OWLs Trips Older Wiser Lutherans (OWLs) The Older Wiser Lutherans (OWLs) Trips: This group was started in 2002 when Pastor Check served as Visitation Pas- 2004 Yellowstone tor at Grace. 2006 Winnipeg, Canada
2008 Rocky Mountain National Park
2010 Glacier National Park
2012 Wisconsin State Parks
It was modeled after a similar group
Pastor Check started at Trinity in Rhinelander as an opportunity for fun and fellowship. OWLs Fall Trip
At Grace the monthly meeting has fiz- zled out, but the trip has continued. The uniqueness of this trip is its fun, September 17-20 friendships, Bible Study, sightseeing This trip is blessed by having Grace’s and fellowship.. own Dan Schuller assist in planning. Grace Lutheran Church Mr. Schuller is the Director of the Join us in 2012 as we tour the rivers, Tomahawk Wisconsin State Parks. Join us for an hills, and State Parks of Southwest Wis- inside look at the beauty of Wiscon- consin, and as Pastor Check introduces us to the hills and streams of Jesus’ sin at the best time home. The Grace Lutheran OWLs (Older Wiser Lutherans) trip will be in September this year REGISTRATION OWLs Trip—Fall, 2012 and will take us to the coulees of southwest- ern Wisconsin. This is the area also known as The total cost is $400.00 per person. This will the Driftlless area where the last glacier did include: bus, lodging, continental breakfasts, not come. Our journey will take us to a num- number of picnics, number of main meals, all Day 1 Monday ber of Wisconsin State Parks where with the tours and all park entrance fees. You shall be Parfrey’s Glenn State Refuge—Baraboo help of local naturalists we will leap back into responsible for a few meals on own. Devil’s Lake State park—Baraboo the past. Tower Hill State Park—Spring Green First Deadline is April 15 Our journey will take us to outstanding geo- Lodging—Dodgeville $25 each person logical formations and coulees and rivers and Guarantees a place on the trip, Day 2 Tuesday creeks including the not so mighty Wisconsin after April 15 is as room allows. Hollandale Lutheran Church and the very mighty Mississippi. We shall drive
Tour of Swiss Cheese Factory in Hollandale to the heights of some pretty impressive bluffs Final Deadline is June 15 Pendarvis House Mineral Point looking down at the streams below and we $375 balance is due. Irish Minder Special Luncheon shall navigate the many curves created by the Wyalusing State Park- - Bridgeport coulees where little farmsteads are tucked Name: ______Lodging—Prairie du Chen hidden behind the trees. We shall behold ______“white swans” in the wildlife refuge and lots of other waterfowl in the Mississippi lowlands. Email: ______We shall “ooh” and “ah” as the spray from the
La Crosse Queen sprays us with water as we Phone: ______steam between the islands of the Mighty Mis-
sissippi near La Crosse. We shall walk among
the barns and out buildings of a Norwegian Please add concerns and comments that may
Homestead nestled in the hills north of Coon determine your interest or ability to go on
Valley. We shall even enter the “home” where this trip:
we shall see how it was way back before us….
Well some of us at least. ______
And oh my yes there will be stories to hear Day 3 Wednesday ______and tell, there will be moments of history to Effigy Mounds National Monument celebrate with the “bus news reporter” and ______ Villa Louis—Prairie du Chen there will be good things to eat and some that La Crosse Queen Mississippi Cruise you wondered why you did. There will be a ______ Granddad Bluff– Special Dinner daily journey into the pages of the “holy book” ______Lodging—La Crosse by the resident theologian monitored reli- ______Day 4 Thursday giously with a local timer limiting any conver- Perrot State Park—Trempealeau sation to 42 minutes sharp. There might even ______Norskedalen—Coon Valley be time to sleep to ready oneself for the new Burnstad Grocery Luncheon—Tomah horizons of the next dawning. Oh, what a jour- Necedah Wildlife Center ney this will be!