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OUTINGS

Purchase your tickets for CA Sponsored Outings at www.sctexas.org or at the Member Services Office.
Tickets for outings listed for the first time will be available Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 8 a.m.

time we return, it will be dark so we can enjoy the lights from Homestead Heritage Fair – Waco
the shops on the river.
Lunch on Your Own
On Friday, we will check out of the hotel in the morning and load Saturday, November 28, $25 pp
our luggage on the bus, but we are not heading home just yet! Depart SCPL 8:15 a.m.; Return 5:15 p.m.
Options: sightseeing tour on our bus; shopping at River Walk Mall
for day-after-Thanksgiving sales; The Alamo; glass elevator to Join us as we travel to a unique
the top of the Towers of the Americas; UT San Antonio’s Institute place just outside Waco for the 28th annual
of Texas Cultures. If you want to venture farther, trolley rides Homestead Fair. This is your opportunity to
are available. spend a lovely fall day outdoors enjoying craft
demonstrations such as woodworking with hand
If you wish, you may purchase two tickets for this outing so that tools, pottery, sewing, quilting, spinning, weaving, broom making,
you may invite non-Sun City residents to go with you. Exclusion: basket making, leather work and more. In addition, this outing
No one under age 18 is allowed with our group. gives you the opportunity to do some Christmas shopping. Browse
among hundreds of handcrafted gifts and specialty items. There
Ticket cost includes transportation, hotel, Thanksgiving meal, will also be agricultural demonstrations, including draft horse
and river cruise (tip included). farming, cow and goat milking, sheep herding with a sheepdog,
and cider pressing, as well as exhibits on beekeeping, poultry
Volunteer Trip Leader: Bobbi Heuss raising, farm animals, and more.

Visit the community’s website at www.homesteadfair.com to
see a schedule for this year’s event and to read more about the
beginnings and purpose of the nearby Christian community.

Ticket cost include transportation and entrance to the fair.

Volunteer Trip Leader: Mary Hoverson

During a field trip to San Antonio, Garden Club members and friends visited the Japanese Tea Garden. The entrance gate
was erected in the 1940s, during a short period when the garden was renamed the Chinese Tea Garden.

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