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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 Monday, Nov. 2, at 8 a.m.

Key to Outings suitable to everyone.

SCPL - Social Center Parking Lot Before the musical we head to the Domain for dinner on your
CCPL - Cowan Creek Parking Lot own. There is a wide variety of restaurants from which to choose.
Drop-off and re-boarding will be at Albert Finn.
Level 1 – Light Activity Bus trip over approx.
Level 2 – Moderate Activity 3 hours Ticket cost includes transportation and orchestra rows D-Q
Level 3 – Active Activity seats for the show.
Overnight stay
Meal provided Walking - Expect a Volunteer Trip Leader (Wednesday): Ellen Mire
Requires climbing in walking tour or a large
and out of a boat venue Volunteer Trip Leader (Thursday): Valerie Weis
Walking and steps
Bus is wheelchair Galveston Island Thanksgiving
accessible
Wednesday, November 25 – Saturday, November 28
3 Breakfast Buffets; Thanksgiving Day Buffet
(All Other Meals on Your Own)
$715 pp double occupancy; $954 pp single occupancy
Depart The Oaks Parking Lot on Wednesday, 8 a.m.;
Return on Saturday, 7 p.m.
Ticket Purchase Deadline: Tuesday, November 3

PERK Cards! The luxurious Moody
Gardens Hotel will be home for our three-night
Every time you travel on an outing stay. The hotel offers amenities of a four-star
planned by the Lifestyle Department, hotel, including mini fridge, complimentary
you will receive a card to fill out and
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draw a card monthly and the lucky will have a voucher for their huge breakfast buffet each morning.
winner will receive a 50% discount on a future CA bus outing of
your choice! (Note: Excludes overnight outings). We will notify :HGQHVGD\- Upon arrival in Galveston, lunch will be on
the winner via phone and email. your own at Pier 21, with menus and suggestions on the four
restaurants provided. Next will be a guided tour of the Texas
Our Perk Card winner was Jeanette Peters. Seaport Museum and Elissa sailing ship. After checking into
Congratulations, Jeanette! Thank you for being a frequent the Moody Gardens Hotel, enjoy dinner on your own at one of
traveler on our bus outings. their restaurants.

If you have any questions about our outings, please Thursday and Friday - Unlimited access to the Moody Gardens
contact Lifestyle & Activities, 512-948-7392. attractions. Visit the Aquarium where four oceans of the world
contain such ocean seafarers as penguins and sharks. The
“Kinky Boots” – Bass Hall – Austin
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Dinner on Your Own birds, orchids, turtles and much more. See the IMAX movies or
Thursday, November 12, $120 pp take a ride on the paddle-wheel boat.
Depart SCPL 4 p.m.; Return 11:30 p.m.
Thursday - Our Thanksgiving Buffet will be at 1 p.m. giving
Remember Nancy Sinatra’s theme you time to roam the gardens and have a leisurely breakfast.
song, These Boots Are Made for Walking? Well, The main dining room will feature ice sculptures and live music
boots are still fashionable and walking all the
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“Kinky Boots” by Cyndi Lauper. salads, veggies, desserts, coffee and tea for a sumptuous meal.
Thursday night welcomes the holiday season with the Festival
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England. When Charlie Price suddenly inherits his father’s shoe
factory, all he sees is $ signs! He quickly learns that the handsome Friday - We begin with a tour of the 1894 Opera House followed
men’s shoes his father made are no longer in style. Facing ruin by the movie The Great Storm, which documents the disaster of
and closure of his beloved factory, a despondent Charlie meets 1900. Lunch will be on your own at one of the restaurants along
Lola, the sassy and fabulous drag queen. Soon Charlie and Lola the ocean front. In the afternoon, we tour Bishop’s Palace, the
are in business together creating custom boots for drag queens, Galveston Beauty. That evening we travel to the Pleasure Pier
and their lives are changed forever. This is a heart-warming tale for dinner on your own at places such as Bubba Gump’s. B
with rock and classic Broadway tunes and an uplifting story;
however, the show does contain subject matter that may not be Saturday - Enjoy a sightseeing tour of Galveston before strolling
The Strand for shopping and lunch on your own. We will leave

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