Gladstone Parks & Recreation GLADSTONE 50+ NEWS June & July 2014 423-4086 DAY TRIPS Wine & Roses - Today, there are about 4,000 roses of nearly 168 varieties in the 1.5 acre garden. Next, you will All day trips depart from the west side of Happy Rock visit the rose garden at Unity Village. Featuring more Park, 76th & old Antioch Road. than 800 rose bushes and 62 rose varieties, the Unity Vil- lage rose garden has been a place of serenity and beauty PRIMROSE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY - FRI- for decades. You will enjoy a delicious lunch at Henry’s DAY, MAY 23 - You will enjoy a tour of this independ- Tea Room in Lee’s Summit. After lunch you will visit ent and assisted living facility followed by a late lunch. Stonehaus Winery. You will sample classic dry reds, Cost: $10.00 includes transportation, tour and lunch. Bus semi-sweet whites, dessert wines and port. The building departs at 12:15 p.m. and will return at approximately at Belvoir Winery in Liberty was built in 1900, and has 3:00 p.m. Reservation deadline: May 16th. served as a children's home built & operated by the Inde- WEST BOTTOMS ANTIQUES - FRIDAY, JUNE 6 - pendent Order of the Odd Fellows. The current owner, The West Bottoms of Kansas City has been a central mar- Dr. Bean & his wife Marsha began growing grapes to ful- ketplace dating back to the early 19th century. Antique fill their dream shortly after purchasing the property. stores have taken over the area and most are only open on They now grow 4 varieties in their vineyard. You will the first Friday weekend of each month. There are ap- sample six wines while here. Cost: $37.00 includes proximately 16 unique stores and shops. When you get transportation and lunch. Bus departs at 8:30 a.m. and hungry, there are several food trucks offering a variety of will return at approximately 4:30 p.m. Reservation dead- delicious foods. Cost: $8.00 includes transportation. line: June 6th. Bus departs at 9:30 a.m. and will return at approximately CHESTNUT FINE ARTS “BOB & BING”- 2:30 p.m. Reservation deadline: May 30th. SATUDAY, JUNE 21 - Bob Hope & Bing Crosby were GARDEN VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY great friends. The magic of their personal friendship TUESDAY, JUNE 17 - Enjoy a tour of the facilities and came to life on the screen and led to a series of “Road” lunch at Garden Village. Cost: $10.00 includes transpor- pictures starring the two pals. “Bob & Bing” features their tation, tour and lunch. Bus departs at 10:15 a.m. and will humor and duos – Road to Morocco, Put It There Pal, The return at approximately 1:30 p.m. Deadline: June 6th. Whiffenpoof Song and more. You will enjoy dinner after the show at Garozzo’s in Olathe where the entrée choices T-BONES BASEBALL - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 - are Chicken Spedini, Eggplant Parmigiano, and Lasagne. The 2008 Northern League Champion T-Bones are a sen- Cost: $58.00 includes transportation, show and dinner. sation in Kansas City, with beautiful Community America Bus departs at 1:45 p.m. and will return at approximately Ballpark located in the Village West area of the Legends. 8:00 p.m. Deadline: May 22nd. With a scaled-down ballpark and a small-town feel, the T- Bones play an old-time style of baseball. And with a fam- ST. JO FRONTIER CASINO - TUESDAY, JUNE 24 - ily-friendly environment, including crazy mascot acts and Lunch is free for our group in the buffet. Cost: $12.00 between-inning promotions. Cost: $23.00 includes trans- includes transportation. Bus departs at 8:45 a.m. and will portation, Choice Seats, a soda and a hot dog. Bus de- return at approximately 3:30 p.m. Reservation deadline: June 13th. parts at 10:00 a.m. and will return at approximately 3:00 p.m. Reservation deadline: May 23rd. QUILTS & TAPESTRIES - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 KC FOODIE TOUR - THURSDAY, JUNE 19 - You - An heirloom quilt (1880’s) called “Blazing Star” will be will visit several unique food stores including the Great on exhibit with other heritage quilts at the Ben Ferrel Harvest Bread Company, 888 International Market, Platte County Museum. The quilt belongs to one of our Sprouts Farmers Market, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Gigi’s faithful travelers, Martha Noland, who will be there to Cupcakes, and Dean & Deluca. You will enjoy a deli- talk about it. You will enjoy lunch in Weston at Main cious lunch at Will Jenny’s in Overland Park. Cost: Street Galleria. Next you will visit the National Silk Art $40.00 includes transportation and lunch. Bus departs at Museum where you’ll see the most important and exten- 9:00 a.m. and will return at approximately 4:30 p.m. Res- sive exhibition of woven silk tapestry ever shown in the ervation deadline: June 6th. world. These tapestries are considered the most beautiful tapestries in existence, and right here in Weston! Cost: WINE & ROSES—FRIDAY, JUNE 20 - Today you’ll $32.00 includes transportation, tours and lunch. Bus de- visit two beautiful rose gardens and two popular wineries. parts at 10:00 a.m. and will return at approximately 3:30 The Loose Park Rose Garden was started in 1931 with p.m. Reservation deadline: June 6th. 120 rose plants. ROADS OF ARABIA - WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 - This KANSAS CITY HISTORY: GANGSTERS & landmark exhibition at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, STOCKYARDS - FRIDAY, JULY 18 - Enjoy a gang- is an unprecedented assembly of more than 200 recently ster guided tour that will explore the locations connected excavated objects, none of which had been seen outside of to the seamier side of Kansas City life. You will get an Saudi Arabia until 2010. You will enjoy a guided tour by a intimate look at Kansas City’s historic tough guys during knowledgeable docent as Roads of Arabia presents more the Pendergast “Political Machine”. You’ll be immersed than 7,000 years of largely unknown cultural history of the in a melodramatic look at mob homes and hangouts, turf Arabian Peninsula. The exhibit examines the impact of an- wars and infamous crimes like the Union Station massa- cient trade routes that traversed the peninsula, carrying pre- cre. You’ll enjoy a delicious lunch at Pierpont’s in Union cious frankincense and myrrh to the Mesopotamian and Station. Next you’ll visit the Kansas City Library and the Greco-Roman world and allowing for a vibrant exchange of special exhibit: Cowtown: History of the Kansas City both objects and ideas. Before your visit to the Nelson, you Stockyards. For more than a century the stockyards fed a will enjoy a delicious Mediterranean lunch at the Aladdin hungry nations. This exhibit features a historical treasure Café. Cost: $40.00 includes transportation, tour and lunch. trove of photographs, blueprints, maps, drawings, and Bus departs at 11:00 a.m. and will return at approximately documents celebrating the city’s great economic engine. 4:00 p.m. Reservation deadline: June 20th. Cost: $46.00 includes transportation, lunch and tours. Bus departs at 9:30 a.m. and will return at approximately HOLLYWOOD CASINO - TUESDAY, JULY 8 - Visit 3:00 p.m. Deadline: June 20th. Kansas City’s newest Casino at the Legends. Enjoy over 100,000 square feet of gaming including 2,000 of the new- CHESTNUT FINE ARTS “AMAZING GRACE” - est, most exciting slots and 40 big-time table games. Lunch SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 - Amazing Grace is a musical is on your own here. Cost: $8.00 includes transportation. revue full of gospel and spiritual favorites. An afternoon Bus departs at 9:30 a.m. and will return at approximately of entertainment and meaningful music is a treat anytime, 2:30 p.m. Reservation deadline: July 1st. but when the occasion includes a cast of talented perform- ers, it’s a must-see celebration! You’ll hear Amazing LUNCH OUT AT ANDRE’S TEAROOM- THURS- Grace, Fairest Lord Jesus, A Closer Walk With Thee and DAY, JULY 10 - A Kansas City tradition since 1955, in more. Join us for this special show – it will definitely addition to offering top of the line chocolates and pastries, leave you encouraged, grateful and most certainly smil- Andre's has also been serving gourmet lunches for over 50 ing! You will enjoy dinner after the show at bd’s Mongo- years at it’s restaurant south of the Country Club Plaza. lian Grill. Cost: $57.00 includes transportation, show and You will pay for lunch on your own. Cost: $8.00 includes dinner. Bus departs at 1:45 p.m. and will return at ap- transportation. Bus departs at 10:30 a.m. and will return at proximately 8:00 p.m. Reservation deadline: July 10th. approximately 1:30 p.m. Reservation deadline: July 2nd. ST. JO FRONTIER CASINO - TUESDAY, AUGUST THE NEW THEATRE “SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ” - 19 - Lunch is free for our group in the buffet. Cost: WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 OR $12.00 includes transportation. Bus departs at 8:45 a.m. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 - Four years running on and will return at approximately 3:30 p.m. Reservation Broadway, Smokey Joe’s Café is a compelling rock ’n’ roll deadline: August 12th. musical revue encompassing the songs of Leiber and Stol- ler, the inventors of this music genre. Their timeless songs “RODGER’S & HAMMERSTEIN’S SOUTH PACIF- provide the basis for this electrifying entertainment that had IC - SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 - at Off Center Theatre critics raving and audiences stampeding the box office dur- - Set in an island paradise during World War II, two par- ing its record-breaking Broadway run.