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MARCH 2013
ONLINE:
SCTXCA.ORG
OUTINGS
purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at
or at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for outings listed for the first time will be available
Friday, March 1, at 8 a.m.
Rock-a-Long Wednesdays at the
Long Center: Pink Floyd - NEW!
Wednesday, May 15, $62 pp
Depart 5:30 p.m. from SCPL Return 10:30 p.m.
Prepare to rock like you’ve never
rocked before as you experience some of the
greatest rock and roll music of all time in an en-
tirely newway! The internationally acclaimed
Jeans ‘N’ Classics band recreates the legendary
music of rock and roll legends, as the Austin SymphonyOrchestra
adds a new and thrilling dimension. Dress is casual, and beer
and barbecue on the City Terrace will be available for purchase
prior to the concert.
Join us as we present a symphonic treatment of this groundbreak-
ing album–
The Dark Side of theMoon
by Pink Floyd. Arguably
the very best Pink Floyd album, this show will allow us to dust
off the synthesizers and sequencers taking you back to 1973.
Youwill have about an hour before the concert to enjoy the Austin
skyline from the terrace, and you may purchase a beverage or
barbecue available for sale.
Ticket cost includes transportation and concert.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Flo Zydowicz
Round Rock Express - Take Me Out to the
Ballgame! - NEW!
Thursday, May 16, $27 pp
Depart SCPL 3:30 p.m.; Return 10:30 p.m.
What better way to usher in the
summer than to watch America’s favorite
pastime – baseball! Come join us as we head
to Dell Diamond to see the Round Rock Ex-
press take on the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.
The Round Rock Express, a class Triple-A Pacific Coast Minor
League team, is in its fourteenth season, and Forbes ranked
it the second most valuable minor league franchise in 2012.
On our way to the game we will stop at HomeField Grill.
This locally owned and operated restaurant specializes in
wood grilling, so you may want to try a sizzling wood grilled
100% Texas grown Nolan Ryan all-natural burger or steak,
their signature Flamethrower Flatbread, or one of sev-
enty other delicious menu items. Since dinner is on your
own, you can spend or eat as much or as little as you like.
After dinner we head to the ball field in time to watch your
favorite players warm-up and get ready for the first pitch!
Note: There will be walking, rain or shine, and large
crowds at this outdoor event.
Ticket cost includes transportation and game ticket.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Sandra Celis
Governor’s Mansion, Scholz BBQ,
& LBJ Library - NEW!
Wednesday, May 22, $36 pp
Depart SCPL 9 a.m.; Return 4 p.m.
It’s “history day” in Austin
beginning with a tour of the renovated Gov-
ernor’s Mansion. The Greek revival mansion
completed in 1856 was burned in 2008 by an
unknown assailant and carefully restored.
The mansion has been home to our most famous families, in-
cluding Sam Houston, the Hoggs, and the Bush twins. We will
be divided into three groups for the twenty minute downstairs
tour.
Lunch will be at the 1866 Scholz Garten for their BBQ buffet of
brisket and turkey with all the trimmings topped off with Amy’s
Mexican vanilla ice cream. On the way, we will hear about the
founder August Scholz.
Our historic day will end at the newly renovated LBJ library.
This ten story modern building with its plain exterior opened
in 1971. You will be on your own to tour the Oval Office, items
from the White House years, and the presidential limousine.
IMPORTANT! – Security checks are required to tour the
mansion. BEFORE YOU PURCHASE TICKETS, please
gather information for all persons in your party.
At the
time of purchase, youmust provide driver’s license #, state, name
as it appears on the license, and date of birth for each person.
The deadline to purchase or sell tickets is Friday, May 3. If you
purchase tickets and then sell them to someone else, the buyer
MUST email the required information to jenny.phillips@sctexas.
org no later than Monday, May 6.
Ticket cost includes transportation, lunch, mansion tour and
library visit.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Ellen Mire
ZACH Theatre with dinner
at Tokyo Steakhouse - NEW!
Thursday, May 23, $105 pp
Depart SCPL 4 p.m.; Return 11:15 p.m.
The opening of ZACH ‘s new Top-
fer Theatre is a brand new Austin experi-
ence and I don’t want you to miss it. More
than double the size of the old theatre,
you enter the building through curtains
of glass into a light-filled lobby. We’re going to see “Harvey”,
the Pulitzer Prize winning comedy with Austin’s favorite ac-
tor, Martin Burke, starring as Elwood Dowd, the happy- go-
lucky chap with a kind word for everyone he meets, including
his invisible best friend, a six foot rabbit named “Harvey.”
When Elwood’s social-climbing sister decides to have him com-
