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OUTINGS
Purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at www.sctxca.orgor at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for outings listed for the first time will be available Friday, February 1, at 8 a.m.
Esther’s Follies & Pappadeaux’s Seafood
Kitchen - NEW!
Thursday, April 11, $67
Depart 4:30 p.m. Return 10:30 p.m.
Enjoy a delicious dinner and a hilari-
ous show at a very reasonable price. Our eve-
ning begins at Pappadeaux with their famous
salad. Choose fromthe following entrées: Ginger
Salmon, a char-grilled fillet; PanGrilledTilapia
topped with toasted hazelnuts; Mixed Seafood Grill, a skewer
of assorted char-grilled seafood served with dirty rice; Pasta
Mardi Gras, linguine tossed with crawfish, andouille sausage
and crimini mushrooms in amarinara sauce; or Crispy Chicken
Tenderloin Fingers with French fries. Choose vanilla cheesecake
with fresh strawberries or key lime pie in a grahamcracker pecan
crust for dessert. A cash bar will be available with ample time
for a beverage of your choice. Your ticket price includes coffee,
tea, tip and tax.
After dinner we will board our motor coach and go to Esther’s
Follies in downtownAustin. This show is amix of skits of current
events, amazing magic, great music and incredible costumes –
all with a Texas-size sense of humor. If you’ve already been to
Esther’s Follies, join us again. The material is fresh, funnier
than you remember and will provide another evening of true
entertainment. First-timers, you haven’t seen anything until you
experience Esther’s Follies, the “talk of the town.” If laughter is
good for the soul, this show will add years to your life!
Ticket cost includes transportation, dinner, and great seats for
Esther’s Follies.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Anita Reed
Gruene Hall – Gospel Brunch with
a Texas Twist - NEW!
Sunday, April 14, $48 pp
Depart SCPL 8 a.m.; Return 4 p.m.
Set amongst the rollingHills of Tex-
as, the small community of Gruene, settled by
the Germans around 1840, is one of our most
popular destinations. This outing is back by
popular demand after our great trip last year.
The NewOrleans style gospel brunch in the famous Gruene Hall
is led by Bret Graham, a local favorite, along with “The Gospel
Silvertones” one of Austin’s newest groups performing all over
the state. The music lasts ninetyminutes and ends with a bang!
The one and only Gristmill Restaurant caters the all you can
eat buffet which includes roasted turkey breast, seasoned roast
beef, Polish wedding sausage and pepper bacon. Garlic mashed
potatoes, migas, scrambled eggs, French toast, bisquits, fried
apples, fruit and juices along with coffee accompany the meal.
What a feast! Seating is family style at long, picnic-style clothed
tables. If you need a cushion, please bring it along.
After all of that food we have two hours to roam around this
historic town, shop and hopefully see some bluebonnets. Note
that walking around this town is over uneven and unpaved
walkways. Wear comfortable shoes.
After the brunch concludes, the tables are removed and country
music begins at 1 p.m. so feel free to sit, relax and enjoy more
toe-tapping music.
Ticket cost includes transportation, brunch and music show.
Deadline for ticket purchase is April 10.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Ellen Mire
Cajun Country Tour: Lafayette, LA area
Monday, April 15 - Sunday, April 21
Double occupancy tickets must be purchased as a pair.
$585 pp double occupancy; $795 pp single occupancy
Depart SCPL on Monday, 7 a.m.; Return Sunday, 5 p.m.
Cajun Country is
the land of the Calcasieu, Teche and Atchafa-
laya; Macque Choix and Boudin, Zydeco and
Swamp Pop. Enjoy the crocsignoles and muf-
fulettas, gumbo and etouffee, see the alligators and the egrets,
visit plantations and swamps. This is CajunCountrywhere there
is a little lagniappe and lots of bon temps. Laissez les bons temps
rouler! On the way to Louisiana we have lunch at Golden Corral
in Beaumont, and stop in Jennings, LA to play with an alligator
or two. Tuesday begins at the Jean LafitteNational Park to learn
the history of The Acadians and the mystique of Evangeline.
Then we go to Vermillionville for lunch, a Cajun cooking lesson
and a tour of the village where the city of Lafayette began. The
day ends with a tour of the Mouton House at the Lafayette Mu-
seum and a drive downtown Lafayette.
Out to Atchafalaya swamp on Wednesday for a view from the
second longest bridge in the US, then into the swamp for a boat
trip and visit with the alligators. Lunch at Crawfish Town USA
includes a tour and demonstration of the cleaning and preparation
of these delicacies. After lunchwe visit the Longfellow-Evangeline
State Historic Site and the Olivier Plantation. St. Martinville is
known as the home of Evangeline. Our tour includes the Evan-
geline Oak, St. Martin Church and the Evangeline statue.
Thursday begins at the Konriko Rice Mill, the oldest in the US,
followed by a visit to Shadows-On-The-Teche, an antebellum
sugar plantation. Lunch is at Bon Creole, voted the best Poboys
in Louisiana. Then we get hot and humid at Avery Island with
a tour of the Tabasco Factory and Country Store.
Start Friday at the Bayou Teche museum, learning how the
Spanish town of New Iberia got planted in the middle of French
Louisiana. After a brief visit to the Delcambre Canal shrimp