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July Tours

Orca Whale Safari on the Mystic Sea
Date: 2013-07-01 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $119.00
Includes:Transportation & Cruise (Snack Bar on Boat)
The Mystic Sea departs from the waterfront town of Anacortes and heads west through Guemes Channel, into the San Juan Islands. Usually within 30 minutes we will get the latest reports on the whales. The San Juan Islands are home to 90+ Orca Whales. Also keep an eye out for Minke Whales, Gray Whales, Humpback Whales, Dall's Porpoise, Harbour Seals, Steller Sea Lions and Bald Eagles. The Mystic Sea is a 100 ft, passenger vessel, with shaded aft deck and excellent inside and outside viewing areas for your comfort....
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

Baseball, Fireworks & Hot Dogs!
Date: 2013-07-03 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $69.00
Includes:Transportation, Game Admission & Meal
Celebrate Fourth of July early with Discovery Tours at the newly renovated Cheney Stadium. It is an old fashioned day of baseball, fireworks and a traditional ballpark snack with hot dog, chips and soda. You will have stunning views of the ballpark and Mt. Rainier from our lower level seats. The Tacoma Rainiers were 2010 Pacific Coast Champions and the action on the field promises to keep you on the edge of your seat. When the sun goes down their largest fireworks display of the season and you will have unobstructed views! Pickups will take place in Chehalis, Olympia and Tacoma...
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

Independence Day in Seaside...Parade, BBQ Dinner and Fireworks
Date: 2013-07-04 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $289.00
Includes:Transportation, 1 Night Hotel, Independence Day Parade, Salmon BBQ Dinner, Reserved Viewing Area at the Fireworks, Cannon Beach Stroll, Breakfast
The charming village of Seaside, Oregon goes all out for the Fourth of July and what better way than to spend it at the beach. On arrival we will park the bus on the parade route. You can watch from the bus or on the sidewalk. Then attend the community social with music, entertainment and food vendors. Check in at the Holiday Inn Express Seaside, just a block from downtown shops. In the evening join us at the beach for a huge fireworks display over the water. Discovery will host a NW salmon BBQ dinner before the show. Day two enjoy a late check out from the hotel and then travel down to Cannon Beach where you will have three hours to stroll the beach, shop for treasures and lunch on your own....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: Book Now

Lake Union 4th of July Cruise, Locks & Dinner at Shilshoe Bay Marina
Date: 2013-07-04 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $149.00
Includes:Transportation, 4 Course Dinner & Fireworks Show
This amazing Independence Day Fireworks display happens over Lake Union as hundreds of shells fill the air with spectacular designs by some of the country’s best pyrotechnics. We have chartered an Argosy boat to take an intimate group out on the lake for prime viewing of the show. Your evening will start with a delicious 4-course dinner at Anthony’s Homeport on Shilshoe Bay Marina with views of boats coming in for the event. The boat has a large open viewing deck so you’ll have the best seats on the lake for the show! Pickups will be located in Chehalis, Olympia, Tacoma and Federal Way...
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

Fireworks over the Columbia River... Parade & Spirit of Portland Dinner Cruise
Date: 2013-07-04 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $298.00
Includes:Transportation, 1 Night Hotel, Ridgefield Independ- ence Day Parade and Salmon BBQ, Spirit of Portland Dinner Cruise to See Fireworks, Late Check Out & Breakfast
Travel south the Ridgefield for a hometown 4th of July festival. They have a patriotic parade and after a really delicious salmon BBQ in the park. There is Vendors and Entertainment, yet it maintains a small town feel. Check into your hotel for an overnight stay and enjoy a reception with beverage along with hot and cold snacks. This evening board the Spirit of Portland for a dinner cruise to see the Fireworks over the Columbia, one of the largest in the Pacific NW. Enjoy a buffet breakfast, late check out before heading home....
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

Glacier Park, Canadian Rockies & Calgary Stampede with Chuckwagon Races, Rodeo & Evening Spectacular
Date: 2013-07-07 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $1898.00
Includes:Transportation on company owned motor coach, 8 Nights 3 to 4 Star Hotel, Daily activities, 9 Meals, Discovery Tours Host
Transportation on company owned motor coach, 8 Nights 3 to 4 Star Hotel, Daily activities such as Glacier National Park Tour by Historic Red Jammer, Buffalo Jump Interpretive Center, Kettle Valley Steam Train Western Robbery & BBQ, Rodeo & Country Music Dinner Theater and much more , 9 Meals and Discovery Tours Host...
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: New

“Crimes of the Heart” A Tale of the South & Lunch at the Old Church
Date: 2013-07-07 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $89.00
Includes:Transportation, Show Tickets & Lunch
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to not to fall in love. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future-but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. Lunch before the show in a beautiful restored church turned charming cafe....
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

Jet Boating the Rogue River... Summer BBQ Lunch at OK Corral & Seven Feathers
Date: 2013-07-08 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $349.00
Includes:Deluxe Transportation, 2 Nights Seven Feathers Resort Jet Boat Ride, Ok Corral BBQ Lunch, Safari, 3 Meals
Travel down to Seven Feathers Resort. At check-in you’ll receive two meal vouchers for $5.00 a piece to be used towards dinner tonight and tomorrow. In the afternoon depart to Grants Pass, for a 4- hour excursion that whisk you down the Rogue to Hellgate Canyon and on the return trip stops at the O.K. Corral for a lunch you’ll not soon forget. First, we’ll begin with the Relish Tray, then Tossed Green Salad with our famous homemade Honey-Mustard Dressing. Piping hot homemade Corn Bread and Ranch-Hand Biscuits accompany our own country-style Barbecued Chicken and potato salad. Topped off with Dessert and Beverages include Iced Tea, Lemonade, Hot Tea and Coffee, soon you’ll be crying “Enough!” This trip is a feast for the eyes and the appetite. On our return home drive through the wildlife safari and lunch on your own at the Lancaster Mall....
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

San Juan Island Cruise & Friday Harbor
Date: 2013-07-09 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $59.00
Includes:Transportation & Ferry Ride
Enjoy a beautiful summer day cruising through the San Juan Islands on the Washington State Ferry. Our coach will transfer you to Anacortes where you will board the ferry by foot. Arrive in Friday Harbor with ample time for shopping, strolling the town and lunch on your own. You will be provided walking maps of the town. We return by ferry for the Mainland. (times are TBA until schedule is out)...
	Activity: Moderate	Status: New

Sisters Quilt Show, Bend Sunset Quilt Stroll & Oregon Quilt Shop Hop ... It’s a Quilters Dream!
Date: 2013-07-12 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $298.00
Includes:Transportation, 2 Nights Bend, Sisters Quilt Show, Oregon Quilt Shop Hop, Fat Quarter Bingo, 4 Quilt Shops on Our Hop, 2 Breakfasts, 1 Lunch
Our first stop this year is to The Pine Needle. They have kits for every level of experience and the store is beautifully organized. On our drive to Bend play some Fat Quarter Bingo. Check into the our Bend hotel for a two night stay. Take a sunset Quilt Stroll of beautiful downtown Bend and enjoy over 100 quilts displayed in local shops and have dinner on your own (this is optional).Day two board our morning shuttle to the Sisiters Quilt Show where you’ll have a full day to explore. Over 1200 quilts from around the world will cover this charming 1880'sstyle town in rich texture and color. This evening enjoy a special shopping shuttle to BJ’s Quilt Basket. In the morning it’s early shopping at Sew Many Quilts before heading through Mt Hood with a stop for lunch. Finish at Fabric Depot in Portland where we have arranged a special discount for our members. They are in a warehouse covering 73,000 square fee and the quilting section alone has over 8000 bolts, and 1000+ books and patterns, so you will need all of the three hours of shopping time given to find that special fabric....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: Limited Space

Two of Portland Best... Saturday Market & PSU Farmers Market, Over 200 Booths!
Date: 2013-07-13 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $49.00
Includes:Transportation, Shopping and Fun
The Portland Saturday Market is the largest outdoor arts and crafts market in continuous operation in the United States. Stroll down row upon row of local handcrafted items and homemade foods. It is the nation’s largest open air crafts market. In operation for 25 years, it prides itself on selling products by the people who made them. What is about Portland’s that makes them perfect for produce and fantastic farmers' markets? This market caters to foodies at Portland State University's parking lot. A typical Saturday boasts nearly 200 growers and farmers selling local delights like raspberries, yak meat, a wide variety of mushrooms, local beers and olive oil....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: Book Now

Oregon Coast Scenic Train Ride & Historic Camp 18 Lunch
Date: 2013-07-15 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $79.00
Includes:Transportation, Train Ride & Lunch
Camp 18 is the sturdiest restaurant in the West. A log cabin building the size of a train terminal! It features a main room supported by what the owners believe to be the largest known ridge pole in the United States: twenty five tons and five thousand board-feet of lumber. On the walls are massive lumbering saws and old photographs of lumberjacks at work. The air smells of cut wood and cobbler cooking. Discovery Tours will host lunch and you’ll have time to explore the gift shop and antique logging equipment. Then continue to Rock-Away Beach where you will board the Oregon Scenic Train t0 Garibaldi round-trip. You’ll have a 30 minute lay-over and if your stomach can handle it, try a local ice cream cone!...
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: Available

Lewis and Clark at Fort Clatsop & Cape Disappointment Lighthouse
Date: 2013-07-17 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $79.00
Includes:Transportation, Lunch, Two Historic Sites
Fort Clatsop was the winter encampment for the Corps of discovery from December 1805 to March 1806. The visitor center includes a fort, interpretive center and an orientation film. Break for an SST lunch (Soup, Salad and Garlic Toast) at Dooger’s famous for their NW clam chowder. Continue to the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center at Cape Disappointment with outstanding views of the Pacific and the lighthouse....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: New

Willamette Falls, the New Frontier River Cruise on the Portland Spirit
Date: 2013-07-18 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $89.00
Includes:Transportation, Lunch Cruise, Fully Narrated
The Northwest's largest waterfall (42 feet high and 1500 feet wide) is the destination of this three and one half hour historical cruise on one of the elegant Portland Spirit ships to Oregon City, the oldest incorporated city west of the Rockies. This portion of the Willamette River was originally known as the "Willamt" to the hundreds of migrating Native Americans who came each year to fish for salmon at the Hyas Tye Tumwater, which we now call the Willamette Falls. Enjoy a Pacific Northwest plated lunch, coffee, tea and gratuity included. During the cruise listen to a narrative of this scenic cruise to yet another Pacific Northwest wonder....
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

Portland Highland Games
Date: 2013-07-20 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $69.00
Includes:Transportation & Admission
The Portland Highland Games includes the NW’s largest display of Scottish Highland music, dancing, piping and drumming competition, athletics, and cultural activities. We arrive for the Welcome Ceremony that includes the Parade of Clans. During the day view the Caber Toss, hear the Pipe Bands and watch the dance competitions. Scottish Highland dancing is one of the oldest forms of folk dance dating back to the 11th or 12th century. Of all the Highland Dancing events in which the competitors vie, the reels are the closest approach to social dancing. We depart until after the 5:30pm Closing Ceremony....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: Book Now

Anacortes Shipwreck Days a Citywide Flea Market
Date: 2013-07-20 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $49.00
Includes:Transportation & Fun (early bird gets the worm)
The Shipwreck Day Flea Market is an annual event in Anacortes, featuring 8 city blocks in downtown filled with junque, antiques, collectible, tools and all kinds of treasure. It’s a bargain hunters dream for urban pirates! Have lunch on your own...
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: New

Darrington Bluegrass Festival & Buffet Dinner
Date: 2013-07-21 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $159.00
Includes:Transportation, 1 Night Gaming Resort, Bluegrass Festival Admission, Breakfast & Dinner Voucher
Our customers reviews say “Wish there was a way to let fellow travelers know what they missed” and “The Darrington Bluegrass Festival was magnificent” . The outdoor festival has great tiered seating with the beautiful mountains in the background. There are food vendors and a whole lot of toe tappin music. This year we will be at the festival from 11:30am to 5:30pm. Then check into your Gaming Resort and enjoy a buffet dinner, hot gaming action, really comfy beds, late check-out and breakfast....
	Activity: Easy	Status: New

Jet Boating the Rogue River... Summer BBQ Lunch at OK Corral & Seven Feathers Casino
Date: 2013-07-22 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $349.00
Includes:Deluxe Transportation, 2 Nights Seven Feathers, Jet Boat Ride, Ok Corral BBQ Lunch, Safari, 3 Meals
Travel down to Seven Feathers Hotel. At check-in you’ll receive two meal vouchers for $5.00 a piece to be used towards dinner tonight and tomorrow. In the afternoon depart to Grants Pass, for a 4-hour excursion that whisk you down the Rogue to Hellgate Canyon and on the return trip stops at the O.K. Corral for a lunch you’ll not soon forget. First, we’ll begin with the Relish Tray, then Tossed Green Salad with our famous homemade Honey-Mustard Dressing. Piping hot homemade Corn Bread and Ranch Hand Biscuits accompany our own country- style Barbecued Chicken and potato salad. Topped off with Dessert and Beverages include Iced Tea, Lemonade, Hot Tea and Coffee, soon you’ll be crying “Enough!” This trip is a feast for the eyes and the appetite. On our return home drive through the wildlife safari and lunch on your own at the Lancaster Mall. This tour always sells out fast, so don’t delay making your $50.00 deposit....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: New

“Sound of Music” Under the Stars... Leavenworth Summer Theater
Date: 2013-07-23 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $249.00
Includes:Transportation, 1 Night Hotel, Tickets to the Show, Pre-Show Dinner & Late Check Out
Travel over scenic Highway 2 to the Bavarian Village of Leavenworth. Along the way stop in Snohomish for a lunch break. The historic downtown is full of cafes, antiques and specialty shops and stop at Deception Falls. Check into the Enzian Inn just a couple blocks from the main shopping area and Gazebo park where artist display their paintings. You will have tickets to “Sound of Music” of music under the stars. Maria is a sweet young postulant whose love of freedom makes it obvious to her superiors that she is not suited for religious life. Thus, she is sent off to be the governess to Captain von Trapp's seven troublesome children. Maria becomes friends with the children due to their mutual love of music and soon, even the strict Captain begins to admire Maria. Top this all off with a daytrip to Cashmere and a BBQ dinner with hayride and you have all the makings for a great time....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: New

Loganberry Festival & Deception Pass
Date: 2013-07-27 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $59.00
Includes:Transportation, Festival & Ferry Ride
Travel to Deception Pass and stop for breathtaking views from the bridge. Continue to the annual Loganberry Festival at historic Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island, the longest island in the continental U.S. You’ll have an opportunity to taste and purchase their famous Loganberry wine along with offerings from over 15 other Puget Sound wineries. The fields will be filled with artists, artisans and craftspeople while local musicians entertain us. There will be food booths selling specialties by the island locals or lunch at the charming cafe. Finish the day with a scenic ferry ride as we return home....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: New

Brunch in Paradise & Mt Rainier Wildflowers
Date: 2013-07-28 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $79.00
Includes:Transportation, Paradise Brunch Buffet, Park Tour
Towering at over 14,000 feet, Mt Rainier is a commanding presence in our own backyard. Our tour starts with a climb up the winding roads lined with towering firs to Paradise lodge. Here a profusion of mountain wildflowers will be in bloom. A gourmet buffet Sunday Brunch will be served in the historic lodge and time allowed to explore the wildflower fields, join in an optional Ranger talk or visit the Interpretive Center. We will return with a stop at Narin Falls....
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: New

Steilacoom Salmon Bake & Lakewold Gardens
Date: 2013-07-28 (Year-Month-Day)
Price: $69.00
Includes:Transportation, Tour & Salmon Bake
This Sunnyside Beach Salmon Bake features delectably grilled salmon complemented with clam nectar, fresh fruit pies and live entertainment. Following the event we will continue to Lakewold Garden. A Washington State historic landmark, Lakewold's Georgian-style mansion and historic architecture complete the 10 acres where you’ll step back in time to an elegant past with a narrated docent guided tour and free time for the gift shop. Be sure to watch for unique blue poppies!...
	Activity: Comfortable	Status: Book Now

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