird’s-eye twice in National Geographic and has been called "one of the views of the city and beyond from the 57th floor. From the most unique festivals on the East coast" by the Washington Observatory, look out on the expansive horizon and feel the Post, with good reason. Our visit will be in the cool of the city’s invincible spirit while you take in the iconic sights, evening. We are also including a visit to the Boyerstown surrounding waters and panoramic views of the skyline. An Museum that preserves Pennsylvania’s transportation history. interactive environment teaches you about your view from Almost all of the vehicles, from cars and trucks to wagons and every direction, providing a comprehensive multi-lingual carriages, were built in Pennsylvania. We also have a tram educational experience with the services of a guide to point tour scheduled at the American Treasure Museum. The out interesting facts about this site. We conclude our day in private collection is so large that trams take everyone on a the “City of Brotherly Love” with a two-hour cruise around the riding tour. The American Treasure Tour is an all indoor city with narration by the captain. We will depart Manassas massive collection. Two of the major exhibits are mechanical at 7:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 8:00 a.m. Return time is music boxes and preserved classic automobiles. The approximately 6:45 p.m. A fast food rest stop will be made en mechanical music display includes hundreds of machines route. Note: This tour is limited to 45 participants. such as nickelodeons, band organs and music boxes. You will hear the great sounds of the music of days gone by. Additionally, we have a jam-packed display of animated store window advertising, dolls, doll houses, model airplanes, JULY circus, patriotic, holiday items and many surprises. We also Saturday, July 1 are including a ride aboard the Colebrookdale Railroad. finding N everland Completed by soldiers’ home from the Civil War just four months after the Transcontinental Railroad united the East AT THE HIPPODROME and West, the Colebrookdale is a record of epic engineering Baltimore, MD and heroic human drama. Eight-point-six miles long and a Cost: $158 pp century-and-a-half back in time, the Secret Valley Line beckons you to experience for yourself this unexpected

Reservations Opened: March 1 treasures of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Our tour includes Based on the Academy Award®-winning film of the breakfast, two lunches and overnight lodging at the Inn at same name, this breathtaking show follows Reading. A $100 deposit per person is due with reservation. playwright J.M. Barrie as he summons the courage Full refund if cancelled 45 days prior to departure. We will depart Manassas at 5:45 a.m. and Woodbridge at 6:30 a.m. harpoon. Later, return to Cape Cod. Tonight, you enjoy an Return time is approximately 8:00 p.m. old-fashioned Lobster Bake at your hotel with all the trimmings (steak also on the menu). DAY 4: Following a full buffet breakfast at your hotel, you meet your local guide and head North to Salem, one of the most famous seaside villages in New England. First, you tour the Salem Wax Museum, where you learn all about the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Next, it's onto the House of the Seven Wednesday, July 12 Gables, made famous by the Victorian novel by Nathaniel beauty & the beast Hawthorne. Don't miss walking up the secret staircase behind Shenan do ah summer music the fireplace! Lunch and shopping time will be on your own at theatre lovely Pickering Wharf before taking a short drive to nearby Winchester, VA Gloucester. Here, you have a picture stop at the much- Cost: $65 pp photographed Fisherman's Statue, with the inscription "they **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE that go down to the sea in ships". Dinner. Reservations Opened: April 14 DAY 5: After a full buffet breakfast at your hotel, you bid farewell to Cape Cod with wonderful ocean memories The heartwarming tale as old as time tells of a young woman who finds her way to an enchanted castle and brings a glimmer of hope to all those trapped in a spell, including the Tuesday, July 25 castle’s beastly master. We will depart Woodbridge at 9:30 diann a ro ss a.m. and Manassas at 10:15 a.m. Return time is approximately 6:30 p.m. Lunch is included at the Cracker WO LF TRAP AT Vienna, VA Barrel in Winchester. Cost: $87 pp Reservations Open: June 9 Friday, July 17-21 One of the most successful artists of the Motown era, both RETURN TO THE CAPE as a solo artist and a member of the Supremes, Dianna Ross’’ glowing music catalog includes classics like: “I’m Plymouth, MA Coming Out,” “Upside Down,” and “Stop! In the Names of Cost: $1136 Single and $796 Twin pp Love.” The performance will be at 8:00 p.m. We will Reservations Opened: April 17 depart Woodbridge at 5:45 p.m. and Manassas at 6:30 One of the most requested places to return to is historic Cape p.m. Return time is approximately 11:45 p.m. There is no Cod with its raw beauty as a seaside resort area. We have food stop included. added a few new things for those who will take this tour for the second or third time to provide new incentives to return to the Wednesday, July 26 Cape. This includes 4 nights lodging at the Hampton Inn in hair spray Plymouth, 4 expanded continental breakfasts at hotels, 4 full Shenandoah summer music dinners with dessert and coffee, (including a Lobster theatre bake), touring of: Hyannis, Salem, Gloucester, Provincetown, and Martha’s Vineyard. A $100 deposit per person is due with Winchester, VA reservation. Full refund is cancelled 45 days prior to Cost: $85 pp departure. We will depart Manassas at 6:15 a.m. and Reservations Opened: April 28 Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. Return time is approximately 6:15 You can’t stop the beat with this fast-paced and fabulous p.m. musical set in 1960’s Baltimore, in an era of social progress that empowers average teen Tracy Turnblad to explore new DAY 1: Arrive on Cape Cod, crossing the widest man-made heights of social justice, teen romance and her hair! We will Canal in the entire world. You have 4 nights lodging at the depart Woodbridge at 9:30 a.m. and Manassas at 10:15 beautiful Hampton Inn Plymouth. Dinner at Cracker Barrel a.m. Return time is approximately 6:30 p.m. Lunch is before check-in at hotel. included at the Cracker Barrel in Winchester. DAY 2: After a full buffet breakfast at your hotel, you meet your local guide and tour Hyannisport as known and loved by President John F. Kennedy. Stops will include JFK Memorial, ‘Saturday, July 29 St. Francis Xavier Church and a view of the Kennedy KENNEDY CENTER Compound area. Now it's onto Provincetown, the very tip of PRESENTS Cape Cod, traveling on the old stagecoach route, with a stop cabaret at the Chatham Lighthouse and National Seashore Park. Here, you learn all about the natural history of the Washington, DC Cape. A special treat will be the whale watching cruise in the Cost: $121 pp Atlantic Ocean. Dinner. Reservations Open: Immediately DAY 3: After a full buffet breakfast at your hotel, you take a Step into the infamous Kit Kat Klub and leave your troubles scenic cruise to the storybook island of Martha's Vineyard. outside. As part of its 50th anniversary, the renowned Here, you enjoy a narrated tour including the Oak Bluffs Roundabout Theatre Company presents Cabaret, the Gingerbread Cottages and a stop for lunch on your own and scintillating Tony winner about following your heart while the shopping in Edgartown, its streets lined with Sea Captain's world loses its way. Welcome to the infamous Kit Kat Klub, mansions built when the only great industry was whaling by where the Emcee, Sally Bowles, and a raucous ensemble take vegetables, and homemade rolls. After lunch, take a walk the stage nightly to tantalize the crowd and leave their troubles around the island and enjoy the scenery! Then, enjoy the outside. But as life in pre-WWII Germany grows more and return ride back to Hoopers Island. We will depart Manassas more uncertain, will the decadent allure of Berlin nightlife be at 6:30 a.m. and Woodbridge at 7:15 a.m. Return time is enough to get them through their dangerous times? Come approximately 6:30 p.m. Note: This tour is limited to 39 hear some of the most memorable songs in theater history, participants. including "Cabaret," "Willkommen,” and "Maybe This Time." We will depart Manassas at 11:30 a.m. and Woodbridge at 12:15 a.m. Return time is approximately 4:30 p.m. No food stop is included. Tour limited to 39 participants

Monday, July 31 Penn’s cave & Wildlife Park Thursday-Saturday, August 3-5 ADVENTURES IN Centre Hall, PA, PITTSBURGH Cost: $117 pp Pittsburgh, PA Reservations Open: June 16 We will proceed to State College, PA where we will enjoy a Cost: $778 Single and $578 Twin pp lunch of your choice at the Cracker Barrel. From here it is less Reservations Opened: May 4 than a half hour to America’s only all-water cavern and wildlife By popular demand, we are presenting for the first time, a tour park nestled in Central Pennsylvania’s scenic Penn State dedicated to the city of Pittsburgh. The tour includes two Country. The cavern tour is a guided one-hour tour by dinners and two breakfasts as well as lodging at the Springhill motorboat on an underground stream. Along the limestone Suites Pittsburgh Southside for two nights. On the first day, corridors, stalagmites, stalactites, flowstone cascades and we will have a private guide to provide an overview of draperies decorate the interior rooms, while underwater, trout Pittsburgh including the Southside within the city. This will swim and jump for food! The farm and wildlife tour is a help us become familiar with the area and prepare us for the guided 90-minute motorized tour over the thousand acres next day. This evening we will enjoy a Pittsburgh Riverboat of Penn’s Cave forests and fields which have been carefully dining tour that features our dinner buffet and beautiful night preserved as a natural habitat for birds, plants, and views of the city. Day two begins with breakfast followed by a animals. North American animals, such as deer, elk, wolves, full day of touring with our local guide. Included will be Phipps bears, bison, and mustangs are seen, as well as longhorn Conservatory, Nationality Rooms, Heinz Chapel, history of the cattle. Come to Penn’s Cave – it’s a beautiful journey you will North Shore and PNC Park. We will also visit the World War II always remember! A rest stop will be made en route to the Memorial. Dinner will be at the Grand Concourse Restaurant Penn’s Cave, and a fast food stop will be made on the return at Station Square. This will be followed by an evening at the trip home. Note: Please make sure you are an able walker theatre featuring the musical Momma Mia. Our final day before booking onto this trip. Penn’s Cave does not have begins with breakfast followed by a visit and ride on the an elevator and there are 48 steps located at the main Dusquesne Incline built in 1877. Time will be allowed for entrance to the cave. A sweater or jacket is lunch on your own before departing for home. A $100 deposit recommended because the temperature is 52 degrees, per person is due with reservation. Full refund if cancelled 45 and wear comfortable walking shoes, (no heels). This days prior to departure We will depart Manassas at 6:15 a.m. tour is not suitable for people who have trouble with and Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. Arrival back in the area will be mobility! We will depart Manassas at 6:45 a.m. and at approximately 8:00 p.m. Woodbridge at 7:30 a.m. Arrival back in the area will be at approximately 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, August 8 historic cape may

AUGUST Cape May, NJ Cost: $l43 pp Tuesday, August 1 SAWYER’S SMITH ISLAND Reservations Open: June 16 Today we escape to the charming seaside city of Cape May, EXPERIENCE New Jersey. Upon our arrival, we enjoy a journey aboard the Cambridge, MD Cape May Trolley for a narrated guided tour around Cape May Historic District showcasing the lovely and famous Cost: $120 pp “Painted Ladies”. Cape May is noted for the large number of Reservations Open: June 5 Victorian houses that line its streets. Popularly known as Meet your tour guide in Cambridge and travel to Hoopers “Painted Ladies” because of their elaborate and brightly Island, while our guide educates you about Dorchester County painted gingerbread trim. These Victorian gems present a and the way of life that has prevailed here for centuries! beautifully harmonious appearance, despite each homes When you get to Hoopers Island, hop aboard the "Sawyer" unique detailing, and have earned the town a National Historic and take a cruise down to Smith Island, which can only be Landmark designation. Next, we take a guided tour of Cape accessed by boat Enjoy a family-style meal at the Bayside May’s Emlen Physick Estate, a magnificent Stick Style Inn Restaurant. The meal features crab balls (two per person), mansion attributed to renowned Victorian architect Frank clam fritters, ham, corn pudding, macaroni salad, coleslaw, Furness. You will tour 15 beautifully restored rooms that give you a glimpse into the lifestyle of this Victorian-era Cape Adventures in May family. We will enjoy lunch at the lovely Washington Inn Wisconsin & M ichigan followed by free time to browse along the promenade of shops at the Washington Street Mall. We will return from Cape Cost: $1528 Single and $1154 Twin pp May aboard the ferry to Lewes, Delaware. We will depart Reservations Open: May 26 Manassas at 5:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 6:00 a.m. Return Come with us as we cross Lake Michigan with our coach time is approximately 8:15 p.m. Note: No rest stop will be and everyone aboard on a first-class experience aboard the made en route to and from Lewes, Delaware. SS Badger’s cruise from Ludington, Michigan to Manitowoc, Wisconsin and onto our tour of the unique Door Country. Framed by 300 miles of scenic Lake Michigan shoreline, Door County, Wisconsin offers a Scandinavian seaside experience in the heart of the Midwest. It's a sliver of land filled with quaint waterfront villages, fish boils, a restaurant with goats on the roof and more. We have many fascinating and beautiful sites Thursday, August 10 for you to see. Our itinerary below will provide the details. Suicide bridge crab This tour includes 6 breakfasts and 6 dinners as well as two feast cruise lunches. A $100 deposit per person is due with reservation. Full refund is cancelled 45 days prior to departure. We will Hurlock, MD depart Manassas at 6:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. Cost: $100 pp Return time is approximately 8:30 p.m. The Itinerary Reservations Open: June 30 Day 1: Arrive Port Clinton, Ohio for overnight and dinner Spend an exciting three hours on a cruise aboard the Day 2: Breakfast then proceed to Lansing, Michigan to tour Choptank Riverboat Company's reproductions of an authentic the State Capitol building. Arrive Grand Rapids, Michigan 80-foot turn-of-the-century paddle wheeler. The menu to tour Frederick Meijer Gardens. Continue to Ludington, includes all-you-can-eat crabs, MD crab Soup, fried chicken, Michigan for overnight and dinner clam strips, corn on the cob, coleslaw, non-alcoholic Day 3: Breakfast then board the ferry that departs across beverages, and assorted cheesecakes. We will depart Lake Michigan to Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Lunch is Manassas at 9:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 10:00 a.m. Return included on your three-hour crossing. Depart the ferry and time is approximately 6:15 p.m. proceed to Wilson's Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor in the heart of Ephraim, WI since 1906. A classic Door County Sunday August 20 landmark that possesses the enchantment to take you back in BEACH BOYS time with its old-fashioned soda fountain and ice cream specialties, home- brewed draft root beer, flame broiled WO LF TRAP AT Vienna, VA burgers and juke boxes playing the classics. Stop for ice Cost: $82 pp cream and refreshments on your own on our way to Rowleys Reservations Open: June 30 Bay. Meet & Greet at the Door County Visitor Bureau then The original group comprised singer-musician-composer Brian proceed to Rowleys Bay Resort for two nights. Tonight, you Wilson, his brothers Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson, their will enjoy an International Dinner Buffet followed by a show cousin Mike Love, friend Al Jardine, and David Marks. Many at the Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest changes in both musical style and personnel have occurred in professional resident summer theatre. Discover this theatrical their often stormy career. treasure nestled along the shoreline with the comfort of a new state-of-the-art, 3-season theater. Take in the sunset at the shore before an evening of stellar professional live theater. The Beach Boys officially broke up in 1998 shortly after Carl Day 4: Breakfast at Al Johnson's, a unique and authentic Wilson's death, however Mike Love and Bruce Johnston Swedish breakfast experience where live goats can be found maintain the rights to the name and continue to tour with their grazing on the sod roof. It’s quite a sight, and it’s made this own band as The Beach Boys. In December 2011, the group's place one of the most famous restaurants in Door County. five remaining members - Brian, Mike, Al, Bruce and David - Peruse the gift shop for a special Swedish souvenir to reformed in celebration of their 50th anniversary of the group's remember your travels. We will then proceed to the creation, announcing a new album and a 50-date international Washington Island Ferry for a half-hour trip across the four- tour. Now, the Boys are celebrating another 50-year mile passageway between the tip of the County and the island milestone; the release of their first huge summer smash hit, known as “La Porte des Morts” or “the door of the dead.” "Fun, Fun, Fun". This tour will also mark the official During your boat ride learn the history of the outlying islands introduction of Jeffrey Foskett, their singer/guitarist who has and an intro to Washington Island. Upon arrival board the been with the group since 1981, as part of their touring line- Island’s original open air Cherry Train and enjoy a narrated up. tour, highlighting island features and attractions. Stops could We will attend the 3:00 p.m. performance. We will depart include Stavkirke Church, Schoolhouse Beach and Jacobsen Woodbridge at 12:45 p.m. and Manassas at 1:30 p.m. Return Museum. Return to the mainland early afternoon and enjoy time is approximately 6:45 p.m. There is no food stop some free time to explore Door County on your own. This included. evening you will take part in a Fish Boil Dinner with entertainment just as Scandinavian settlers off the Peninsula did 100 years ago. Fresh locally caught whitefish are cooked Sunday-Saturday, August 20-26 outside over an open fire along with small baby red potatoes Across lake Michigan and sweet boiling onions. During the cooking process, fish oils naturally rise to the surface which “boils over” along with water in a fiery spectacle signaling the end of the cooking process church gathering in town. But the overly enthusiastic brothers and the beginning of dinner. take matters into their own hands when, sparked by desire, Day 5: Breakfast Buffet at the resort. We will then return to they kidnap six women from town who then become stranded Manitowoc, Wisconsin to board the SS Badger for the trip at the ranch for the winter. Milly banishes the men from the back across Lake Michigan to Ludington, MI. Dinner is house while the women are there, and by the time spring included on your three-hour crossing. Overnight in arrives, the brothers realize their error and decide to escort the Ludington. women back to town. They’re met by the townsfolks rescue Day 6: This morning enjoy a breakfast buffet at the motel. party who assumes the worst, and even though love has Today we depart for Holland, Michigan where lunch is bloomed with the spring thaw, a rollicking shotgun ensues. included at the Alpen Rose Restaurant as well as a trolley Featured songs include Wonderful, Wonderful Day, Goin tour of Holland and free time to do a little shopping on your Court’n, Sobbi’n Women, A Woman Ought to Know Her Place, own in the unique Dutch shops. This evening we will and Glad That You Were Born. We will depart Manassas at overnight in Elyria, OH and enjoy dinner at the Golden 10:00 a.m. and Woodbridge at 10:45 a.m. Return time is Corral. approximately 5:00 p.m. Day 7: Enjoy breakfast at the motel before continuing our journey back home. Monday, August 28 SEPTEMBER ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD Friday, September 1 Sharpsburg, MD Mount Vernon cruise Cost: $99 pp & to ur Reservations Open: July 3 Mount Vernon, VA Travel to the Antietam Battlefield Visitor Center in Sharpsburg, Maryland and view the award-winning Cost: $71 pp orientation film narrated by James Earl Jones. A major Civil Reservations Open: July 3 War battle, the film depicts the events of The Battle of A visit to the home of George Washington is a great American Antietam which took place on September 17, 1862. The adventure everyone should experience, especially when you savage twelve-hour battle is the bloodiest single-day battle in can do it by boat! Come aboard the Spirit of Mount Vernon, American history, with a combined total of 22,717 dead, offering Washington’s most unique round-trip cruise direct wounded, or missing. The Battle of Antietam ended the first from Washington, D.C. to Mount Vernon, Virginia. Your cruise invasion of the Confederate Army from Northern Virginia into includes a narrated riverfront tour and admission to Mount the North, and led to Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Vernon Estate & Gardens. Following the cruise, you will be preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. After viewing the film, able to tour the Mansion, outbuildings, and Museum; visit we meet our friendly step-on guide, dressed in period attire, Washington’s tomb, explore the Pioneer Farm and round barn, and embark on our tour of the battlefield which includes enjoy strolling in the gardens and visit the gift shop before we stops at the Cornfield, Sunken Road and Burnside cruise back to Washington, D.C. We will enjoy lunch at the Bridge. You will be able to visualize Civil War history come to Mt. Vernon Inn. Note: At time of reservation provide your life as our Antietam Battlefield Guide recreates the voices and main entrée choice of roasted rosemary chicken, meatloaf stories of that day on the battlefield. Following our battlefield or vegetable lasagna. We will depart Manassas at 7:45 a.m. tour, we depart for the Bavarian Inn located in and Woodbridge at 8:30 a.m. Return time is approximately Shepherdstown, West Virginia for a delicious ???p.m. luncheon. Please provide a meal choice when making your reservations. Your choices are Sautéed Breast of Chicken Piccata, Vegetarian Lasagna, Grilled Bratwurst or Fillet of Sunday, September 10 Salmon. We will depart Manassas at 6:45 a.m. and The National’s vs. the Woodbridge at 7:30 a.m. Return time is approximately 5:00 Philadelphia pHillies p.m. Washington, DC

Wednesday, August 30 Cost: $72 pp Riverside Dinner Reservations Open: June 5 Theatre presents We have great seats out of the direct sunlight in the right field corner just past first base. You will also be in the area with Seven brides for seven easy access to the restrooms and the food vendors. The bro thers game starts at 1:35 p.m. Be there to encourage our home Fredericksburg, VA team for the season that perhaps will take them to a national championship. We will depart Manassas at 11:15 a.m. and Cost: $93 pp Woodbridge at 12 Noon. Return time is approximately 5:15 Reservations Open: July 3 p.m. There is no food included. SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS is bursting with rambunctious energy, fun, and romance, this musical frontier adventure set in 1850s Oregon tells the story of Milly, a new Wednesday, September 13 bride who finds herself caring for her husband Adams six SAWYER’S PRESENTS slovenly brothers at their wilderness ranch. With a mind to HARRIET TUBMAN BY transforming the brothers into civilized marriage material, she LAND AND SEA attempts to teach them the social graces in preparation for a Cambridge, MD treat your tasting will end with a "wine shooter" served in a miniature chocolate shot glass! We will then travel to Cost: $112 pp Williamsport passing the Allenwood Federal Prison Reservations Open: June 12 Complex along the way. Our guide will take us on a driving Travel along the "Highway to Freedom," a road along which tour of historic Millionaires' Row with a visit to the Thomas T. most enslaved people who fled this area in the 1800s lived. Taber Museum that features the Shempp Toy Train Ride past key landmarks like the Stanley Institute, Madison, Collection as well as historic exhibits and art. Accredited by Parsons Creek and Stewart's Canal, and the New Revived the American Association of Museums, the site features an art Church, while our tour guide narrates. Enjoy a narrated cruise gallery, history of the lumber industry in the area, military aboard the 52-ft. "Sawyer" vessel, along waterways where exhibit, historic period rooms as well as changing exhibits. Harriet Tubman and her family worked and acquired some We will arrive at the Hampton Inn in downtown Williamsport, valuable information that was needed to guide fellow slaves to PA to check in our rooms. This evening we will enjoy a freedom along the Underground Railroad. After that, enjoy a gourmet dinner at Williamsport’s Herdic House Restaurant home-cooked buffet-style (groups of under 30 people get a including hot entrée, house salad, fresh vegetable, rice/potato family-style meal with most of the same items) seafood meal side, coffee or tea (hot), and the site's house specialty dessert at Old Salty's Restaurant and Gift Shop on Hoopers chocolate mousse cake. The next day begins with breakfast Island. The meal typically includes crab cakes (one per at hotel. Our Keystone Copy guide will meet us to begin our person), clam strips, fresh fish, soft-shell crabs (if available), day which includes a driving tour of New Millionaires Row baked lemon pepper chicken, ham, vegetables, salad, iced where today's millionaires live plus Annunciation Catholic tea, coffee, and an assortment of homemade pie slices for Church, a wonderful gem along Millionaires' Row. Built in dessert. After lunch, conclude your tour at the Harriet Tubman 1886, the church is a wonderful Romanesque structure with Underground Railroad Visitor Center. See exhibits that display magnificent details inside including Italian marble. It is how this region shaped her early years, and illustrate her work possible we may hear a few pieces on the church's organ as a as a freedom fighter, leader, and liberator. On the way back special treat. Our next stop is the Rowley House, a to Cambridge, ride past and learn about more landmarks that masterpiece of Victorian architecture, located along were relevant to Tubman's life, including the Brodess Farm, Williamsport's historic Millionaires' Row. The site features the Bucktown Village Store, and Scott's Chapel. We will wonderful woodwork, stained glass windows, English Minton depart Manassas at 6:30 a.m. and Woodbridge at 7:15 tiles and historic furnishings. Now it is time to give our feet a a.m. Return time is approximately 6:30 p.m. Note: This rest as we aboard the Hiawatha Riverboat in Williamsport for tour is limited to 39 participants. a narrated Susquehanna River Cruise. Learn about the river's role in making Williamsport the lumber capitol of the world in the mid-1800s when logs from the north were corralled with Saturday, September 16 underwater booms, about jamcrackers that risked their lives to The National’s vs. the keep the lumber flowing down river and about a conductor on lo s Angeles do dgers the Underground Railroad that used the river to help slaves Washington, DC from the south flee north. While on board the Hiawatha, the group will enjoy a hot served meal by "convicts" doing time Cost: $77 pp upriver aboard the Hiawatha Riverboat. Meal will include hot Reservations Open: June 16 entrée selection, fresh garden salad, potato du jour (unless We have great seats out of the direct sunlight in the right field entrée comes with pasta), vegetable du jour, rolls and butter, corner just past first base. You will also be in the area with coffee/tea/water and dessert du jour. Back aboard our land easy access to the restrooms and the food vendors. The cruiser, we will proceed to the Purity Candy Company in game starts at 1:35 p.m. Be there to encourage our home Allenwood where a glass wall separates the factory from the team for the season that perhaps will take them to a national store. Enjoy browsing in this delicious shoppe with a special championship. We will depart Manassas at 11:15 a.m. and treat for everyone upon departure. We will drop our guide at Woodbridge at 12 Noon. Return time is approximately 5:15 the Country Cupboard in Lewisburg where you may visit the p.m. There is no food included. restroom and order an early dinner on your own before departure for home. Our tour includes 1 breakfast, 2 lunches and 1 dinner. We will depart Manassas at 6:15 a.m. Saturday-Sunday, September 17-18 and Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. Return time is approximately KEYSTO N E COPS, CO NS & 7:45 p.m. A rest stop going and returning will be made NOTE; CAPERS This tour is limited to 46 participants. Lewisburg, PA Cost: $354 Single & $319 Twin pp Wednesday, September 20 CARLISLE CURIO SITIES Reservations Open: June 14 Expect the unexpected on this unforgettable tour to Carlisle & Mechanicsburg, PA Lewisburg, PA. Our first stop will be the Country Cupboard Cost: $91 pp in Lewisburg. to enjoy the soup, salad & bread bar along with **PRICE SUBSIDIZED BY BLUEBIRD COMMITTEE beverage and dessert bar. Following lunch our Keystone Reservations Open: July 3 Cop Guide meets our group and begins our driving tour of Our tour includes a wonderful kitchen shoppe and cooking Lewisburg with views of the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. school where you’ll enjoy a served meal created right before We will visit the Four Friends Vineyard and Winery in your eyes in the classroom kitchen and dining room by a chef Montgomery PA where you'll enjoy learning about the site with recipes to take home. We will also visit the Rolls-Royce including its vines and wines plus wine tasting. As a special Foundation for a tour of their select showpiece motorcars, one with a complete picnic outfit in the trunk. We will also take nights in Meadowbrooke Gourds artisan factory where gourds are Dinner Included grown and hand-crafted into unique home décor treasures. Day #4 – Expanded Continental Breakfast - With hot Tour of the production area and browsing included. Our final choices. stop will be the Lindt Chocolate Outlet for browsing and a Castle in the Clouds - Begin with an overview presentation short presentation about the art of chocolate tasting. We will and learn about the history of this magnificent mansion. Tour depart Manassas at 6:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. through the picturesque Estate perched high above the lakes Return time is approximately 8:15 p.m. A fast food rest stop and surrounded by three mountains. Great photo-op for will be made en route home. foliage vistas. North Conway Village - Ready your cameras for one of New Sunday-Saturday, September 24-30 Hampshire's most charming villages. Take in the Austrian- Trains across the style train station, crisp, white church steeples and colonial era m o un tains shops. Check out the yummy local food products, hand-made crafts and antiques at Zeb’s famous New England Country New England Fall Foliage Special Store. Cost: $1351 Single and $1015 Twin pp Conway Scenic Railway - Arrive in New Hampshire's majestic White Mountains.

Reservations Open: June 5 Depart from the 1874 Victorian Station on the Valley Train and This is a golden opportunity to visit four of our New England enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Mount Washington Valley as states during the fall foliage splendor. We will visit and see you ride through the breath-taking mountain passages. Visit sites in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and the museum, outdoor railroad display, working turntable and Massachusetts. By motor coach and by rail, you will be part of gift shop. an exciting adventure you will not want to miss. Make your Kancamagus Highway - Travel New Hampshire’s most reservation early as this tour sells out quickly. A $100 deposit scenic roadway, filled with breath-taking, mountain vistas. per person is due with reservation. Full refund is cancelled 45 Time for photo-ops. Capture great foliage shots!!! days prior to departure. We will depart Manassas at 6:15 a.m. Historic Inn Dinner - Tuck into hearty New England fare in and Woodbridge at 7:00 a.m. Return time is approximately the warm atmosphere of the historic Woodstock Inn. Tuck into 7:00 p.m. a hearty New England fare in the warm atmosphere of the The Itinerary historic Woodstock Inn. Day #1 – Arrive at the Holiday Inn Express, Albany, NY - Day #5 – Expanded Continental Breakfast Dinner Included The Rocks Estate Maple Experience – Perched on pristine Day #2 – Expanded Continental Breakfast - With hot mountainous terrain, this multi-functional estate encompasses choices. a huge Christmas tree farm, maple sugar house and Saratoga - North Creek Railway Excursion - Begin in scenic production, gift shop and more. Travel through scenic Saratoga Springs and journey through the heart of the rugged mountain passages to “The Rocks”. Enjoy an interactive Adirondack Mountain Range along the mighty Hudson River virtual tour at the Rocks Estate of the sap boiling process in with a fabulous back-drop of mammoth mountain peaks, alleys the sugarhouse and maple museum. See and learn how and quaint village tucked in between. sweet treats were made from Native American times to North Creek Village - Take time for lunch on own and browse present day. the shops. Littleton, NH - Stop in this charming village for lunch on own Wilson Castle - Tour through this 1867 authentic English and shopping. manor known for its intricate architectural design, European Mount Washington Mountaintop w/ BBQ Dinner – Get and Far East furnishings, 84 stained glass windows and ready for a one-of-a-kind experience to the very top of New extensive art collection. England's tallest peak at 6,228 feet! Your "Stage Driver" will Arrive at the Cortina Inn and Resort, Killington, VT - enlighten you from base to summit with anecdotes, legends, Dinner Included history and insight into the ecological wonder of Mount Day #3 – Deluxe Continental Breakfast Washington not to mention the incredible vistas en route. Vermont Country Store and Covered Bridge - Stocked to Photo-ops abound at the summit, surrounded by the 750,000- the rafters with a wide variety of locally made award-winning acre White Mountain National Forest, where views on a clear Vermont cheeses, rows of penny candy, kitchen gadgets and day may extend as far as Vermont, New York, Maine, endless items from the past. Take a stroll through the Kissing Massachusetts, Quebec, and at times even the Atlantic Bridge and visit the Grist Mill Museum. Ocean! Check out the Mount Washington Observatory Green Mountain Flyer Rail Excursion - Ride in fully restored offering the interactive “Extreme Mt. Washington Museum”. 1930’s antique passenger coaches pulled by a vintage After your descent to base camp, enjoy a yummy BBQ dinner. locomotive. Travel along the Connecticut and Williams Rivers. Day #6 – Expanded Continental Breakfast – Pass by covered bridges, a beautiful cascading waterfall and Kellerhaus Candy - Stop at the Kellerhaus, New Hampshire’s Brockway Mills Gorge. Cross over the rivers for breath-taking oldest candy makers for a candy making demonstration and views. taste. Great gift shop with New Hampshire products. Woodstock Village - A true New England village nestled in New Hampshire Lakes Region Tour - Meet your guide and the mountains. Take time for lunch on own, browsing the discover glorious lakes region. See Squam Lake, the location shops and a walk through the covered bridge. of the “On Golden Pond” film. Hear about the history, Sugarbush Farm - Visit this working farm, known for its geography, wildlife and enjoy the incredible scenery. wonderful Vermont cheeses and maple sugar. Enjoy the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad with Lunch - Discover New delicious samples. Learn about maple sugaring with a sugar Hampshire's largest lake by rail as you enjoy a hand-carved, house tour and enjoy the views from this hill-side farm. roast turkey lunch (prepared by the famous Hart’s Turkey Arrive at the Fairfield Inn & Suites, Plymouth, NH for 3 Farm) aboard vintage coaches of the Winnipesaukee Railway. Enjoy your scenic excursion hugging the picturesque HOLLYWOOD CASINO shoreline, surrounded by mountain outcrops, with views of Charles Town, WV "Grand Style Resorts", pristine woodlands, lake wild life and Reservations Open Immediately more. 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