NEW YORK: TAKE A BITE OF THE BIG APPLE!
May 1-4, 2008
Join us as we take in the biggest, hippest and most magically exciting city of them all: New York! UW-Waukesha and UW-Sheboygan C.E. Directors Kathy Eckhardt and Valerie Graczyk will take you on a whirlwind four day three night tour of the Big Apple. You can also take an additional day tour (Radio City Music Hall, NBC TV Studios, Statue of Liberty and Harbor Cruise, Art Museums, and Ellis Island) led by Kathy or Valerie or explore New York on your own.

Upon landing in the “Big Apple” we begin our adventure with a tour of the City by the dynamic NY City entertainer and expert, Jane Marx who will preview New York’s major attractions. The first night we will view a popular Broadway play to be selected after January 1 when the new releases are announced. The second night we have orchestra seats for the murder mystery musical comedy, Curtains, featuring David Hyde Pearce who plays Niles on Fraser. David Pearce stars as a detective trying to solve the murder of the ‘talent-free leading lady’ who dies on opening night during her curtain call.

The fee is $1,649 per person based on double occupancy. Single occupancy fee is an additional $500. Fee includes: round trip coach and nonstop air transportation to Milwaukee and New York via Midwest Airlines; three night accommodations in a great Midtown Manhattan hotel; a tour and two Broadway performances. Don’t delay as we anticipate this trip filling quickly.

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AMERICAN GIRL PLACE
May 10, 2008, Chicago
7:30am - 9:30pm
Join us for a fabulous one day trip to the ever popular American Girl Place. American Girl Place is about creating a memory that will last a lifetime for girls, moms, grandmothers, and other important family members and friends. A bookstore, boutiques, photo studio, Café and a theater featuring a new live musical will bring to life the values that underlie the phenomenally popular American Girl line of books, dolls, accessories and girls’ clothing.

You will have plenty of time to shop, have lunch, enjoy a fantastic musical performance, and have dinner on your own before returning home. What a perfect gift! You will receive a confirmation letter 7-10 days prior to departure. There are no refunds on tours. Fee: $39 transportation only; $69 transportation and lunch in the American Girl Café; $69 transportation and American Girl Musical Revue, or $99 transportation, lunch and Revue. Note: must be 6 years or older to attend the Revue. Check it out at www.americangirl.com!

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11TH ANNUAL MILEAGERS GARDENS TOUR
Tuesday, May 13
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
This tour attracts perennial participants! Join us when we travel to Mileagers to purchase this year’s perennials and annuals for your gardens. Why Mileagers? There are 71 greenhouses open for you to explore. Everything for gardening and to enhance your outdoor living area is available here. Don’t wait to register as this trip fills each and every year! Included in your tour is: round trip transportation, lunch and a stop at Larson’s Bakery, home of the ever popular Kringle. You will receive a confirmation letter 7-10 days prior to departure. There are no refunds on tours. Fee: $59

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STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES: CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN
Friday, June 27
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Join UW-FDL and UW-Waukesha when we explore the second most-visited botanic garden of its size in the U.S.! Enjoy 23 gardens within 386 acres of ever-changing beauty! Your tour will include a tram tour of the gardens followed by a lunch (roast beef on baguette or old-fashioned cobb salad) and plenty of time left to explore the gardens on your own. This tour is scheduled to coincide with the blooming of over 45,500 roses (should the weather cooperate). You will receive a confirmation letter 7-10 days prior to departure. There are no refunds on tours. Fee: $69 includes round trip transportation, entrance fee, tram tour and lunch. Check it out at www.chicagobotanic.org.

Quick facts about the Chicago Botanic Gardens:
385 acres – 100 acres of woods, 81 acres of waterways; 23 gardens and 3 native habitats; 9 islands, 6 miles of shoreline; 15 acres of prairie; 255 bird species sighted; 46,000 members (the largest membership of any U.S. botanic garden); 3/4 million visitors (the second most-visited botanic garden of its size in the U.S.) and 2.3 million plants representing 9,434 plant varieties including: 15,151 trees; 921,671 bulbs 1,139,364 perennials; 14,704 aquatic plants and 60,557 shrubs.

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ZOOPOLIS TOUR - NATURE IN THE CITY
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
1-7 p.m. • Ticket Price: $10
Rain date: Wednesday, Aug. 6
Parkwatch presents a tour featuring seven private yards in Fond du Lac that encourage bio-diversity and offer habitat for wildlife. See rain-watered gardens, birdscaping and a no-mow lawn. Profits from the tour will be used for habitat restoration in city parks and along the rivers. This is a self-guided tour. A map will be provided. For more information, call 920-922-7931 or email: dbeck7931@charter.net.


BOSTON... A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Wednesday, October 1 thru Sunday, October 5, 2008
Founded in 1630 on the Charles River, Boston is one of the oldest cities in the US. Join us in historic Beacon Hill with narrow cobblestone streets, elegant Federal-style architecture and flowering window boxes. We will walk The Freedom Trail that links 16 historic sights, many of them associated with the revolution and the early days of the United States. The Beantown Trolley and Boston Harbor Cruise will take you to sights in Boston that interest you most, including the USS Constitution, Paul Revere House, site of the Boston Massacre, the Old State House, The Waterfront, Old North Church, and the Public Garden. On their famous “midnight ride”, William Dawes and Paul Revere alerted the colonists to the British advance—we will visit Cambridge, Lexington and Concord, the cities associated with the beginning of the revolution. These two historic towns bear witness to the war for American Independence. We will also take a look at some of America’s greatest and most influential writers, where they lived and wrote -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Wittman, and Henry David Thoreau.

Group leaders will be Kathy Palmer, UW-Manitowoc Continuing Education Director, and Cathy Paynter, UW-Fox Valley Continuing Education Director
Cost: $1,495 based on double occupancy. Add $600 for single occupancy.
Cost includes: airfare, hotel, ground transportation from campus to airport and return, trolley tour of Boston, bus trip to Lexington and Concord. $100 non-refundable deposit is necessary to hold reservation.

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