August 3, 2010 - Tuesday
Appx Return: 8:00 PM

Price: $102 per person

"A Wine Pairing Picnic"

Irving, NY

Meet our guide and travel the Concord Vintage Trail to Roberian Winery. Taste their wines and learn how to hold a glass, swirl, swish, and sip the proper way.

Enjoy a wine pairing picnic in the covered, open air pavilion at Woodbury Vineyards. Start with cheese and crackers and Seaport Red. Cleanse your pallet with a salad followed by Pasta Florentine and Seaport White.

Next, feast on a stuffed pork chop, parsleyed potatoes, a vegetable medley, and Seaport Blush. Top off your picnic with a raspberry trifle and Red Renard.

Visit the Chautauqua County Farm Museum, voted the #1 museum by tour groups! You’ll see everything from horse drawn buggies and sleighs to one of the original electric popcorn poppers.

There are hand drilled 20’ long wooden water pipes and a wonderful 1800’s kitchen display, but we’ll be concentrating on the antique farm and grape equipment.

Visit the Baker Museum. See a restored Victorian parlor with parlor organ and changing exhibits.

The last winery stop will be at Merritt Estate Winery. Watch a video on grape growing. See the tank room and their high-tech bottling line. Sample their award winning wines.

Departure Times

Office
Rockside Road & I-77
Akron

7:00 AM
6:45 AM
6:15 AM

August 7, 2010 - Saturday
Appx Return: 8:00 PM

Price: $89 per person

"66th Annual Gerry Rodeo"

Gerry, NY

Grab your boots and bandanna for the Gerry Rodeo, the longest consecutively running rodeo east of the Mississippi.

The Gerry Volunteer Fire Department has hosted the Rodeo for 66 years and this is their annual fund raiser.

Enjoy bareback, bronc, and bull riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing, and a western beef barbecue to whet any appetite.

Stroll the small midway for games and concessions.

Departure Times

Office
Rockside Road & I-77
Akron

7:45 AM
7:30 AM
7:00 AM

August 26, 2010 - Thursday
Appx Return: 8:00 PM

Price: $88 per person

"Main Street Boutiques"

Irving, NY

Meet our guide and enjoy the Silver Creekside Shoppes.

Shop at Uncle Sam’s Unlimited, featuring a blend of militaria, outdoor clothing and accessories, children’s clothing, flags, canvas bags, and White’s metal detectors.

Next door is Strings and Things, filled with yarn, looms, and hand woven goods. Best Friends Country Store has antiques, quilts, glassware, candles, new and vintage costume jewelry, and local artisans’ paintings.

Watch award winning artists create stained glass art at Creation Station. Shop for seaglass, vintage silver and glassware art, jewelry, ornaments, sun catchers, garden stakes, nautical gift ware, and lamps.

Lunch is at The 1868 White Inn. Discover four unique boutiques of Fredonia.

Enjoy a short walk between them or shuttle on the motorcoach to choose from Randy’s Antiques, filled to the brim with glass, unique smalls, furniture, jewelry, collectibles, or Time Pieces, specializing in tea cups, teas and coffees, brass items, collectibles, local artisans, and glassware. Tower Gifts is located in a beautiful mansion and each room offers gift ware with a theme, bath toiletries, greeting cards, holiday jewelry, and a children’s room.

Lily Pad Fashions features comfortable, fun to wear clothing and accessories for real women. They carry Wild Things–Wild Women, Red’s Threads, and burned out velvet jackets, coats, earth friendly shoes, jewelry, slippers, bamboo shoes, and plants.

Browse Dunkirk Boardwalk Market, located on the new waterfront. Taste and purchase local wines, shop for purses and other ladies accessories. There is a cigar shop, Irish pub, ice cream stand, gift shops, and gourmet foods and beverages.

Around the corner is Papaya Arts featuring clothing, eclectic home décor, handcrafted jewelry, and even the bathroom sink! This is a great store!

Departure Times

Office
Rockside Road & I-77
Akron

6:30 AM
6:15 AM
5:45 AM