6:30 am depart Mukwonago Park & Ride / 7:15 am depart St. Mary ~ Hales Corners
10:00 am breakfast at Original House of Pancakes - Orland Park, Illinois CHOOSE … buttermilk pancakes, meat lovers skillet, Irish omelet or strawberry crepes.
NOTE: we will lose an hour as we change time zones ...
2:30 pm pie at Crane’s Pie Pantry Restaurant & Winery - Fennville, Michigan. Family run since 1972. Your pie choices are ... apple, blueberry, cherry or rhubarb raspberry.
4:00 Tulip Immersion Gardens. Enjoy 65,000 flowers, learn about the history of the tulip and how it came to West Michigan. Also discover the fine, hand-painted, blue and white artwork known as Delft.
5:00 dinner at Bowerman’s Blueberry Farm Market. In the family since 1954 and encompassing more than 90 acres. Buffet to include Blueberry Pulled Pork sandwich or Chicken Salad Croissant.
7:00 Arrive at the Country Inn - Holland, Michigan. They will be our host for the next three nights.
Tuesday, May 7th / 7:45 am breakfast at Country Inn
8:45 depart / 9:00 our step-on tour guide will share information about Holland’s culture, founding, history and continued growth.
11:30 lunch & style show. Enjoy a traditional Dutch meal while the famous Dutch Dancers perform their klompen dance in Dutch costumes and wooden shoes.
1:30 to 3:30 shopping
4:00 dinner at Boatwerks. Buffet to include soup, salad, braised beef, roasted marble potatoes, vegetables, sauerkraut mashed potatoes and dessert.
7:00 Performance of “On Golden Pond”. The story of Ethel and Norman Thayer and the 48th return to their beloved summer home.
9:30 return to Country Inn
Wednesday, May 8th / 7:30 depart for breakfast at Bowerman’s Blueberry Farm Market. To include a variety of quiche, fruit salads and sweet treats.
9:00 tour Holland Bowl Mill
11:30 lunch cruise from Lake Macatawa to Lake Michigan aboard the Holland Princess ~ an old-fashioned Victorian-style paddlewheel boat. Buffet lunch includes Croissant sandwiches, fresh fruit, apple walnut salad, and cheesecake.
2:00 enjoy the Windmill Gardens. 36 acres, 150,000 tulips, exhibits and the last working windmill allowed to leave the Netherlands in 1964.
4:00 enjoy a delicious chicken dinner. / 5:30 arrive at Hope College to enjoy the American Legion Concert. 7:30 return to Country Inn.
Thursday, May 9th - 7:00 am load bags / 7:30 depart
8:00 breakfast at the Wooden Shoe Restaurant. CHOOSE from scrambled eggs with American fries OR Belgian waffle OR ham & cheese Omelet.
9:00 a little shopping at the Wooden Shoe Antique Mall
10:30 time spent at DeKlomp Wooden Shoe Factory
1:00 say good-bye to Holland, Michigan
1:30 Dune Buggy Ride at Saugatuck Dune Rides. Experience the Lake Michigan shoreline from a new vantage point!
3:15 dinner and wine at Vineyard 2121. Thank you Kathy and Jerry for the suggestion! CHOOSE from … ham & cheese panini, OR pulled pork sandwich OR Italian beef sandwich.
5:00 head back to Wisconsin and regain the hour we lost!
8:00 return to St. Mary / 8:30 return to Mukwonago Park & Ride