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2024 Trip/Event News
Last updated April 22, 2024
UPCOMING TRIPS
Click on the name of the trip to view the flyer or brochure for that trip. Click on the names of the Hosts for the trip to send them an email for more information OR to sign up for the trip.
2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Directors: Rae Miller & Mary Jane Vines
Cost: $80.00 pp for school and bus . $15.00 pp for bus only.
Sharpen your cooking skills at the state-of-the-art culinary studio. The KITCHEN mixes culinary arts, cuisine and fun within a unique educational and social dining experience.
BST Annual Picnic
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Hosts: Sandra Bostrom and BST Board of Directors
Cost: $30.00
Time: 11 a.m. Activities begin - Bingo, Cake Walk, and Corn Hole Toss. Lunch will be at noon. Enjoy
Fried Chicken, Pulled Pork, Beans, Potato Salad,
rolls. Peach Cobbler with ice cream - tea, water, lemonade, coffee
Signup at BST meetings or mail check to:
Sandra Bostrom, 410 Rothley Ave, Fairhope, AL 366532
Need volunteers to bring cakes for cake walk. Please contact Sandra.
Alaska Discovery Land and Cruise
May 15-26, 2024
Directors: Carol Balch and Susan Ames
Cost: $5099/double - $7699/single. Travel protection is an additional $599/per person
https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/116551
Cuba! #2
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Directors: Frida Schnitzler and Alan Carrio (251)-554-3507, fscarrio@yahoo.com
Cost: $36.00 per person
CUBA! Join us as we take the trolley from Spanish Fort to downtown Mobile for the Cuba! exhibition at the Exploreum. Explore Cuba’s natural history, diverse ecosystems, history, traditions, and culture with this show organized by the American Museum of Natural History. Included will be an accompanying IMAX film. After the visit, we will have a late lunch at Roosters Latin American Food (on your own) and a trolley tour of downtown Mobile, a sister city to Havana, Cuba. Maximum of 30 people!
12:30 pickup at Rouses in Spanish Fort (only pickup location)
1:00-3:00 Exploreum and IMAX film
3:00-4:30 Rooster’s Latin American Food
4:30-5:30 trolley tour of Mobile
5:30 return to Spanish Fort
Brigadoon At Chickasaw Theater
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Directors: Rae Miller and Mary Jane Vines
Cost: $45.00
Leaving from Target in Daphne at 1:00 p.m.,
Rouses in Spanish Fort at 1:20 p.m.
Two modern-day New Yorkers, on a hunting trip in the highlands of Scotland, stumble across an enchanted village, living two centuries in the past. One finds only the humor in the quirky people and customs; the other finds love — love so strong it can bridge the centuries. This magical story is alive with music and dance and romance.
Airbus Tour & Flight Works Tour
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Directors: Sandra Bostrom and Jackie Calhoun
Cost: $ 59.00 (Bus and Tour)
Location: Mobile, AL
Tour world renowned Airbus Flight Works in Mobile Brookley complex to see how these awesome airplanes are designed, assembled and tested prior to delivery. Approximately 2 hour tour of the exhibit gallery and final assembly facility. Airbus requires a copy of your Drivers License prior to taking the tour - Please submit a copy with your check for the tour. No open toed shoes allowed.
Blue Angels Practice on the Pensacola Bay Ferry Cruise
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Directors: Denise Day and Tena Kilgore
Cost: $65.00
Pensacola Bay is the perfect place to see the famous Blue Angels practice their thrilling aerial maneuvers. With the Naval Air Station location right on the bay, viewers can enjoy an unobstructed vantage point of their aerobatic skills from the Ferry! The Ferries offer many amenities such as A/C, restrooms and seating both inside and up top. After our Ferry ride, we will stop for lunch at McGuires Irish Pub (Lunch is on your own).
July 6-14, 2024
Directors: Rae Miller and Mary Jane Vines
Cost: $5049 double / $5349 single
Sweden pre-trip $889 dbl / $1199 single
Iceland post-trip $1,149 dbl /$1749 single
Trip Insurance is $449 per person and is required
Highlights: Oslo, Fram Museum, Stave Church, Flåm Railway, Sognefjord, Briksdal Glacier, Geirangerfjord Cruise, Bergen
https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1163315
Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat
Alabama Shakespeare Theater - Montgomery, Alabama
Sunday July 28, 2024
Directors: Carol Balch and Susan Ames
Matinee: 2:00 p.m.
Price: $134.00
Join hosts Susan Ames and Carol Balch for a trip to the Alabama Shakespeare Theater to see the humorous retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph, his 11 brothers, his father, Jacob, and the coat of many colors. We will depart from the Daphne Target parking lot at 10:00 a.m. with a short stop at Priester’s Pecans. A boxed lunch from Newk’s Restaurant will be provided on the bus on the way to the theater. Dinner will be at Nanny’s Restaurant after the show, and we will return to Daphne that evening around 8:30 p.m.
For more information contact:
Carol Balch – 251-605-4186 cwb621@netzero.com
Susan Ames – 251-656-2336 susanames48@yahoo.com
Mobile Bay and the Eastern Shore Cruise
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Cost: $42.00
Directors: Denise Bryant and Nancy Mason
Experience a unique look at beautiful Mobile Bay and the scenic Eastern Shore on this relaxing three-hour voyage past the charming waterside towns of Spanish Fort, Daphne, Montrose, and Fairhope and on to the historic Middle Bay Lighthouse. All this is from the comfort of the Delta Explorer a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed boat that features bench seating and a restroom facility. After the cruise, you have the option of joining us for lunch at the Oyster House on the Causeway - Lunch is own your own.
Greece Island Hopper
September 25 - October 5, 2024
Cost: $4949 double/ $6249 single
Trip Insurance is $449 per person and is required
Directors: Frida Schnitzler and Alan Carrio
11 days and 14 meals. Highlights: Athens, Taverna Dinner Show, Acropolis, The Parthenon, Mykonos Old Town, Santorini Island, Oia Village, Ancient Akrotiri, Wine Tasting
https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1163609
Spotlight on Boston
“Enjoy Fall in Boston”
October 17-21, 2024
Directors: Denise Day and Tena Kilgore
Cost:$2,699 Dbl/$3,299 single
Trip Ins is $379 (Required)
Highlights:
1 Hotel, Faneuil Hall, Beacon Hill, Lexington, Concord,
Buckman's Tavern, Harvard University, JFK Library or
Architectural Walking Tour of Boston
https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1245178
December 5-11, 2024 NEW SPOTS AVAILABLE as of 4/19/24
Directors: Rae Miller and Mary Jane Vines
Cost: $2,999 Double / $3,599 Single / $2,969 Triple
Booking made after 6-6-2024, call for rates
Come with us to get in the spirit of Christmas while visiting the highlights of London: Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Christmas Markets, Covent Gardens, Traditional English Tea, Oxford, Blenheim Palace, Tower of London.
For more information call (251) 604-2313 or visit
https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1256875
2025
NORWEGIAN “GETAWAY” out of New Orleans
January 5 – 12, 2025
Directors: Sandra Bostrom and Fred Bostrom
Balcony Cabins only *ONLY HAVE 19 CABINS (NO plane – just short bus ride)
Cost: $1,261.80 –Dbl**/$2,193.60 Sgl **
(**$85.00 pp – Gulf Coast Travel bus from Daphne Target parking lot to New Orleans Cruise Terminal and return to Daphne - PAID BY CHECK TO BST)
$250.00 Deposit paid by Charge Card to NCL – Final by August 1, 2024
Plus Travel Insurance which is based on passenger’s age ($88 to $218 usually)
*IF you want to choose the Unlimited Drinks & Specialty (2) Dinner Package the Gratuity charge is $172.40 pp – Both people in cabin must participate
This would bring cruise total to $ 1,434.20 pp double occupancy
Link for online registration set up for Baldwin Senior Travelers with NCL
Itinerary: Visit three (3) Countries - Costa Maya, Mexico; Harvest Caye, Belize; Roatan, Honduras; Cozumel, Mexico. Cruise includes: WIFI, $50 Excursion credit each cabin per port & $100.00 per cabin for onboard credit for spa or purchases onboard.
SANDRA & FRED BOSTROM – 410 ROTHLEY AV, Fairhope, al 36532
May 6-14, 2025 (9 days --13 meals)
Directors: Rae Miller and Mary Jane Vines
Cost: $3,999 Double / $4,999 Single / $3,949 Triple
Booking made after 11-6-2024 call for rates
Highlights: Chicago- Millennium Park - Frederik - Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park - Mackinac Island Grand Hotel - Frankenmuth Henry Ford Museum - Greenfield Village
For more information call (251) 604-2313
https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1240663