MARCH-APRIL DAYTIMERS/PRIMETIMERS TRIP

ST. FRANCISVILLE: AUDUBON BRIDGE,
IMAHARA’S BOTANICAL GARDEN, OAKLEY PLANTATION
Thursday, April 5, 2012

For the next trip, we will return to St. Francisville, just up the road. The trip will start with a guided tour of the new Audubon Bridge over the Mississippi River. Many have seen pictures, some have traveled over the bridge, but this time you get a guided tour by an expert to explain the details. Then, we go to the new Imahara’s Botanical Garden, a multi-million dollar project. We will have a guided tour here, also. Our April date should “hopefully” get us there just during the height of azalea season. They have over 3,000 azaleas, weeping redbuds and much more. Not only do we get a tour of the Botanical Garden but also we get a family history. Then, lunch, our ever popular past-time. We will have a picnic lunch at the picnic pavilion (under cover) at Oakley Plantation followed by another guided tour, this time of Oakley Plantation. Most know that this is the home where Audubon, himself, worked.

Cost: $40 per person. Schedule: 7:45-8:00 Load Bus at St. John’s United Methodist Church; 8:00-8:45 to St. Francisville; 8:45-9:45 Tour Audubon Bridge; 9:45-10:00 to Imahara’s Botanical Garden; 10:00-12:00 Tour Imahara’s; 12:00-3:30 To Oakley, Lunch at Oakley, and Guided Tour of Oakley Plantation; 3:30-4:30 Return to St. John’s.

To Register: For UUMC, St. Paul’s Lutheran and other than St. John’s, contact Carol Calhoun, 769-3243, by Saturday, March 24. If spaces remain, there will also be a sign-up during the fellowship times on Sunday, March 25. For St. John’s, contact Tequila Greene, Administrative Assistant at St. John’s, 766-4594, by Thursday, March 22. Because of the large cost of reserving the bus and other expenses, once you commit to go, there can be no refunds.