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Red Hattitude Holiday Tour, 1 Day, Central PA
Two days filled with red & purple, and highlighted with holiday merriment
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n Visit Victoria House Restaurant for a colorful meal including lavender chicken, purple rice, red velvet sponge cake and more!
n Take home a red or purple poinsettia from a local site that is a winter wonderland full of decorated holiday trees, wreaths, swags and decorations. Midweek tours have an option of a special holiday presentation to help you add a bit of holiday flare to your home or learn about the symbolism and uses of lavender keeping with the purple theme.
n Enjoy a tour and demo at Colonial Candlecrafters and perhaps a get a head start on holiday shopping.
n Visit a German-inspired Christlkindl Market complete with artisan vendors’ holiday music, and delicious foods or enjoy a holiday theatre presentation or our own heritage entertainer bringing to life music from the region's 19th century heyday including holiday favorites.
n Be treated like a Queen during a tour of Williamsport's Millionaires' Row including appetizers in one mansion and a gourmet meal in another!
* Tour designed for November/ December travel and will be customized to meet client's needs. 2011 dates for Christlkindl Market are Dec. 8-10.
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Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!, 1Day, Williamsport Area
A girl's best friend.
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n Enjoy a Chocolate Lovers Trio Dessert Class at a culinary arts school where a professional chef will teach you how to make a chocolate orange mousse tart, chocolate espresso decadence bits and Bailey's Irish cream chocolate shooters. Volunteers from your group will be called upon to assist during the class and everyone will receive an apron with the school's logo as a special souvenir. Lunch will be included at Le Jeune Chef, the school's teaching restaurant and will of course include one of the desserts you learned to make in class!
n End the day with a cruise along the Susquehanna River aboard the Hiawatha Paddlewheeler where you'll enjoy not beautiful scenery but also chocolate martinis and/or chocolate trufflettes!
* Available mid-May through mid-August.
Consider making this a wonderful overnight for the girls by combining this tour with our Girls Just Want To Have Fun Tour detailed just below. This overnight combination works great as a Friday-Saturday getaway!
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| Girls Just Want To Have Fun!, 1 Day, Lewisburg
Antique treasures, shopping and a delicious Victorian Tea!
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n Stroll among Tiffany glass, Chippendale furniture, quilts and other collectibles at the Packwood House Museum filled with art and antiques from Edith Fetherston's around-the-world shopping sprees. An inspiration for those with the shopping bug.
n Explore Lewisburg's eclectic blend of cafes, art galleries and boutiques while taking in the beautiful Victorian architecture of this historic area.
n Visit Colonial Candlecrafters for a workshop tour, candle-decorating demo and browsing.
n Finish the day a the Victoria House Restaurant, a 19th-century showpiece where you'll be treated to an afternoon tea featuring finger sandwiches, scones and dessert sampler including white chocolate & pear mousse, chocolate berry bread pudding, orange shortbread and wine.
* Available Monday to Friday year round. For Saturday travel instead of visiting the candle shop we may visit a home & garden specialty shop or winery. For Sunday travel instead we may replace Packwood House with a visit to the Slifer House Victorian Museum Mansion and browse an antique center or indoor Street of Shops instead of downtown Lewisburg.
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| Red “Hattitude”, 1 Day, Lewisburg
A day filled with red and purple!
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n Visit Victoria House for an inspired luncheon where each course offers a bit of red or purple. Consider an endive and radicchio salad, lavender chicken and red velvet cake! As a special treat we can invite our own local Red Hatter, Mary Mitchell Savidge, the author of “Murder Wears a Red Hat”, to be on hand for a book signing and short talk about how to write your own novel. Copies of her book will be available for sale.
n Learn about lavender during a presentation at Country Farm & Home where everyone takes home as a special gift a lavender plant, or during the holiday season, a purple poinsettia.
n Try a variety of red wines during a tasting at Shade Mountain Winery.
n Tour Colonial Candlecrafters’ workshop, plus enjoy a candle-decorating demo and browsing among the colorful candles.
* Available weekdays, year round.
Make this an overnight by turning the luncheon into dinner, and on Day 2 including our Millionaires’ Row Progressive Luncheon. You’ll be treated like a millionaire on this special tour where appetizers will be served in a Queen Anne style mansion plus learn about Anne Weightman Walker Penfield, the wealthiest woman in the world in the late 1800’s and dubbed “Queen Midas” in her obituary.
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Think Pink!, 1-2 Days, Lewisburg/Williamsport Areas
A celebration of women.
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n A day of fun while meeting and learning about special women who have made their mark in life. Learn about Edith Fetherstone, one of the first female graduates of BucknellUniversityPackwood House Museum which was once at her home. Tour a candy factory dedicated to women and meet the owner of Colonial Candlecrafters who grew up in the business, then made it her own. Also visit a winery for a tour and tasting including blush wine for a pink treat, and meet a Red Hatter who wrote the book "Murder Wears a Red Hat" and shares tips on writing your own masterpiece. Available as a Goodie Bag Tour with pink bags and gifts at each site. Great as a fundraiser for a special cause!, and enjoy her collection of items from around the world at the
n Overnight tours may also include a visit to a fiber farm to meet a shepherdess who raises goats and sheep gathering their fleece and mohair to dye and spin. Also enjoy a gourmet meal at the Herdic House Restaurant, owned and operated by the Miele sisters who are dedicated to not only preserving Williamsport's Victorian heritage by taking on the restoration of a Victorian mansion to house their restaurant, but also to highlight the area's rich abundance of local foods on their menus. Learn about "Queen Midas" during a Millionaires' Row tour and enjoy a river cruise aboard the "Queen of the Susquehanna".
* One-day tour available Sunday through Friday, year round. Overnight available mid-May through August to visit fiber farm, October otherwise.
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Lucy's Jamestown& Erie's Lake, 2 Days
Erie & Jamestown city highlights and casino.
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n You'll find plenty to love on this overnight adventure including time in Jamestown, the hometown of Lucille Ball, plus activities in Erie. In Jamestown you'll vist the Lucy-Desi Museum dedicated to Lucy's life and television fame plus enjoy an "Eat-Like Lucy" spaghetti luncheon in the Tropicana and a driving tour of the city. In Erie you'll visit the Erie Maritime Museum, visit the Tom Ridge Environmental Center on Presque Isle featuring a short video, displays and glass lighthouse for great views and enjoy a driving tour of Presque Isle including stop at a historic lighthouse and the Perry Monument. Plus an optional evening at Presque Isle Downs Casino in Erie.
Try a Lucy & Ethel Girlfriend Getaway variation with Jamestown's Lucy sites, a winery or two (remember Lucy stomping grapes?) and a candy store (remember the candy factory episode?), plus a lunch cruise and casino.
* Options available May through mid -October.
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