22 | SUNRAYS FEBRUARY 2015
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Cajun Country Tour – Lafayette, LA
Monday, March 9 – Saturday, March 14
$670 pp double occupancy; $760 pp single occupancy
Depart The Oaks Monday 8 a.m.;
Return Saturday 5 p.m.
Ticket purchase deadline: Friday, February 20
This is the trip you have heard about from
your friends and neighbors - Cajun Country
- Land of Bon Temps. Enjoy the food, see the
alligators and the egrets; visit plantations,
historic homes and swamps.
Monday:
Stops along the way to LA – The Village Market,
St. Carmine, TX; lunch at Golden Corral, Beaumont (included);
afternoon stop in Jennings, LA to play with an alligator or two.
After hotel check-in at the Wingate by Wyndham in Lafayette,
dinner at Prejean’s (included).
Tuesday:
Acadia Cultural Center, Jean Lafitte National Park
for a movie and museum visit; lunch in Vermillion Ville at La
Cuisine (included); Mouton House at the Lafayette Museum;
Borden’s Ice CreamShoppe; dinner on your own at Deano’s pizza.
Wednesday:
Second longest bridge in the US; McGee’s Landing;
lunch on your own at Crawfish Town USA (includes tour
and demo of crawfish cleaning and preparation); Longfellow-
Evangeline State Historic Site; dinner at Don’s Seafood
(included).
Thursday:
Konriko Rice Mill; Shadows-on-the-Teche, an
antebellum sugar plantation; lunch at Bon Creole (best Poboys
in Louisiana); Avery Island tour of the Tabasco Factory and
Country Store; dinner on your own.
Friday:
Bayou Teche museum; Delcambre Canal shrimp docks;
lunch at Jefferson Restaurant (Choices: seafood gumbo and
chef salad; chicken and sausage gumbo and 1/2 loco turkey
sandwich; crawfish bisque and ¼ muletta); Rip Van Winkle
Gardens; Joseph Jefferson plantation home; dinner on your own.
Saturday:
Back to Sun City
Ticket cost includes transportation, hotel, admissions to all
venues, daily breakfasts, four lunches and two dinners.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Judy Schlobohm
Texas History – Gonzales
Lunch –Which Wich Box Lunch
Wednesday, March 18, $53 pp
Depart SCPL 7:30 a.m.; Return 6:30 p.m.
On October 2, 1835, eighteen
townsmen, forever linked with heroes of
the revolution, stood on the banks of the
Guadalupe River and refused to give up
their small cannon to the Mexican Army.
The Texians carried a battle flag showing a cannon on a white
background with words that would echo through the years,
“Come and Take It.”
Explore the beginnings of the Texas Revolution touring these
famous sites: GonzalesMemorial Museumbuilt to commemorate
the Immortal 32 who died at the Alamo; Gonzales Battlefield
where the first shot was fired and the battle began; the Braches
plantation home and the SamHouston Oak where SamHouston
received news the Alamo had fallen and gave orders to begin
the Runaway Scrape; and the Hamon Church in Pioneer Park
where the ghosts of former congregations are said to gather as
visitors settle into the pews.
Independence Park will be our noon stop for a box lunch
from Which Wich. Select a sandwich choice when purchasing
tickets. Options: roast beef with cheddar; hamwith Swiss; OR
turkey with pepper jack. Wheat bread, lettuce and tomato for
all sandwiches; chips, cookie, condiments and bottled water
included. We will also make a morning coffee stop at Buc-ee’s
before our tours begin.
Ticket cost includes transportation, tours, and lunch.
Volunteer Trip Leader: Jerilee Prather
Houston – Ridiculous to Sublime!
– Two Night Overnight
Thursday, March 26 – Saturday, March 28
$336 pp double occupancy; $426 pp single occupancy
Depart SCPL Thursday, 9 a.m.; Return Saturday, 4 p.m.
Ticket Purchase Deadline: Friday, February 27
(limited to 40 passengers)
Not an
ordinary tour, come see “Hidden Houston” as
well as some of the great attractions that made
this city famous.
Thursday:
Lunch stop at Chappell Hill BBQ
(included) in Brenham for your choice of meat and sides. Then
we visit Bayou Bend, the enchanting home and gardens of Ima
Hogg. Then it is the opposite extreme as we see the outside of a
house totally covered in beer cans! Finally we will go to a huge
Asian market where you can experience a grocery that sells
things you may have never seen before. Dried squid, anyone?
Our hotel for two nights is the Memorial City Westin Hotel.
Connected to a large shopping center via a sky walk, you
will have your choice of restaurants for dinner on your own –
everything from fast food to upscale dining.
Friday:
After breakfast at the hotel (included), we head to
the National Museum of Funeral History, which contains a
fascinating collection of funeral objects, including old hearses.
At our next stop, half of our group will go to lunch at Treebeards
Restaurant, located within a church. Meanwhile, the other
half will enjoy a docent-led trip to underground Houston, a
tunnel system running for miles under the city and housing
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
Monday, February 2, at 8 a.m.
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