Trips
Trip Policies
*Trip leaders are unable to provide assistance to anyone who has limited mobility or that uses a wheelchair. Please arrange to have a friend or PCA register & pay to accompany and assist you. If available, please indicate when you are registering if you need seating in a handicap section.
*In the event you have to cancel your trip registration after the registration deadline, you will not receive a refund, unless someone else is able to go in your place.
*If you are not on the bus within 10 minutes of the departure time on the return trip home, you will be responsible for finding your own transportation back to FiftyNorth.
TRIP – TOWN AND AROUND
Sunday, September 6
2:00-4:00pm
Trip Leader: Kim Reis
Capacity: 30
Cost: Beverages purchases are on your own
Space: Meet at Keepsake Cidery – transportation is on your own
Address: 4609 135th St. E, Dundas
Registration deadline: September 3
*Please pre-register so we know how many to make the reservation for.
KEEPSAKE CIDERY
Meet your FiftyNorth friends and enjoy a Sunday afternoon of locally made beverages and live music. Keepsake Cidery crafts delicious, high-quality cider, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages using locally farmed and foraged ingredients. By employing time-honored techniques and allowing the native yeast to ferment, their natural ciders and wines embody the place and the season.
Music provided by Dimestore Watch
Dimestore Watch (often referred to as a band) is a local Americana, roots-rock, and alt-country group led by Jerry Johnson. Active around the Twin Cities and Northfield, Minnesota area, they frequently cover deeper cuts from the American roots and singer/songwriter songbook.
TRIP – STILLWATER RIVER BOAT CRUISE
Wednesday, September 16
9:30-3:15pm
Trip Leader: Kim Reis
Capacity: 30
Cost: $95 – Includes the bus, boat and lunch
Registration deadline: September 10
Welcome aboard our Stillwater River boat cruise! Experience the beauty of this National Parkway, the scenic St. Croix River from indoor comfort or on the viewing deck up top. A delightful lunch is included featuring a build your own sandwich, seasonal fruit, potato salad, and a cookie. Beverages are on your own. A cash bar is also available.
TRIP – LET’S MURDER MARSHA AT THE MANTORVILLE THEATRE COMPANY
Sunday, October 18
10:45-4:00pm
Trip Leader: Norma Monroe
Capacity: 10 minimum, 20 maximum
In the event we do not meet minimum capacity we may have to cancel this trip.
Cost: $75 Includes transportation in the YMCA van, food and performance.
Registration deadline: October 1
A happy housewife named Marsha, hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries, overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! What will Marsha do? How will the birthday surprise turn out? This is a terrific show for audiences who like their comedy broad, fast, and nonstop.
This show is a dinner theatre which means audience members will eat their meal at tables while watching the show at the theatre! Our dinner will be provided by Hidden Pines Bar & Grill. The meal of salad & breadsticks, baked ziti (with beef) and/or chicken alfredo, and mini cheesecakes or gluten-free chocolate cake will be served assisted buffet style. Water will be available. A cash bar will also be available with seltzers/pop/beer/wine (only cash and credit cards are accepted).
TRIP – OZARK JUBILEE BRANSON COUNTRY CHRISTMAS AT TREASURE ISLAND
Wednesday, November 4
10:30am-5:00pm
Trip Leader: Michelle Brant
Capacity: 30
Cost: $115 – Includes lunch, performance and transportation by Benjamin Bus, Inc.
Registration deadline: October 1
Direct from BRANSON the OZARK JUBILEE features an all-star cast of Branson’s top entertainers. This year presenting, “AN ALL NEW CHRISTMAS SHOW”, WITH NEW MUSIC, NEW JOKES, but the same, WORLD CLASS TALENT THAT YOU HAVE COME TO EXPECT! This year the OZARK JUBILEE will be honoring and paying tribute to our VETERANS, and thanking them for their SPECIAL SERVICE.
The entire second half of the show is a total variety of Christmas music. From traditional standards you’ll remember such as Silent Night, White Christmas and many more to some more contemporary Christmas selections. They will share with you the TRUE meaning of Christmas with music, comedy and message to provide an day of entertainment that will touch your heart.
*Lunch is included in the price – 2-slices of turkey, mashed potatoes & gravy, dressing, corn, rolls, assorted bars and coffee.
TRIP – CHASKA CURLING CENTER
Thursday, November 12
2:45-8:00pm
Trip Leader: Jim Pence
Capacity: 34
Cost: $60
Registration deadline: November 5
Precision, teamwork and strategy. Step into the world of Curling.
The Chaska Curling Club is housed in the Chaska Event Center. A large multipurpose facility south west of the Twin Cities. They boast of six “sheets” of ice and 1,000 members. Curling year round.
Upon arrival we will be greeted by Clay Orvik, the Curling and Event Center Supervisor. Clay will give us a brief tour of the facility which should include walking around the sheets of ice on a carpeted wooden walkway. We will not be on the actual ice. It’ll be chilly and cold enough to keep the ice frozen. About 40-46 degrees. Clay will give us an overview of what Curling is. The rules, history, rocks, brooms, sliding, teams (rinks), goal of the game and how to score.
Once the tour and tutorial are finished, we should be able to grab a bite to eat from the newly remodeled Copperfield’s restaurant. You can choose to eat your meal in the restaurant overlooking the ice, or you may take your meal and “sit at the glass” on benches overlooking the games from inside the warm room area adjacent to the restaurant tables. All very close to each other. This was would be easiest to enjoy a game while you eat. It’s your choice.
The cost of the meal is on your own.
Future Trips:
PLANNING IS IN THE WORKS FOR UPCOMING TRIPS:
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Plays at the Guthrie
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Bridges of Madison County
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Science Museum of Minnesota
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Ballet in Duluth
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Light show at the Arboretum
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Sleigh Rides